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Chinese work 16 hours a day to make Olympic toys
Wednesday July 25, 2012 06:06:49 PM,
IANS
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London: Workers in
sweatshops across China who are making toys of London Olympic
mascots Wenlock and Mandeville are toiling for up to 16 hours a
day in hazardous conditions, a British media report said.
The Chinese workers are being paid just six pounds a day ($9), but
plastic figures of the mascots are sold for up to 10 pounds ($15)
each, the Daily Mail reported.
Workers at a factory in Guangdong province are allegedly being
docked half a day's pay for being five minutes late.
Activists who interviewed workers at the Xinda facility in
Guangdong said employees worked six-day weeks of up to 12 hours a
day, three times the legal overtime allowed under Chinese labour
laws.
At another factory in Shenzhen that is also producing toys for the
games, people are working long shifts, 8 a.m. till midnight.
Sacom -- or Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour
-- a workers' rights group in Hong Kong, also claimed workers
would be fined one-and-a-half days' salary if they were more than
five minutes late.
Two such incidents would see them docked six days salary,
according to the report.
Earlier this year, similar complaints were made about another
Chinese factory producing Wenlock and Mandeville toys for the
Olympics.
The factory making toys for Shropshire-based Golden Bear was said
to be breaching workers' rights by making them labour for 11.5
hours a day for as little as 26 pence an hour, the Daily Mail
said.
The London games organising committee said it has independently
reviewed the two factories, and claimed "no issues were found".
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