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Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Globalization | Chinese workers

"The small dressmakers and the freezer"
I receive this funny stuff today... If you can read french, the story is a little bit strange and cruel...
But I can make a rough translation to you...
There were five little Chinese girls. Although they are very young (14 to 17), they work a lot (12 hours a day) for a little salary (the amount doesn't matter).
Children must not work: this is illegal but the boss is used to pay local police officers to avoid inspection... And when they are decided to do this inspection, the factory is always closed and locked.
But one day, the ventilation system is out. Our little girls are found suffocated, "almost" dead.
The boss has the great idea to send them directly to the crematory. But the foreman disagrees because all the bodies are still warm. It does not matter... The boss decides to put the bodies in wooden boxes and asks to send them into the freezer...
Of course, families of our girls become suspicious and ask where their daughters are. The boss simply answers that they are wandering somewhere...The families don't believe him! He finally accepted that the girls are dead and now stored in the freezer. He, the boss, proposes 1500 euros (1500 $) per family... But the families claim the bodies and refuse the "prices" of their girls' lives...
The story doesn't tell us if the factory is closed and the boss charged...
So, every time you wear or buy Chinese products, have a little thought to those who pay, sometimes with their lives, for your little comfort...

1 Comments:

At 7:17 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Salut!
Ton blog est super interessant. je ne suis pas spécialement attirée par les inventions ni les différentes découvertes scientifiques de notre èremais j'avoue que le tien m'a surpris.
En plus tu racontes des petites histoires drôles ça rend le site conviviale.
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