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Article

6 Mar 2006

Author:
Aaron Glantz & Ngoc Nguyen, CorpWatch

Happy Meals, Unhappy Workers [Vietnam]

ten[s] of thousands of workers...[have held]...a massive wave of wildcat strikes protesting low pay and poor working conditions at southern Vietnam’s growing export processing zones and industrial parks...The workers [at KeyHinge toys], who manufactured plastic toys given away in McDonalds Happy Meals, told Lao Dong newspaper that unless they worked 12 hours a day without overtime they would be fired. The workers also complained they were only allowed two bathroom breaks a day...At McDonald’s corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, Anna Rozenich told the [AP]..."All the issues have been resolved, whatever they are."...[also refers to Danu Vina, Hallmark, Disney, Starbucks]