Met was excited to show her pay for her week's sewing. I almost cried, She's been sewing athletic shorts. Her pay for the week? about $9.00. Think about her when you buy clothes made in Thailand...or from other 2nd or 3rd world countries.
Poe, the young married daughter, who divides her time between here and her husbands house, is a university graduate working in accounting/bookkeeping. Currently she is working 72 hours a week...12 hour days 6 days a week for two weeks and then 12 hour nights for two weeks. Regular time, i.e., the first 48 hours per week, she gets paid 37 baht per hr. (32 baht = $1.00). For her overtime work she makes 54 baht an hour.
But that's not all. She has to commute an hour each way and each way she pays 100 baht for a bus ticket. She has no sick leave, no paid vacations and no pension.
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| My school |
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| School is on the temple grounds |
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| Eating lunch |
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| Students raking before school |
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