Workers' Rights My Thoughts

The article Don't Buy Nike by Natalie Nold has an interesting issue that was being argued about. It talked about how workers in Indonesia were being physically harmed in many ways. In 2011, Steven Wright of The Associated Press reported physical and mental abuse in Nike factories. Workers were being kicked, slapped, getting shoes thrown at them, and were forced to stand under the hot sun rays for making mistakes in their job. I feel that this type of abuse is non-tolerated for me because if I were a worker from Indonesia I wouldn't appreciate how they treat me. I learned that the people who have jobs should appreciate that they actually have a job that follows the rules of the Human Rights because many, like in the article, do not have very good ones. 

The poem expressed how a worker feels everyday in the life of a sweatshop. The worker expresses that she/he is feeling as if they were a machine. In the article it says that she/he had no feelings, no thoughts, nor understanding. I think the poem was different from the article because the poem was talking first person saying how they felt and the article was explained by a non-worker and was saying what was going on in the sweatshops. I was able to understand the poem better because it used specific feelings and it also used many metaphors which is easily comprehended better put together.