Arnold

**Focus Question: Why do GAP factory bosses give low pay to their workers and don't give them any rights? How can we put a stop to this?**
= GAP FACTORY WORKING CONDITIONS =

 Did it ever occur to you who made your GAP clothes? Or do you just take which ever is the best looking? Well, here I am going to tell you who makes your GAP clothes, and what those wor kers go through. I can tell you this right now it isn't pretty how the workers are treated, the workers have terrible working conditions, it can go to a simple say, for example "hurry up your so slow", to death. This is why we need to take part in this planet and help workers that are being treated like slaves with no good pay. We can solve this problem with a boycott, read and find out how you can get involved. You won't regret it.

 I think that a boycott would work against GAP factories for a couple of reasons. I have read around the world there has been harsh working conditions for GAP factory workers, and around the world people have already tried the boycott. I have read it has already worked for 3,600 factories. Those factories have made better working conditions for their workers. It has already worked for the UK. Now we have to spread the news around the world to start a boycott. Starting it by saying it somewhere small and it grows by itself to bigger and bigger places. When the company hears about the news of a boycott, they are going to try to fix it. It won't take that long until the company gives the workers back the correct rights they deserve. This is why, the company would want money so bad again they are going to try anything to get their customers back. The only way to get the customers back, is if we get what we want, factory worker rights. If we don't get what we want we still wouldn't go to GAP. So, the only solution for them is to give the factory workers better working conditions and better pay, and if they do we will shop there.(Thought of it myself) Well an example of a successful boycott is when Cesar Chavez started a boycott of terrible working conditions, low wages, and spraying toxic on the grapes. He thought it wasn't right so he started a boycott and won, then the workers got what they deserved and the grapes weren't spread with toxic. That is a good a example of boycott's really working, so now you know it is capable of the GAP boycott working.

 The other reason why we should have a boycott against GAP is because how the factory pay's their workers. I feel like the bosses of the factory are taking advantage of their workers. I think so because the workers work so hard for so long and treat them like subjects. The bosses are giving the workers little pay for so much work. I even have examples of the pay and where from the GAP factories are from. In Cambodia the workers in the factory only get paid 0.21 cents an hour. In the Dominican Republic the workers get paid 0.27 cents an hour. During the long hours with little pay they still have to deal with the abuse. The workers get abused for any little mistake to any huge mistake. For example, in Cambodian a couple of workers were on strike and the got beaten and tasered. Mostly the women were on strike because in Cambodia money they got less than a dollar. The only way to get higher pay for the workers is to start a boycott, when we win then the workers will get higher pay.

In conclusion, I think that everyone should take part in this boycott, to help the people that are being treated wrong. Open your eyes to see far beyond than just taking a shirt off a rack, think of the conditions people had to go through just to make that shirt. Don't you feel sorry or have any sympathy for these people? Now you know where your Gap clothes come from, and how the workers of factories had to deal with just to make clothes. Do you regret reading this? To take part, spread the word wherever you can and maybe there can be a real boycott against GAP, so then we win, and let workers get their rights back, better working conditions, and getting better pay. Think of the changes you can make in our planet. 

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