Group slams Disney over labor abuses in factories

[Omaha Steve]

As if we didn't already have enough reasons to be mad at the house of the mouse.

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

Wendy Leung

Monday, September 11, 2006

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.




Last year it found workers at four other factories in Dongguan, Shenzhen and Zhongshan being exploited by their bosses.

The latest claims drew a curt response from Walt Disney's corporate communications director, Alannah Goss, who said the company took the allegations very seriously and would investigate thoroughly.


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