Green America: Hasbro & Disney: Stop Exploiting Toy Workers E action

[Omaha Steve]

http://action.greenamerica.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=17807




11 hour days. Non-stop shifts in hot facilities with scant water breaks. Chemical handling without gloves or masks. Crowded dorms. Unpaid work. Poverty wages. These are just some of the issues faced by the people who make toys for Hasbro and Disney.

A new report by China Labor Watch (CLW) of toy factories in China, found workers who make FurReal Friends and Nerf Guns for Hasbro and Frozen Dolls for Disney lead anything but playful lives.

Days are long and the work is physical and fast. The fans in the factories do nothing to keep the workplace cool and most days workers are drenched in sweat. Water breaks, however, are only granted twice a day for three minutes–for thousands of workers!

Workers on the assembly line at both plants use industrial alcohol and other harsh chemicals without gloves or masks. At a Hasbro supplier, CLW's investigator observed that while making the FurReal stuffed dogs, workers were constantly breathing in small fabric particles. The hands of other workers in the packaging department were covered with scars, cuts and peeling skin–from the constant friction of packing boxes without gloves. At the Disney supplier, workers in the painting department complained of dizziness, headaches, and nausea.

FULL info and action at link.