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Publicado: 19 de febrero de 2013
Walt Disney and Child Slave Labor
Who would have known that what is most commonly known as "the happiest place on earth" is supporting child slave labor. The Walt Disney T-Shirt you bought foryour little sister for her birthday was probably stitched by a twelve year old girl in Haiti. These children are being sold by their parents to work in order to pay their debts with their poor wages.They are forced to work in vile conditions, disrespecting their basic rights and exploiting their innocence. The pay for children is one third of the wages of adults and the factory conditionsare hazardous to their health. The use of the unsanitary bathrooms is only allowed twice a day. Children are forced to work fifteen hours to twenty-two hours a day, with only three days off in ninemonths.
In Haiti, girls stitch Aladdin T-shirts for twenty-eight cents an hour, in Burma-six cents an hour. In Vietnam, seventeen-year-old girls who work seven days a week for seventeen cents anhour make toys. 101 Dalmatians and Lion King shirts were made in a factory in Bangkok while working seventy-two hours per week. All this is happening while CEO of the Disney Corporation, MichaelEisner, made about $102,000 per hour.
8 to 12 workers are housed in primitive rooms sleeping on bunk beds and fed horrible food at the factory canteen. Workers often faint from exhaustion and theunbearably stifling heat in the factories. Workers have no health insurance, no pension, and no rights. They have no right to freedom of association or to organize.
A young girl of only sixteenexperienced many work-related injuries in her eight years of working at one of these factories. One of her fellow workers was crushed to death in a hole-punching machine, while the entire lower half of herbody was crushed. The following year another worker was killed while manually cleaning a cutting machine. He accidentally stepped on an exposed mechanism and was electrocuted.
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Who would have known that what is most commonly known as "the happiest place on earth" is supporting child slave labor. The Walt Disney T-Shirt you bought foryour little sister for her birthday was probably stitched by a twelve year old girl in Haiti. These children are being sold by their parents to work in order to pay their debts with their poor wages.They are forced to work in vile conditions, disrespecting their basic rights and exploiting their innocence. The pay for children is one third of the wages of adults and the factory conditionsare hazardous to their health. The use of the unsanitary bathrooms is only allowed twice a day. Children are forced to work fifteen hours to twenty-two hours a day, with only three days off in ninemonths.
In Haiti, girls stitch Aladdin T-shirts for twenty-eight cents an hour, in Burma-six cents an hour. In Vietnam, seventeen-year-old girls who work seven days a week for seventeen cents anhour make toys. 101 Dalmatians and Lion King shirts were made in a factory in Bangkok while working seventy-two hours per week. All this is happening while CEO of the Disney Corporation, MichaelEisner, made about $102,000 per hour.
8 to 12 workers are housed in primitive rooms sleeping on bunk beds and fed horrible food at the factory canteen. Workers often faint from exhaustion and theunbearably stifling heat in the factories. Workers have no health insurance, no pension, and no rights. They have no right to freedom of association or to organize.
A young girl of only sixteenexperienced many work-related injuries in her eight years of working at one of these factories. One of her fellow workers was crushed to death in a hole-punching machine, while the entire lower half of herbody was crushed. The following year another worker was killed while manually cleaning a cutting machine. He accidentally stepped on an exposed mechanism and was electrocuted.
Companies are...
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