Gap, Mattel, Speedo, Wal-Mart Products Linked to Child P2

Charles Kernaghan executive director of the National Labor Committee, discusses recent scandals linking children's products to sweatshop labor. National Labor Committee recently found forced labor of up to 90 hours a week and pay as low as 46 cents an hour in Chinese factories linked to Mateel. The clothing company the Gap has announced its cut ties with a subcontractor found to be holding children in slave-like conditions in India to make clothing sold by Gap Kids. The London Observer revealed Sunday that children as young as ten years old have been subjected to work long hours without pay and regular threats and beatings. Gap began auditing its labor conditions in 2004, years after reports of abusive conditions at its factories first emerged.

The Gap expose is only the latest scandal linking children's products to sweatshop labor. Earlier this year the toy giant Mattel recalled some 21 million China-made toys found to contain lead paint easily swallowed by children. Last week the National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights released three reports documenting the conditions for workers making those toys. The reports found forced labor of up to 90 hours a week and pay as low as 46 cents an hour. Aside from Mattel, other companies using the factories include Wal-Mart, McDonalds and the swimwear manufacturer Speedo.

Charles Kernaghan is the executive director of the National Labor Committee, widely considered this country's leading voice in exposing the foreign labor abuses of major U.S. corporations. He joins me in the firehouse studio.

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[TheAnnafisher]

1 womb 1 heart 1 love

[michaelquinlan88]

im sure their is an olympic athlete that could handle sweat shop work and conditions

[BigHashTouraj]

ok my answer to the people living under these condition or the ones trying to get out of it would be first - quit your job

second - kill a cop

third - sell anything valuable he or she has (clothes, gun, dead body (organs and other things)

fourth- repeat all steps again ps. you might wanna keep the gun to rob people.

lol no, the true i dont know what can you do in such fucked up conditions

[BigHashTouraj]

humm?! my math senses are tingling! ok getting .20 cents everyday minus .40 cents of working all week (including weekend) gives 1 dollar for 7 days of working. now 1 dollar is 6.84 Chinese Yuan Renminbi. you could barely get a bag of raw chiken with that money. and all that money is for your whole week!!! so you need five people working everyday in order to buy a bag of chicken to feed all five! (no even counting the expenses of cooking the chiken).

[kingdoug56]

i agree i hate this type of news crap

[uploadexplode]

i've sent these vids out ... who owns speedo and mattel ?

[zorin4life]

stfu fag. people need to spread this video ! come on everyone smile on brotha everyone get together right now!

[ayjuarez]

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