Working for Disney Is No Fairy Tale
Human Rights Activists Urge Disney to Improve Labor Practices and Vigorously Enforce Its Code of Conduct for Manufacturers
Chinese factory workers manufacturing clothes, hats and shoes for the Walt Disney Company are regularly forced to work cripplingly long hours for poverty wages, according to a new report by the Hong Kong Christian Industrial Committee (HKCIC). Human rights groups in Great Britain and the US say the intolerable working conditions described in the report prove that independent monitoring of Disney factories is needed immediately if workplace abuses are to be eliminated.