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37,000 transnational or multinational corporations with their 200,000 subsidiaries control 75 percent of all world trade in commodities, manufactured goods, and services. These corporations, such as Nike, Reebok, and Levi’s, are cheating other small countries that manufacture their products. Michael Jordan alone makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. An individual works 10-hour shifts, six days a week to earn a monthly wage less than the cost of …

…work 10-14 hours a day, and get underpaid. I can barely live off of forty dollars a week, little alone forty dollars a month. These people barely have enough money to have somewhere to live and put food on the table. It’s a reality check for me! I think that organizations need to be formed to help these third world workers, who are overworked and underpaid, to get higher wages and less working hours.