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Disney supplier accused of labor abuses

Full story: Orlando Sentinel

Hundreds of people are making stuffed Walt Disney toys at a factory in southern China up to 16 hours a day with only a few days off each month, a Hong Kong-based labor-activist group said Wednesday.

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nokidding

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Hey Disney, here is something you might not have thought about. Why don't you get out of the child labor business, set up a few factories right here in the United States and make all the toys you need. How about using some of the thousand of acres you own right here in Florida to build those facilities and pay Americans a decent salary to do the job right. Have you forgot about this great country of ours? I think you have. I guess your answer to that would be, you are now a Global company and have no allegiance to any one country.
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Nov 1, 2007
 
Disney could be boycotted, but then stores like walmart should be boycotted as well. The problem is the poor and many hard working people are forced to buy the cheapest of clothing, just as they are forced into many other situations not of their own making, by this fully corrupt government.

Those at the top of this gov are creating stalemates for the sake of money and control, destroying the fabric of this nation and pitting the rich against the hard working and poor, while they hide behind the investors that for reasons of money, naturally demand more and more of the laborers. Labor is the only producer of money.
Disney Is Corrupt

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Take a good close look at how Disney treats their own employees. What makes anybody think they care about people being abused in China. Corporate America and companies like Walt Disney World have caused this around the World. I believe this is why the terrorist took down the World Trade Center in New York.Folks if the terrorist wanted to kill alot of Americans they could have went to a Football Stadium or other places to do the job. Corporate America has screwed many people overseas. Look at what Enron did right here in America? Enron is not the only Company to screw Americans out of MILLIONS!! Walt Disney is very crooked. Folks plese buy the Book "Disney The Mouse Betrayed.It is written by Peter and Rochelle Schweizer. The book was published by Regnery. The book talks about GREED CORRUPTION and even GAY DAYS. And it talks about children at risk. Disney hires crooked cops. Disney will do all they can to protect these criminals. I heard Disney owns the Orange County Sheriffs Department?? Folks are we Imploding in America?? YES!!
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Finally a Disney employee who is only working children and not trying to have sex with them. This must be a relief for the Disney PR machine.
Contributions

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Nov 1, 2007
 
What people don't seem to realize is that child labor jobs are all that is keeping some of those families from starving. It's easy to criticize a practice as wrong or immoral from the comfort of your middle/upper income household when you ignore the economic realities faced by some of these 3rd world kids.
No Good People

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Nov 1, 2007
 
Contributions wrote:
What people don't seem to realize is that child labor jobs are all that is keeping some of those families from starving. It's easy to criticize a practice as wrong or immoral from the comfort of your middle/upper income household when you ignore the economic realities faced by some of these 3rd world kids.
Sir you are a idiot. So I guess maybe our poor people here should do slave labor also right here in America? It sounds like you may have suppoted having slaves in America in the past and today??? Greed and Corruption is what this story is all about.
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Nov 1, 2007
 
Contributions wrote:
What people don't seem to realize is that child labor jobs are all that is keeping some of those families from starving. It's easy to criticize a practice as wrong or immoral from the comfort of your middle/upper income household when you ignore the economic realities faced by some of these 3rd world kids.
NEWS FLASH - China isn't a 3rd world country. It is a country that is consuming more OIL than the USA and building more factories than any other county in the world. CHINA is planning to send a man to the moon. What we have to realize is China, Tawain, and the rest of ASIA workers work for 15 days in a row, and have one day off. They have two national holidays (5 days in a row) per year. I am a fifth generation Floridian, and I am telling everyone, especially my kids. ASIA is eating our lunch, and they have for the past 20 years. USA needs to wake up, get educated, and start inventing some stuff real fast, or we will be the 3rd world county. China doesn't have workmans comp, sick days, or beachside vacations. They work, and are very proud of their products. So, whoever wrote this article didn;t know anything about ASIA manufacturing, and Walt Disney World, or 99% of all MFG of the products we now purchase in the good ole USA, are not doing anything wrong.
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Nov 2, 2007
 
No Good People wrote:
<quoted text> Sir you are a idiot. So I guess maybe our poor people here should do slave labor also right here in America? It sounds like you may have suppoted having slaves in America in the past and today??? Greed and Corruption is what this story is all about.
You are the idiot if you think that straw-maning underpaid labor with slave labor to disprove my point has any merit.

