Why don't you ask the kids at Tiananmen square?
Was Fashion the reason why they were there?
They disguise it, Hypnotize it
Television made you buy it
I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my...
She's scared that I will take her away from there
Dreams that her country left with no one there
Mezmerize the simple minded
Propaganda leaves us blinded
I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my girl
I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my girl
I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my girl
I'm just sitting in my car and waiting for my
Girl
Não fosse o vento, ou antes, a falta dele, hoje teria sido a primeira regata. No barco do vizinho, a convite dele, entenda-se.
You remember clearly when you were about six years old and had chicken pox.
Now your son has it.
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New Balance Goes to China:
An Unprecedented Glimpse into Working and Living Conditions in a Large Factory in China
February 2nd, 2006
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-- New In-Depth Report
New In-Depth Report
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This report, we believe, offers a truly unprecedented glimpse into the actual working and living conditions in a large export factory in China, one that goes far behind the glossy teflon veneer presented by U.S. multi-national corporate codes of conduct and private monitoring schemes. Our research was based not only on numerous worker interviews, but also on a whole trove of internal company documents, including work contracts, hiring posters, factory regulations and manuals, dorm rules, an astonishing list of military-like infractions which will be punished with fines, and photographs. All of these were smuggled out of the factory by many brave workers.
As we will see, in the new corporate world order, the large export assembly factories in China and across the world which are supplying U.S. corporations resemble minimum security prisons much more than they do "model" factories.
The lack of worker rights, especially the core internationally recognized labor rights to freedom of association, to organize independent unions and to bargain collectively, is the single greatest reason that China's factory workers are being left behind. The tens of millions of rural migrants working in China's export factories are certainly one of the pillars, if not the most significant one, supporting China's surging economy, the fastest growing in modern history. Yet the workers' wages have remained largely stagnant over the last decade.
This is definitely the case with the New Balance workers in China who are still earning just 40 cents an hour.
-Workers are docked a day's wages for arriving late to work, for walking off the sidewalks, or dropping a candy wrapper.
-Talking back to a supervisor will result in the loss of three days' wages.
-"Causing a commotion, disseminating rumors, inciting workers to strike" will result in the loss of one week's wages.
-Anyone who dares return to the dorm during working hours will be "treated as a thief."
-In the dorms, "it is strictly prohibited to use electricity without permission, or do anything else that is not good."
-Everyone must do "their duty to keep the place clean and that every day the room is swept and mopped three times!."
-Going into other people's dorm rooms will result in the loss of one day's pay, as will "carelessly hanging or posting things in the dormitory." If "things in the room are thrown around messily" another day's pay is gone.
-However, there are also rewards under the new corporate world order, for "supervising and exposing fellow workers." Ratting on others will get you a bonus of four days wages.
Click here to read the full report (PDF)
Contact Information
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email: nlc@nlcnet.org
phone: 212-242-3002
web: http://www.nlcnet.org
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