Watchdog Finds Wal-Mart Christmas Ornaments Made Under Horrific Sweatshop
Conditions in China
Embargoed until 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, December 12, 2007
The National Labor Committee has found Wal-Mart Christmas ornaments made under
horrific sweatshop conditions in China, including: 10, 12 and 15-hour shifts,
seven days a week, with workers cheated of their wages. Five to six hundred
16-year-old high school students worked in the factory along with some child
workers.
WHO: Charles Kernaghan, Director of the National Labor Committee and
the country's leading anti-sweatshop activist, who recently
exposed sweatshop production for Victoria's Secret, Mattel,
Speedo, and even crucifixes made in China.
WHAT: Press Conference -- to release an explosive new report and
Documentation, including unprecedented internal factory production
orders, photographs of workers on the shop floor and video
footage shot inside the factory which smuggled out. Wal-Mart
ornaments made at the factory will be on display. Disks of the
photos and video footage will be available.
WHERE: Rockefeller Center
SE Corner of 49th Street & Rockefeller Plaza
(West of Fifth Avenue, across the street south of the Tree)
WHEN: 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
CONTACT: Barbara Briggs of National Labor Committee, +1-212-242-3002 or
+1-412-417-9384
SOURCE National Labor Committee
