Worker's Rights Article and Poem

In the article called Coca Cola Accused of Using Death Squad to Target Union Leader I learned that in Colombia there is a paramilitary group called AUC. This group targets unionist and labor leaders which helps Coca Cola factories get rid of them in their factories. See the Coca Cola factories organize raids in which the AUC comes in and murders, tortures and kidnaps and worker that has any association with union. According to the article a lawsuit was filed by the U.S District Court in Florida which accused the company, it's Colombian subsidiary and business affiliates of using the AUC to do these things to its workers. In my opinion I think that the lawsuit should have been field earlier. It can't be possible for no one in authority to have field a lawsuit count have known. Although I don't want to appear ungrateful because after all the lawsuit was filed and things are being taken care of but what I do want to say is that I think other companies should see this as an example. For those companies that think they can get away with things like what happened with the Coca Cola company I want them to know that this is what happens when companies like this do things like treating workers unfairly or not paying their worker's enough or not at all.  What surprised me is that Coca Cola would actually go as far as killing their own workers but not just that but they actually think that killing their workers would always be a secret.

http://colombiajournal.org/colombia73.htm


In the poem titled Simon Weil: The Year of Factory Work (1934-1935) it talks about a worker that tells how she views her job as slavery and how she works in order to eat yet she only gets enough so that she'll eat in oder to work. She talks about how she wonders whether or not god can see her and the other workers because if he could then why would he let them live like slaves. In the poem she repeatedly says "To work in order to eat, to eat in order to work." but what she eats is cabbage, bread and wine which is considered a poor people's food, well except the wine but the poem takes place in France. In the poem the narrator also says "Surely God comes to the clumsy and inefficient, to welders in dark spectacles, and unskilled.", which has to do with her wondering whether or not God is there. Reading the poem is way different from the article. The poem's narrator talks about an actual worker and the way working at a sweat shop while the article is a report talking about the companies doings and talks about the bigger picture not about what the workers are feeling. The difference helped me understand more about the worker's feelings and how they view the way they are living, I mean when someone reads the article they think "well why don't the workers just quit" but its so muck more than just quitting. If the workers were to quit they wouldn't have any money so they think little is better than nothing and anyway if they were to quit new people would always come to replace them because there is always someone that needs the money and that is desperate enough to except the job.