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Workers complain of verbal abuse, impossible targets and poverty pay so bad they have to live away from their children
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When Alia was told the gist of Ivanka Trumps new book on women in the workplace, she burst out laughing. Her idea of work-life balance, she said, would be if she could see her children more than once a month.
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The reality of working in a factory making clothes for Ivanka Trumps label has been laid bare, with employees speaking of being paid so little they cannot live with their children, anti-union intimidation and women being offered a bonus if they dont take time off while menstruating.
The Guardian has spoken to more more than a dozen workers at the fashion labels factory in Subang, Indonesia, where employees describe being paid one of the lowest minimum wages in Asia and there are claims of impossibly high production targets and sporadically compensated overtime.
The workers complaints come only a week after labour activists investigating possible abuses at a Chinese factory that makes Ivanka Trump shoes disappeared into police custody.
The activists group claimed they had uncovered a host of violations at the plant including salaries below Chinas legal minimum wage, managers verbally abusing workers and violations of womens rights.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/13/revealed-reality-of-a-life-working-in-an-ivanka-trump-clothing-factory?CMP=edit_2221
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(82,849 posts)Any truth to that?
Tanuki
(14,922 posts)".....The three activists were preparing to issue a report accusing factories that make shoes for the daughter of US president Donald Trump of a host of violations including paying below Chinas legal minimum wage, managers verbally abusing workers and violations of womens rights, according to their NGO China Labor Watch.
But one of the activists, Hua Haifeng, was detained by police on suspicion of illegal use of monitoring equipment and two others, Li Zhao and Su Heng, have gone missing and are presumed to be in police
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His lawyer, Wen Yu, was prevented from seeing Hua at the detention center this week.
Police told Wen that Hua had met with an accident in his cell and that he would be unable to see his client until after Hua was arraigned on criminal charges, according to US-funded Radio Free Asia."......(more)