questions:

will the $15/hour minimum wage increase include workers in foreign countries who are also employed by U.S company’s??? you know, the folks who actually make of the products sold here. will they finally be compensated fairly? if not, how do we advocate for them?

seems like a good way to advocate would be a national stance here against u.s imperialism https://monthlyreview.org/2019/03/01/global-commodity-chains-and-the-new-imperialism/

“Other U.S. companies, such as Nike and Apple, offshore their production to subcontractors, mainly in the periphery, with production carried out according to their exact, digital specifications—a phenomenon known as arm’s length contracting, or what is sometimes referred to as

non-equity modes of production. This offshoring of production by today’s multinational corporations in the center of the world economy has led to a vast shift in the predominant location of industrial employment, from the global North up through the 1970s to the global South this

century....The World Bank, using U.S. Census data, indicates that 57 PERCENT of all U.S. trade is arm’s length trade, while a rapidly growing part of this is taking the form of monopolistic arm’s length contracting, involving specified production carried out by subcontracting

firms (such as Taiwanese Foxconn operating in China) producing commodities (such as iPhones) for buyer-driven multinational corporations (such as Apple). In general, the lower the per-capita income of a U.S. trading partner, the higher the share of U.S. arm’s length trade,

indicating that this is all about low wages. Even multinationals with high levels of FDI are heavily involved in arm’s length trade, moving in this way between direct and indirect exploitation.

Arm’s length contracts generated about $2 TRILLION in sales in 2010, “much of it in developing countries.”