"ARE YOU WORKWISE"
[some questions prepared by CAFOD/Christian Aid]
(1) Women do two thirds of the world's working hours; how much of the world's income do they earn?
(2) Who said that "consumers, by buying a product, become the indirect employers of the person who made it"? (a) Tony Blair (b) Nelson Mandela (c) The Pope
(3) At what age can young people in the UK get a part-time job and with what restrictions?
(4) An estimated 11-12 million children work full-time in Pakistan making toys, sports gear, carpets, bricks. How many are aged under 10?
(5) Working 9 hours a day 6 days a week, for how many years would a young Chinese woman working in a training shoe factory have to work to earn the annual salary of the boss of "Nike"? (a) 50 (b) 150 (c) 1500
(6) A young woman working in a foreign-owned factory in Central America making clothes for export is not allowed to (a) join a union (b) get pregnant (c) take a toilet break without permission
(7) You work in a factory, earning just enough to survive. To make the business more competitive, the boss decides to cut your wages by one fifth. Should you (a) grumble but do nothing (b) ask for extra overtime to make up time difference (c) join the union and fight the cuts (d) quit - you'd be better off on the dole
(8) You hear that a product you buy might have been made in exploitative conditions in the Third World. What do you do? (a) Nothing - it's beyond your control (b) boycott the company/product (c) contact the manufacturer to ask how they monitor the working conditions of the factories who supply them