vietnam is going to do this or sharia law. do we deserve that? do american workers in factories every day and the manufacturing sectors and also in the service sector of our economy do they deserve that? absolutely. we re not getting it. and the members of congress get it. they should not give the president the trade promotional authority. the first thing he ll do is tpp. for more let me bring in charles, the director of the national labor committee. jim is with us and lori director of public citizens global trade watch. great to have you with us. charlie, you first, if we can. what are these nike workers facing in vietnam and what guarantee could you give our viewing audience tonight if we do the tpp their conditions will
don t understand how people can kill themselves in this place. it s a great place to be. so you get shown a fake thing. so we have to look at the the testimony of chinese people sent there undercover by groups like the national labor committee. if you read the national labor committee report, the people who work there regard it as a prison. one of the first things the investigators were told is a teenager came up to him and said we are like prisoners here. we re like livestock. we re not treated like workers. what is basically happening in the factories is that we, you and me, are shopping until they drop. look at one guy who didn t kill himself. he died in may. he was 27 years old. he worked there a long time. never had any problems. his job was to turn a notch that went into the ipad. the iphone that your viewers own. he worked 35-hour shifts.