Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Sweatshop Assessment Blog

The argument of this article is the challenges that the workers for Coca Cola industries in Columbia are being mistreated. They have death squads threatening, harassing, and torturing, their workers. According to the article there have been 128 union workers assassinated.  "Coca-Cola Company, its Colombian subsidiary and business affiliates of using paramilitary death squads to murder, torture, kidnap and threaten union leaders at the multinational soft drink manufacturer’s Colombian bottling plants." This was one of the statements that talked about the workers of the companies. In my personal opinion I think that this is completely unacceptable. First of all, there are so many human rights being violated. Second, I think that they are approaching this situation the wrong way. They shouldn't be threatening to physically and mentally harm their workers. One of the most surprising thing about the article was that they could have used so many other ways to get under their workers skins' but they chose the most harmful ways. 


In the poem that we were the argument was about a woman who was stuck working in the SweatShops and she felt as if she was the machine and she talked about all the tough work she goes through. In the poem she described herself working as if she was a machine. The two articles were very different between each other. The Coca Cola atricle talked about their workers physically harassing and putting their workers through pain, and the poem talks about putting the lady through mental harassing.