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30 Nov 2009

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Agence France Presse

Wal-Mart suppliers in China charged with rights abuses [USA]

Wal-Mart supplier factories in China feature abusive conditions in violation of the retailer's own "basic" standards...Workers making shoes, Christmas lights, tools, curtains and paper boxes sold at Wal-Mart stores endure "illegal and degrading conditions," New York-based China Labor Watch said...[whose] investigation of five Wal-Mart supplier factories reveals that "not a single factory has implemented Wal-Mart's basic standards, and a total of 10,000 workers included in the report suffer serious rights abuses... two of the five factories "illegally underpay overtime wages at rates as low as 44 cents per hour."…withheld wages from workers who fail to meet production quotas...dormitory conditions were so poor that at one factory, "there was no running water in the bathrooms."...Wal-Mart had no immediate comment.

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