Poor conditions at Disney supplier
By Li Xinran |
October 28, 2010, Thursday
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A GROUP of students investigating several factories that produce merchandise for the Walt Disney corporation in China have released a report which accuses one of the factories, a paper mill in Guangdong Province, of having poor working and accommodation conditions.
The report, titled "Mickey Mouse Is No Longer Lovable," was published recently, the National Business Daily said?yesterday. It contains claims that the factory forces staff to work overtime without extra pay and has covered up work-related injuries.
The students, who also investigated the factories in 2009, carried out a new round of research this summer by working for Disney factories based in Pearl River Delta cities, such as Dongguan and Shenzhen in Guangdong Province.
They accuse one plant, the East Asia paper mill in Shenzhen's Bao'an District, of serious violations of labor law.
The factory is owned by a Hong Kong-based company and produces cards, envelopes and calendars for Disney.
The report says °?factory workers only had one day off in 62 days in July and August.
It goes on to say that workers were forced to work unpaid overtime if they could not complete their daily quotas in eight hours, and that most of the 700 employees worked an average of three to five hours overtime a day.
The students found that the basic salary in the factory is 900 yuan (US$135) a month, despite Shenzhen City announcing an increase in the minimum wage to 1,100 yuan a month in July.
They also claim that the canteen in the factory offers workers substandard food and deducts 264 yuan from their wages every month, whether they ate there or not.
Further investigations revealed that some staff were living in dirty and overcrowded conditions in a dormitory on the fourth floor of the factory.
One student was told that a 25-year-old worker lost his right arm in a production accident after a supervisor deliberately removed the safety devices on the machine.
A senior executive at the factory denied all of the claims.
The first edition of the students' report, published last year, forced Walt Disney (Shanghai) to launch investigations into conditions at five of its factories.
The report, titled "Mickey Mouse Is No Longer Lovable," was published recently, the National Business Daily said?yesterday. It contains claims that the factory forces staff to work overtime without extra pay and has covered up work-related injuries.
The students, who also investigated the factories in 2009, carried out a new round of research this summer by working for Disney factories based in Pearl River Delta cities, such as Dongguan and Shenzhen in Guangdong Province.
They accuse one plant, the East Asia paper mill in Shenzhen's Bao'an District, of serious violations of labor law.
The factory is owned by a Hong Kong-based company and produces cards, envelopes and calendars for Disney.
The report says °?factory workers only had one day off in 62 days in July and August.
It goes on to say that workers were forced to work unpaid overtime if they could not complete their daily quotas in eight hours, and that most of the 700 employees worked an average of three to five hours overtime a day.
The students found that the basic salary in the factory is 900 yuan (US$135) a month, despite Shenzhen City announcing an increase in the minimum wage to 1,100 yuan a month in July.
They also claim that the canteen in the factory offers workers substandard food and deducts 264 yuan from their wages every month, whether they ate there or not.
Further investigations revealed that some staff were living in dirty and overcrowded conditions in a dormitory on the fourth floor of the factory.
One student was told that a 25-year-old worker lost his right arm in a production accident after a supervisor deliberately removed the safety devices on the machine.
A senior executive at the factory denied all of the claims.
The first edition of the students' report, published last year, forced Walt Disney (Shanghai) to launch investigations into conditions at five of its factories.
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