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Toys
of Misery 2004
A Joint Report by National
Labor Committee and
February 2004
In the He Yi factory in China, workers are paid less than the
minimum wage, with mandatory overtime, obligatory seven-day work weeks, and
18-20.5 hour shifts, producing "Bobblehead"
dolls of of major league players produced under
licensing agreements with the NFL, NBA, MLB, NCAA, Nascar
and the Collegiate Licensing Company. Other plastic toys, especially small toy
cars, are also produced for Wal-Mart, Disney and Hasbro. Wages are as low as
16.5 cents an hour and just $16.75 for a seven-day, over-100-hour work week.
The workers have actually
smuggled a ?A HREF="cheatsheet.opt.pdf">cheat
sheet?(.pdf, .6MB) out of the factory that management
gave them in preparation for a second Wal-Mart visit planned for
· Read the Toys of
Misery 2004 report or download a
print-ready version.
· These timecards
document 20.5 hour work days and 7 day weeks.
· View the
"cheat sheet" with English translation (.pdf,
.6MB)
· These paystubs document a weekly wage of just over $16, with
almost 36 hours of overtime.
· View photos of the
factory, products, paystubs and workers with captions
· ...or download high-res versions of these images for use by journalists
& organizers.
· Read shipping
data from this factory to the American toy company Hasbro.
· Wal-Mart's Smoking
Gun Rare internal memos smuggled out of a factory in China confirm abuses
and expose Wal-Mart抯
monitoring as a whitewash.
· Read a corporate
profile of Fotoball, Inc. Fotoball
is the American promotion company contracting in He Yi, producing "bobbleheads" under license from the NFL, NHL, MLB,
NBA, NCAA, Collegate Licensing, Barbia,
Nickelodeon, Marvel Comics, Warner Bros and others. (.pdf,
16KB)