Human Rights Report on the Chinese Factory Mitt brags about in his 47% video
Twelve workers share each primitive and filthy dorm room. To wash, they use small plastic buckets to fetch water, which they splash on themselves, standing next to the toilet in the tiny bathroom.
High school students forced to work 15 to 16 hours a day, seven days a week.
Student interns, sitting on backless stools hunched over their assembly line, must complete the same operation every 13 seconds, non-stop, cleaning 3,920 circuit boards in 14 hours.
When Mr. Romney remarked excitedly,
“And uh, as we were walking through this facility, seeing them work, the number of hours they worked per day, the pittance they earned, living in dormitories with uh, with little bathrooms at the end of maybe 10, 10 room, rooms. And the rooms they have 12 girls per room. Three bunk beds on top of each other. You’ve seen, you’ve seen them? (Oh…yeah, yeah!) And, and, and around this factory was a fence, a huge fence with barbed wire and guard towers. And, and, we said gosh! I can’t believe that you, you know, keep these girls in! They said, no, no, no. This is to keep other people from coming in. Because people want so badly to come work in this factory that we have to keep them out. Or they will just come in here and start working and, and try and get compensated. So we, this is to keep people out.”
Does Mr. Romney seriously believe that young men and women in China are racing to climb over fortress-like walls topped with barbed wire, just to get a poorly paid job at Global-Tech?
Or is it possible that the barbed wire and armed guards are meant to lock the Chinese workers in and strip them of their legal rights?
LINK:
http://www.globallabourrights.org/reports?id=0651