Well, corporations have what they call corporate codes of conduct or charters, and they do say they investigate the factories to make sure they are in compliance with those codes. It never works. As a matter of fact, not long ago, Professor John Ruggie, the Harvard professor who is the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General on the issue of human rights and transnational corporations, came right out and said that corporate monitoring never works because people cheat. In other words, when they send in these monitors, the workers are already threatened and are trained in what to say.
We've been tracking this stuff for 20 to 25 years now, and it doesn't work. The only way to implement labour laws is for the Jordanian government and the ministry of labour to do it, and for the United States government to do it through the U.S. Trade Representative's office. In the United States now, under this administration, there is more push-back from the U.S. TR's office. In fact, as I said earlier, someone is leaving to go to Jordan next week just to look into these violations and all of that.
Monitoring can't be done by companies; it has failed for the last 20 years. It has to be done legally, by the U.S. government in this case, and by the Jordanian government.