Finals and AP Week

Good luck with AP Exams and Finals everyone! Go Falcons!

I will be back after the summer with more content about labor rights! Until then, feel free to reach out to me through email and I will get back to you shortly.

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Do you think you have an equal chance in the workforce?

Hello everyone! We have asked several students what they think of their chances in the workforce. More specifically, whether they believed their job opportunities were limited based on the color of their skin. For privacy and anonymity, no names will be specified. Noteworthy responses #1: There may be limitations if I'm not good at my job but I don't know about my skin color exactly. To be honest, even though I'm a minority, I don't think I've experienced racism. I've experienced stereotypes, but they have all worked out in my favor, which is weird to say. I don't mind people stereotyping me to be good at math or science and I don't think stereotypes would negatively hurt my job opportunities. But I know that isn't the case for all minorities. #2: Probably not. I'm white and I haven't really faced discrimination anywhere, at least not on the basis of my skin. I'm aware it happens to other people, but I'm not sure to what degree. I

Let's talk about Fast Fashion

I have a love hate relationship with fast fashion. I love it because, well, it's cheap. I like buying a cute outfit for five dollars. As a consumer, all I see is the price tag. Where it came from, how it was made, honestly didn't concern me that much. It was only after I started getting interested in labor rights that my perspective on this started to change. Fast Fashion pertains to brands such as Forever 21, H&M, Shein, etc. The term fast fashion is used because they swap styles every other day. New clothes are brought in every week and sold out, only to be replaced with another batch of trendy new styles. While for us consumers, this is fun and exciting and a cheap way to sharpen our wardrobe, this comes at the expense of millions of underpaid and abused workers. Fast fashion workers are notoriously overworked and underpaid. In countries such as Bangladesh where labor is the main source of capital, workers work under severe conditions to produce a massive amount of c

Labor Rights Equals Civil Rights

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