One corporation that has refused to pay the extra penny is Burger King, despite the fact that it would cost them only $250,000 annually , its competitors have agreed to do it, and for workers it's the difference between a sub-poverty wage that hasn't been raised in twenty years a …

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Before you drink coffee and tea, keep these tips in mind: 1. Think Local Brew Seek out the coffee and tea that have traveled the least distance to reach you and also aim at supporting local, independent farms, cafés, and roasters.

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Hartford-based Center for Reflection, Education and Action (CREA), established in 1995, had produced impressive reports on miserable wages and working conditions in Haiti and Mexico, and I soon assigned them to students in my course on global sweatshops.

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"If there was any doubt in the past, Starbucks now has made clear its anti-worker intentions," said the union's General Counsel, Stuart Lichten, of Schwartz, Lichten, and Bright. "The company is violating one bedrock labor rights principle after another."

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