DISNEY workers beaten, fined in Banglasdesh when asking for overtime pay

[Bluebear]

Disney Does it Again: Niagra Factory Case

The National Labor Committee has released a new report about the Niagra factory in Bangladesh, where 22 union members brave enough to demand their legal overtime pay were beaten, fired, and imprisoned on false charges. The factory requires 19 hour shifts, pays no overtime, and denies maternity leave & benefits.

Workes paid FIVE CENTS per Disney garment. Read about Disney sweatshop here:

http://www.nlcnet.org/campaigns/niagra/niagra-bangladesh.pdf

[ck4829]

1. K&R

The Path to 9/11

[malaise]

2. Great find

Thanks

[Kurovski]

3. K&R.(nt)

[lonestarnot]

4. There's your mouse shit for the day.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Is this why Disney supports Bush?

Neoliberalism is the colonialism department of neoconservatism.
-- Granny D Haddock

Granny is essentially correct, but she got the cart before the horse. Neoconservatism is the enforcement department of neoliberalism.
-- Jack Rabbit

[sandnsea]

6. Bangladesh factory collapses

I was going to post the one that happened last year, lo and behold there was another one this year and not even a peep in our media.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bangladesh+factory+collapse&btnG=Google+Search

[Moochy]

7. Disney workers Beaten, ABC pulls Path to 911 movie

Hey wait, we dont like Disney at the moment right? :yoiks:

[Bluebear]

12. Eh? nt

[Bluebear]

15. .

[CarlVK]

8. Walt would have been proud.

That guy was rabidly anti-union and no doubt would have been out there bringing clubs down on workers' heads, with the cops.

[derby378]

9. But, unlike someone under a banyan tree...

...all publicly traded corporations have been structured, through a series of legal decisions, to have a peculiar and disturbing characteristic.

They are required - by law - to place the financial interests of their owners above competing interests. In fact, the corporation is legally bound to put its bottom line ahead of everything else.

Even the public good.

(From The Corporation)

[Vidar]

10. K&R.

[Human Torch]

11. Too bad "imprisoned on false charges" didn't fit on your subject line...

...because the story sounded atrocious BEFORE I clicked on it, but...well, you know.

I've got to imagine that Karl Rove gets aroused when he reads this kind of thing. Imagine if all resistance waned, if Bush & Rove & Cheney & the PNAC pricks just had carte blanche to do whatever they wanted.

They'd do this kind of stuff. It's the direction they've been leading the American working man and woman since 2000.

:patriot:

[chat_noir]

13. K&R

[Cobalt Violet]

14. K & R.

[NMMNG]

16. I feel sick

This sort of thing is probably Bushco's wet dream. :scared:

[Felinity]

22. Am I crazy? This just occurred to me

Maybe Bush, warned that this was the big, New Pearl Harbor day, actually found this very exciting that the game was on. Maybe that's why his face turned red, according to the child en who were there. Maybe he was embarrassed and couldn't get up until his "excitement" subsided (it's always about the Children).

Remember, during the 2000 (I think, could have been 2004) Rethug convention, the Daily Show pointed out the giant erection Bush was sporting from the Audience?

[nashville_brook]

24. wow. that kinda fits with the face he's making while sitting there.

he seems to be struggling with his "dignity." not that he has or deserves any. but, i can totally see a combination of testosterone and aggression -- and TENSION, perhaps in reeling them both in... for the sake of the children, of course.

[nashville_brook]

25. here's another...

[NMMNG]

27. That never crossed my mind

It wouldn't surprise me though. :puke:

Thanks for filling my head with that image. :P

[NotGivingUp]

17. that's horribly depressing. i'm sure that's what bush & buddies have

in mind for us, too.

[Selatius]

18. This is what raw capitalism is all about

It is this horrendous treatment of workers, the deprivation of human dignity from people, that caused the creation of socialists like me in the first place.

[mykpart]

19. I clicked on the link and got a blank page.

[Kolesar]

23. It downloaded OK for me

I am using Microsoft internet explorer 6.0 & Win XP pro

[JI7]

20. has anyone seen the film "Mickey Mouse goes to Haiti"

i think it was Haiti. but it was about the same issues of cheap labor, shitty working conditions.

[entanglement]

21. Disney boss Eisner shut down a plant in Bangladesh rather than

pay his workers a few cents more and allow them humane working conditions. (This happened sometime in 2002, IIRC). Eisner was making 130 million a year, btw.

[GreenPartyVoter]

26. I think Karma will have lots of lovely parting gifts for Mr. Eisner....