Labor Group Condemns Sweatshop Crucifixes

AP:

With Christmas just weeks away, a labor group on Tuesday denounced "horrific" sweatshop conditions where crucifixes are made in China to be sold at religious gift shops in the United States.

Charles Kernaghan, director of the National Labor Committee, held a news conference in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral to call attention to conditions at a factory in Dongguan City where the religious objects, sold in St. Patrick's gift shop, are made.

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Comments

[Mike169]

While Jesus was castigating the rich with "eye of the needle" like threats, his vicars on earth cozied up to the money. You can't even buy a freaking crucifix made in the US anymore. St. Pat's now has a sign above the door that states it is a subsidiary of Wal Mart. That would explain the Chinese crucifixes.

[realitytrumpsbull]

I used to work in a shop, and I think everyone
sweated there at one time or another, from
the smell, but no one cried about it. If
you want a lot of crucifixes, then go buy
a metal stamping machine that will press them
out of sheet metal or something, and then
you stand there at the end of the conveyor
at the burnishing machine, and as you finish
each one then you drop them on the other
conveyor so they can go be packaged. Or,
or, automate the entire thing and you just
stand there and provide quality control
with a donut in your mouth and a cup of
coffee. Just don't spill the coffee into
the machine, you know? LOL