Workers Rights

The argument in the article "Fight for fair treatment of Workers Rights : Don't Buy Nikes" is about how the people that work at the factory that makes Nikes are not being treated fairly. The reason I say this is because in the article it talks about how the workers are only being paid $1.25 a day and their being abused by their bosses. With the money the workers get they can only afford about an 8 by 8 apartment and water. The workers should be given way more money than what they get. They can barely afford that apartment and not to mention all the food they might need if they have to support the rest of their family. The workers are being kicked, slapped, and shoes thrown at them if they make a simple mistake. It worse if the boss thinks the mistake they made messes everything up because they force the workers to stand outside in the hot sun. I think that the workers need to be paid so much more for what they do because it isn't fair for them to work their butts off and not get anything from it but a $1/25. If they can barely afford water than what do they do about food? The workers should not be abused for something so simple or even if the bosses feel like hitting them. These workers have rights, no one should be abused or forced to do anything they don't want to do. By making them stand outside in the sun they are being treated like animals. I learned that so many workers everywhere not just at Nike factory but any other factory too, are being treated unfairly. I honestly think that people should change the way workers are being treated at sweatshops like these.

The argument of the poem was that the person writing it felt like a machine instead of a person because of how their life at work is. I have many reasons as to why I think the argument of the poem was that the person felt like a machine. One of them is that in the poem it clearly says "I feel like a machine" but the main thing about that statement is that they were describing what a machine might feel like. When they described those feelings they connected it back to what they felt themselves. Another thing is that the person explains that they have the same thing going on every single day, and nothing changes. The person feels like a machine because machines don't do anything different. Machines are always going to do the same thing but a person should always be able to do something differently everyday. The person feels alone and trapped because he/she doesn't have any more choices in what to do next its the same thing over and over, their like slaves. The poem is very different from the article because in the poem it explains the role of the job and what its like to do the same thing over and over. It explains what a person feels like being treated like a slave, its like their not even a person their like a machine, and in the article it explains what the bosses do to the workers, like disrespect them and treat them unfairly. The way the form of this poem affected my under of it was by describing what it felt like to be a slave and not have choices. I have many choices right now in what to do in my everyday like but when I read this poem I can some what understand what some workers working at sweatshops must feel like in their everyday life.