Lyddie Unit 3 NYS Common Core Module 2, Unit 3

1. DO NOW
Entry Task – think
• When you get a job, what do you expect
your working conditions to be like?
Hours?
Health, safety?
Compensation?
Treatment?

2. AND NOW…
Discuss with a shoulder partner!
• When you get a job, what do you expect
your working conditions to be like?
Hours?
Health, safety?
Compensation?
Treatment?

3. Lyddie
Learning Objectives
I can explain some of the differences between
working conditions in developing and developed
countries.
I can participate in discussions that help me
form my opinions about what constitutes fair
working conditions.
I can articulate my beliefs about fair working
conditions, considering my position as a future
worker.

4. Lyddie
Working Today
Next two weeks:
• Research working conditions of TODAY
• Have the issues of the past been resolved?
• In the US?
• In the world?
• For businesses or consumers?

5. Lyddie
Working Today
Wegmans
• Example of a “good” place to work in NY
• Look at their website!
Click on me!
• Working Conditions Chart

6. Lyddie
Working Today
Wegmans
• Turn & talk to shoulder partner
• What is it like to work at this store?
• Add again to the “Examples of FAIR
Working Conditions” on the chart

7. Lyddie
Working Today
Next two weeks:
• Research the garment industry
• Garment = clothes
• Where are most clothes made today?

8. Developing Country
• Relatively poor (low “cost of living”)
• Low wages
• Not much industry or technology
• Changing and growing

9. Lyddie
Working Today
FOUR CORNERS protocol:
• See a fact/ statement
• Go to the corner matching your opinion
• Strongly agree
• Mostly agree
• Mostly disagree
• Strongly disagree

10. Lyddie
Working Today
Because all wages and the cost of living
are lower in Bangladesh, it is fair that
the average hourly wage for a garment
worker there is $0.24 while in the
United States it is $8.25.

11. Lyddie
Working Today
It is never fair to have children younger
than 16 working in factories, even if
their parents give permission.

12. Lyddie
Working Today
It is the responsibility of the
governments of other countries
(not U.S. companies) to make sure the
garment factories are safe.
Governments there should pass and
enforce laws to protect their citizens.

13. Lyddie
Working Today
U.S. consumers (buyers) have some
responsibility for poor working conditions
and low wages in garment factories in
other countries, because they demand
cheap clothes and don’t demand that
companies provide fair working conditions
to the people who make them.

14. Lyddie
Working Today
Researcher’s Notebook:
• What are current working conditions like
in the garment industry?
• Look at Part I of the Notebook

15. Lyddie
Homework
Homework!
• Independent Reading Book (15-20 min)