[lbo-talk] (no subject)

[Mike Ballard]

Doug passed this article on from the:
   
  Financial Times - September 8, 2006

'Fair' coffee workers paid below minimum wage
By Hal Weitzman in Lima

"Ethical" coffee is being produced in Peru, the world's top exporter  
of Fairtrade coffee, by labourers paid less than the legal minimum  
wage. Industry insiders have also told the FT of non-certified coffee  
being marked and exported as Fairtrade, and of certified coffee being  
illegally planted in protected rainforest.

This casts doubt on the certification process used by Fairtrade and  
similar marks that require producers to pay the minimum wage.
   
  **********************************************************************
   
  Which is why I was always sus about participating in this campaign.
  Hell, Capital is a social relationship and the capitalist will always try to pay as little
  as possible for the skills and time of the workers, they employ.  Fairtrade only calls into
  question the "niceness" of this relation, not the oppostion of class interests in this
  aforementioned social relation.
   
  Regards,
  Mike B)




Read "Penguins in Bondage":
http://happystiletto.blogspot.com/
 		
---------------------------------
Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls.  Great rates starting at 1¢/min.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: ../attachments/20060909/a1eb062a/attachment.html