The folks who make your Hasbro Toys

[kingdom warrior]

Why exactly does this surprise anyone? I bet every toy we buy is made in similiar conditions, Mattel, EMCE, BBP etc. Till some company grows a pair and puts the treatment of humans above the bottom line and starts manufacturing here it will continue to be that way.

Yup Gee, 14 million Americans out of work.......wouldn't hurt to bring these jobs back here to get Americans Back to work........

[thunderbolt]

Why exactly does this surprise anyone? I bet every toy we buy is made in similiar conditions, Mattel, EMCE, BBP etc. Till some company grows a pair and puts the treatment of humans above the bottom line and starts manufacturing here it will continue to be that way.

[megoscott]

Rough, rough stuff.

[torgospizza]

Also poses the question...are we as consumers just as guilty for buying these products?

Once we are appraised of the situation, probably so.

[enyawd72]

Wow. Makes me want to never buy another Hasbro anything.

Also poses the question...are we as consumers just as guilty for buying these products?

[samurainoir]

http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0369

The Jet Fair sweatshop in China produces Hasbro's Transformers.*“I challenge Hasbro’s executives to imagine their own sons and daughters working under such miserable sweatshop conditions,”*said Institute director Charles Kernaghan. “It does not have to be this way.”*

Workers housed in filthy, over-crowded dorms, infested with rats and bed bugs.* Workers report they cannot sleep at night from the bed bug bites.
Workers describe factory food at "Pretty much like swine food."
Workers allowed less than 9 minutes to assemble each Hasbro Transformer, for which they are paid 17 cents.
"We are drenched in sweat,"*workers say.* Factory temperatures soar to 104 degrees F in summer.
During peak season, workers toil 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, while earning a take-home wage of just 92 cents an hour.
Workers undergo three body-searches each day, are not permitted to talk or lift their heads to look around, and need permission to use the bathroom.
Hasbro is open to the hiring of 14 and 15-year-olds on a "case-by-case basis."
Workers in the spray paint department fear they are being exposed to dangerous solvents.
There are no fire drills and some emergency exits are locked.
During the slow season, hundreds of workers are fired under false charges so management does not have to pay their legal severance.
Workers are cheated of paid sick leave and maternity leave.
Workers describe their work as mindless, miserable, constantly monotonous, yet furious and exhausting.