Reports from international humanitarian groups on Disney sweatshops show that in China young people are forced to work 10-13 hours a day producing Disney’s children’s books six or seven days a week. The workers are paid 33 to 41 cents an hour (below even the Chinese minimum wage of 42 cents an hour). It is common for the workers to be cheated of their overtime pay. 8 to 12 workers are put in bad conditioned dorm rooms sleeping on double level bunk beds and fed horrible food at the factory canteen. Workers often faint from exhaustion and the unbearable heat in the factories. Workers have no health insurance or pension. They have no right to freedom of association or to organize. Factories coach workers on how to answer inspectors' questions when they come to monitor and one factory issued fake time slips while concealing the real ones showing illegal hours.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/18/news/international/disney_china/index.htm
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