10.5 working hours per day, 7 days/week regardless of peak or off season. Workers are being scolded, if being slow. At times physical abuse is in order. Workers complain of strong toxic odors, when manufacturing mobile phones and cameras.
Incident Tag: Discrimination
Tragedies of Globalization: The Truth Behind Electronics Sweatshops
~1/3 of factory’s workforce is below 18 years of age, 140 hours/month overtime with one or two days of rest every month at peak seasons.
The Failure of Target’s Audit System in its Chinese Supplier Factories
Clothing factory among occupational safety issues, currently runs on 10 hour daily shifts, 28 days/month; 30 days/month (no days off) when receiving multiple production orders.
Shenzhen, China: NGO survey of working conditions in 13 electronics factories supplying 47 brands finds abuses including child labour, discrimination, excessive overtime
An investigation of 13 Shenzhen electronics factories producing components for many well-known brand names found widespread labour abuses.
Workers silenced as we talk (SOMO)
Report reveals severe violations of workers’ rights in Asian (China, Philippines) mobile phone factories.
Court orders Samsung Electronics East Africa to compensate employee for sexual discrimination, racism & wrongful termination
Court orders Samsung Electronics East Africa to compensate employee for sexual discrimination, racism & wrongful termination.
China Labor Watch – 20/11/2015
“A contracted toy company producing for McDonald’s employed 400 child workers, who were required to work 16 hours per day and paid 1.5 yuan per hour. The youngest worker was only 14 years old.”
Exhaustion Has No Limit at Apple Supplier in China
A Race to the Bottom: Trans-Pacific Partnership and Nike in Vietnam
67 Vietnamese factories, supplying Nike with footwear and clothing, allegedly pay workers 48 to 69 cents/hour. While the “average customs value of the Nike sneakers is just $5.27 per pair”, Nike shoes “sell in the U.S. from $60 to $120 to well past $200”
Dirty Toys Made in China Holiday Toys Made Under Sweatshop Conditions. December 10, 2015
“Both hands must be constantly moving.” 12 to 13-plus hour shifts in near freezing conditions, earning as little as $1.36 an hour. Fumes from chemicals including industrial alcohol, phenylenediamine and sodium peroxide cause nausea, dizziness and headaches.