Wal-Marts: Sometimes Equal Rights, Always

At any given time in today's media, you might hear about Wal-Marts current class action lawsuit that is being held against them in the supreme court. Wal-Mart has been allegedly discriminating women in the workplace. not offering the women pay raises and promotion opportunities. You might wonder why Wal-Mart would do such a thing like this. I feel they do this because they honestly believe that they can get away with such actions. And why not, the current lawsuit against them that is currently in the Supreme Court has taken over ten years to process. According to plaintiff Edith Arana on what keeps the women going on in this fight against the corporate giant, "I know what happened to me and it's not just me. The women of this lawsuit are the poster children for the all the women who couldn't do this, and they each have families and names and faces."

To Me, this whole issue should never have started in the first place. Thanks to the Equal Rights Amendment which passed in 1923, all men and woman are given equal rights in all aspects of life, including the workplace. This lawsuit will not only determine if Wal-Mart has discrimination against Edith Arana, but also an entire class of workers. Wal-Mart should never have gone so far to try to discriminate against these woman. Hopefully now they will pay the price for doing so in this supreme court class action lawsuit

Corporations Providing For The Little Guy

With the employment rate the way it is today people are desperately searching for a new job. However new jobs aren't always there to be taken. But in some countries new jobs have been steadily coming in for decades. These jobs are often brought to the poorer, less economically strong countries in the form of sweatshops. BUT WAIT! Aren't sweatshops bad? Don't they pay way to little to be considered livable wages? We'll in a way yes, but no. Yes they aren't typically safe environments to work in. They have countless flaws but they do bring in one heavy pro to a sea of cons. They bring in money for the poor. The people that take these jobs in these filthy factories are typically poorer than even the Americas poorest could imagine. When these new factories are opened up they provide the workers with money, something that many of which have lived with very little of. When giving these poor people money, it not only helps them, but it also helps the countries economy in which they are based in. Giving economic support in turn helps not only the countries economy but the world economy. This allows for more goods to be moved around and purchased and provided new relationships with other countries economic structure. So when ever you hear about a new corporation being found to have sweatshops provided much of its goods to be sold in America, just remember, yes they do often work in harsh conditions. But these sweatshops have helped provide that country and its people with a better economy.

The Cancer of America

It was one week ago from today that I found out that my grandmother has cancer. When I got the news an overwhelming feeling came over me and I immediately wept. In the middle of hundreds of students I couldn't even hold back the flowing tears or control my shaky voice while on the phone with my mother. In fact just typing this down on this keyboard, for me, is a battle in itself. But not near the battle that my grandmother with be facing as she fights to get rid of her deadly disease. Soon after I found out that right after she left the doctors office my grandmother went straight to work. After hearing this I was in absolute aw. How could you manage to pull yourself together enought to go back to work. Then it made me wonder and I came to the conclusion that she isn't just ignoring the fact that she has cancer, but that she wants to continue the life that she is living and won't let her cancer get in the way. In a sort of paradoxical way, I decided that I should blog about how America is like a healthy body and some corporations are like the cancer that weaken that body.

Since its establishment, America has become a growing body. America has become a world leader in trade and commerce, as well as establishing foreign aid and democracy. But as many bodies go through their development, they produce a few bad cells, or business. And as these bodies continue to develop, these bad cells continue to grow as well, until they are large enough to be considered a possible threat to the very life of the body, in the same way that these businesses begin to grow larger and larger, they reach the status of a corporation. These corporations begin to put a drain on the countries economy and weaken it until the country eventually collapses. These actions have proven to be very deadly as the large banks drained more and more money until the country couldn't hold up any more and America plunged into a great depression. Now it seems as if history is repeating itself in a new form of cancer. These corporations keep growing just as cancer is always spreading throughout the body, and it's giving nothing back. So now its time to fight back, to fight back against these deadly diseases that plague our body and go through treatments of therapy, and in terms of Americas economy pass new laws that give less power to these corporate giants and stand up for small businesses and give them the breaks that they deserve. These corporations have hurt our body of America for way to long and actions have to be taken now, with deep consideration of what might come if we do nothing. I just hope that action is taken soon, before its to late.