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Related: About this forumTrump's signature clothing line made overseas/CNN ~ 30 cents per hour!? (HRC GP)
(CNN)Donald Trump may claim to have the backs of U.S. workers, but when it comes to making shirts for those backs, Trump has chosen to make his shirts overseas.
The Republican presidential candidate's campaign rhetoric starkly contrasts the practices of his own fashion business, which experts say has followed the path of many other clothing makers by jumping from country to country in search of the lowest wages and cheapest production costs.
The Republican presidential candidate's campaign rhetoric starkly contrasts the practices of his own fashion business, which experts say has followed the path of many other clothing makers by jumping from country to country in search of the lowest wages and cheapest production costs.
Shipping documents obtained by CNN show that in 2014 Trump shirts were shipped to the U.S. from a factory in Honduras, where nationally the average factory worker earns about $1.30 an hour. Even that hourly wage may have been too high for Trump's licensed manufacturer. The Honduran factory's contract ended in 2015.
That same year, shipping forms obtained by CNN show Trump shirts were being manufactured and shipped from Bangladesh, where the average factory worker makes just 33 cents an hour, according to Nova. CNN cannot determine if the people making Trump's clothing were paid a different amount or the conditions they were working under.
That same year, shipping forms obtained by CNN show Trump shirts were being manufactured and shipped from Bangladesh, where the average factory worker makes just 33 cents an hour, according to Nova. CNN cannot determine if the people making Trump's clothing were paid a different amount or the conditions they were working under.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/26/politics/trump-clothing-foreign-made/index.html
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Trump's signature clothing line made overseas/CNN ~ 30 cents per hour!? (HRC GP) (Original Post)
Her Sister
May 2016
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Her Sister
(6,444 posts)1. No wonder @realDonaldTrump wants to abolish the minimum wage.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)2. 30 cents is all they deserve because the aren't going to make America great
I heard he's going to give them a ball cap as a bonus.
Light63
(233 posts)3. Everyone knows it!
However when Trump criticized companies moving their businesses oversea, corporate media, though knows about the existence of his oversea companies, never has had the nerve to question his hypocrisy.
But they have no problem of going after Hillary, even a little thing!
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)5. He has lied so many times he does not know the truth. People goes to
Comedy clubs and laugh, and he isn't a good comic. The more I see of him the less I like.
Cha
(297,935 posts)4. Yeah, he's such a tool.