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The cost of three meals per day in Cu Chi is about $2. The $37 per month received is below the minimum wage of $45 per month in Vietnam. Most workers are forced to work 600+ hours of overtime per year. This is above the legal limit of 200 hours per year. If they do not accept the forced overtime, they will get a warning and after three warnings they will lose their jobs.
Workers cannot go to the toilet more than once per 8 hour shift and they cannot drink water more than twice per shift. Workers commonly faint from exhaustion, heat, fumes and poor nutrition during their shifts. Health care is inadequate. At the Sam Yang factory, with 6000 employees, one doctor works only two hours a day but the factory operates 20 hours a day. Night shift employees do not have any on-site medical emergency services.
Abuse of workers is rife: 15 Vietnamese women tell CBS News (USA television) that they were hit over the head by their supervisor for poor sewing, two were hospitalised Nike Lebron 12 New Released. Another 45 women are forced by their supervisors to kneel down with their hands up in the air for 25 minutes.
100 workers at the Pouchen factory, a Nike site in Dong Nai, are forced to stand in the sun for half an hour for spilling a tray of fruit on an altar with which three Taiwanese supervisors were using. One employee (Nguyen Minh Tri) walks out after 18 minutes, and is dismissed. 56 women at the same factory are forced to run around the factory grounds. 12 of them faint and are taken to hospital.
A Nike plant supervisor from Korea flees Vietnam after being accused of sexually molesting several women workers. Many women workers have complained to Vietnam Labour Watch about frequent sexual harassment from foreign supervisors. Even in broad daylight, in front of other workers, these supervisors try to touch, rub or grab their buttocks or chests. One supervisor told a female factory worker that it is a common custom for men in his country to greet women they like by grabbing their behinds.
Nike uses subcontractors in Vietnam so that it can legally evade responsibility for local conditions. However, the company dictates the price of shoes and also the cost of operation to its subcontractors. This forces them to set high quotas for their workers and to pay low wages. It has been estimated that the labor cost involved in making one pair of Nike shoes is only $3. These may then sell for over $100 in the USA and Europe.
Other plants utilising cheap labour are in China, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, and South Korea. Nike, admits to its shareholders that it has used child labour in Vietnam as well as in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Cambodia.
Philip Knight, the founder of Nike, is reputed to be worth $5,400 million. I looked at it and it cost $ 39.99 UGG Short Boot Factory Outlet. The American made shirt that was better cost only $ 10.00 more The profit margin is NOT being passed onto the shopper. I saw where it was made in China then I recalled the following.
My brother's girl friend of many years is a buyer of fashions for a number of major retailers. She has been going to China now for about 5 years and tells of the appalling conditions and wages' they are pain. The Communist party member follows the buyers everywhere and they are not allowed to talk to any of the employees. You cannot take cameras, cell phones that take pictures, etc. in to the plants. The unskilled people are paid 4-5 cents per hour and skilled 20 cents. Many people have such lung disorders from breathing the continual fumes and air borne debris from the textile plants all you hear is a constant coughing and many spitting blood. Women are in those unventilated areas with toxic material and no air-conditioning that are 4 or more months pregnant. The sellers there continual lie and try to deceive the foreign buyers on everything. People sleep 8 to 10 or more ion floor mats is rooms no more than 10 by 15 feet
Unsure wrote:
It is sad time when a bunch of protesters can decide a mans faith. Don't get me wrong I think its sick to be cruel to any living creature. But isn't a person inocent until proven guilty. Why are we punishing someone for something he has not been found guilty of yet.
Vick decided his own fate. A long time ago.
There is no rush to judgement Buy Kobe 9 Online. Vick's property was raided back in April. 3 months ago. Prosecutors and law enforcement have been working for three months to make sure they crossed all the t's and dotted the i's.
