trickle down

From: Wikipedia

"Contractors for Fruit of the Loom, Hanes and Levi’s worked in close concert with the US Embassy when they aggressively moved to block a minimum wage increase for Haitian assembly zone workers, the lowest-paid in the hemisphere [...] the factory owners at the center of this sordid story, who moved successfully to block the $5 per day minimum wage passed by the Haitian parliament, were making goods for big-name US retailers like Levi Strauss and Hanes. In keeping with the industry’s usual practice, the brand name US companies kept their own hands clean [...]" — The Nation
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"[...] We also leverage our trade relationships and the power of our brand to encourage the governments in the countries from which we source to strengthen and enforce their own labor laws, including policies that directly affect working conditions and worker rights. [...]" — Levi Strauss & Co. (from their web site)
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another incident involving US Ambassador
Janet Sanderson

"[...] For months the families petitioned Sanderson, then U.S. ambassador to Algeria, for news of the detained aid workers. She refused to meet with the families, advising them to contact the Algerian authorities, says Abdelkader Ait Idir, spokesman for the families.
After a year in custody, all 24 Algerian aid workers were released. One, Mustapha Ait Idir, Abdelkader’s 33-year-old brother, is still angry at Sanderson and other State Department officials for the treatment meted out in the 'Guantanamo Bay cages.'" — William Bolwes.info
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