The U.S. Government Stopped a Minimum Wage Increase in Haiti (read more)
According to Wikileaks:
“In 2009, the Haitian parliament unanimously passed a measure that would hike the Haitian minimum wage to $5 a day.
Yet much as the United States government mobilized to protect Big Oil’s profits a few years earlier, American diplomats immediately protested the hike in wages.”
Let’s all take a moment to soak this information in. Representatives of the U.S. protests the fact that the companies profiting from a third-world country have to pay its workers a minimum wage for an entire day that most Americans work in an hour. Did you guys catch all that? If not, here’s the simple truth: America likes to fuck shit up, and nobody gives a fucking fuck.