Discuss how the following rights could improve sweatshop conditions: joining an independent (not state-controlled) union engaging in collective bargaining with an employer conducting a legal strike (work stoppage)

Workers who have organized into unions have much more power to make changes than workers acting on their own. This power can be used through collective bargaining to negotiate improved wages and working conditions. The option of calling a legal strike, should negotiations fail, makes it much more likely that worker demands will be met.

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Workers who have organized into unions have much more power to make changes than workers acting on their own. This power can be used through collective bargaining to negotiate improved wages and working conditions. The option of calling a legal strike, should negotiations fail, makes it much more likely that worker demands will be met.

Sweatshops are work environments that possess three major characteristics—long hours, low pay, and unsafe or unhealthy working conditions. Sweatshops may also have policies that severely restrict workers' freedoms, including limiting bathroom breaks and even conversations with fellow workers. At its worst, violence is used

Against sweatshop workers. Sweatshops have been a factor in the production of goods around the world for centuries, but the globalization of business has led increasing numbers of major corporations to take advantage of low-cost sweatshop labor in developing countries. Recent examples of sweatshop conditions in the garment industry have caused an international outcry by labor leaders, activists, and government officials. Although manufacturers tend to deny it, sweatshops still exist, even in the United States.