Group slams Disney over labor abuses in factories

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Guangdong factories producing merchandise for Walt Disney are still ill- treating their workers by underpaying them and making them overwork, according to a concern group.

A report released Sunday by the Hong Kong-based Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior, or SACOM, accused three factories in the province of gross violation of mainland labor laws and called for immediate action to halt the malpractices.

It said the workers, besides being underpaid and forced to work overtime, were also not offered occupational insurance.

The group made the findings after interviewing 50 workers from three factories in Shenzhen and Zhuhai in July and August - the second time it has investigated working conditions in factories producing Disney merchandise.

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=11&art_id=27031&sid=9824599&con_type=1

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1. Factories in China, sprinkled with Pixie Dust from Tinker Bell

...How else do you get people work for $1.75 a day making millions of Disney tourist souvenirs like Mickey Ear Caps which sell for $10.00 each at WDW?