Guess what, those children that lost their jobs because of this will now be getting NO Money and will probably starve (even more). THAT is reality regardless whether or not greed and corruption is involved.
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Nov 2, 2007
 
West Orlandoman wrote:
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NEWS FLASH - China isn't a 3rd world country. It is a country that is consuming more OIL than the USA and building more factories than any other county in the world. CHINA is planning to send a man to the moon. What we have to realize is China, Tawain, and the rest of ASIA workers work for 15 days in a row, and have one day off. They have two national holidays (5 days in a row) per year. I am a fifth generation Floridian, and I am telling everyone, especially my kids. ASIA is eating our lunch, and they have for the past 20 years. USA needs to wake up, get educated, and start inventing some stuff real fast, or we will be the 3rd world county. China doesn't have workmans comp, sick days, or beachside vacations. They work, and are very proud of their products. So, whoever wrote this article didn;t know anything about ASIA manufacturing, and Walt Disney World, or 99% of all MFG of the products we now purchase in the good ole USA, are not doing anything wrong.
Um news flash of course China is a 3rd world country. Since 3rd world by very definition means non allied state between the soviet/american cold war.(Not part of warsaw or NATO)

Since the cold war is over the non-allied definition is absolete but it just happens that China is also still a developing country.

While its coastal cities are metropolitan you need to look no further than the migrant workers and the inland cities to see how poor the average Chinese worker is. What you are describing is just an illusion of the Norm since you are using upper-middle class Chinese living standards and trying to apply them to all Chinese living standards.

Just because a country is rich doesn't neccessarily mean its people are.
Disney Is Corrupt

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Nov 3, 2007
 
Disney being as crooked as they are ,are trying to get those same hours and working condition here in America.. Disney folks, will send their LOBBYIST to Washington DC to get these pathetic Fat Politicians to sell us out some more??
Disney Sweat Shop

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Nov 5, 2007
 
How much lead is in Disney Products?? If Disney could they would have their own Sweat Shop right here in America on their Communist Property!
Disneys Lobbyist

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Nov 6, 2007
 
If you buy from a Communist Country then you must be a Communist yourself?? Folks Corporate America and companies like Disney support a Communist Country, China? How pathetic!!
Disney is Bad News

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Nov 6, 2007
 
Corruption is Disneys middle name.
Ethel11

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A man who has been arrested at Disney Market place, who have had the police surround their home because of violence,have their names in the paper for soliciting sex from prostitutes, etc etc, really sounds like a person with an vendetta. Perhaps he should look into his own personal life and mistakes and get his life in order instead of posting "hatedisney" blogs. oh, BTW, since you are still on here posting your hatefilled blogs,apparently, the FBI knows your cases don't have merit either.
Disneys For Communism

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Nov 7, 2007
 
knows who this joker is wrote:
A man who has been arrested at Disney Market place, who have had the police surround their home because of violence,have their names in the paper for soliciting sex from prostitutes, etc etc, really sounds like a person with an vendetta. Perhaps he should look into his own personal life and mistakes and get his life in order instead of posting "hatedisney" blogs. oh, BTW, since you are still on here posting your hatefilled blogs,apparently, the FBI knows your cases don't have merit either.
See you know your a liar. It was your buddy OPD Officer David Hayward who made the bogus Domestic Violence to our home(8 plus cops 4 hours).It was Both Internal Affairs Departments( Mike Favorit and Jose Velez) who filed false police reports to cover up for this TU*D! This case then came up missing off the OC web sight. And my name was never in the paper for soliciting? And it was Pleasure Island freak not the Market Place. Now if I was guilty of this crime why didn't your favorit Theme Park give the Courts the Surveillance Videos to show what happen? There were several cameras in the area?? And yes I hate crooked cops and crooked politicians and crooked theme parks who protect criminals.. Folks to show you how crooked Walt Disney World is buy the book "The Mouse Betrayed". It was written by Peter and Rochelle Schweizer. It was published by Regnery. Disney owns the OCSD! Disney is a liar when they held back the evidence. And you sir are a IDIOT!! Have a lousy Thanksgiving!! Hey tell us all about Disney's LOBBYIST and how they screw the American People!!
Ethel11

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Nov 7, 2007
 
lol,, still having those hallucinations I see.
Corruption

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Nov 8, 2007
 
No what I'm doing is exposing criminals in Law Enforcement and Politics.. You can call it what you want..Go ahead and try to make liar out of us and call your friends at Disney and lets watch the surveillance video together Of what happen when the 3 Orange County Deputies attacked my wife and I on Disney property? Oh and find out why the other case is missing off the OC web and is filed under another case #? Oh and there is no question OPD and OCSD is loaded with corrupt crooked cops.. When is the Sheriff going to jail??
R U Surprised

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Nov 8, 2007
 
Ha Ha Disney runs its own sweat shop..
Ethel11

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Nov 8, 2007
 
<shaking head< running between screen names and posting on the same thread is something a teenager or MI person would do.
Keep on with your " everyone is out to get me mentality",it keeps you off the streets.
Ethel11

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Nov 8, 2007
 
How is the FBI investigation coming along, rofl... poor poor you, nobody believes you.. except you.

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