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74. Here is the problem

Corporations will NOT do it. In fact, apple is the worst in this regard. Not by much, mind you...right on it's heels are ypte Microsoft and Dells of the world.

What we need are tariffs. We need to enforce, at the international level treaties, that require minimum standards of labor. Yes, they are in treaties, where we can pay lip service to them.

It is time to look away from the companies and pressure congress. You do business in a country that violates minimum labor standards regularly, such as long days, no ventilation, and no union organizing, you get hit at the border with punitive tariffs, while we also tell the host government clean up your act.

Even our worst right to work-for less state, has better protections than the best Chinese or Bangladeshi or Indian factory. This is globalization at play. We saw the leading edge of this with the bad boy of the 1980s in the Phillipines, that be Intel. There are reasons Intel moved it's factories to China as well. Yup, the Phillipines started enforcing labor laws, no, not kidding.

And as far as electronics is concerned, there are national security reasons those plants shoud be moved to the US as well.