Well, besides airing tonight's docudrama filled with falsehoods as a way to up ABC's crappy ratings, Disney is also being accused of running a sweatshop in Hong Kong.
Labour rights campaigners have protested outside Hong Kong's Disney theme park accusing Disney of using sweatshop factories in China, a news report said Monday. Workers at three factories making Disney merchandise in China's southern Guangdong province are being paid below the minimum wage and forced to work up to 14 hours a day, according to the protestors.
A report by the Hong Kong-based Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour based on interviews with 50 workers claimed they were paid an hourly wage of 2.19 to 3.14 yuan (27 to 42 US cents) instead of the legal minimum of more than 4 yuan (50 US cents.
Some were forced to work up to 14 hours a day for 30 days a month and all of them are denied overtime pay, the group told Monday's Hong Kong Standard newspaper.
In addition, the group claims, none of the factories offered workers insurance protection against occupational injury or medical and retirement benefits, the newspaper said.
Around 30 members of the action group protested and held up banners outside Hong Kong Disneyland on Sunday.
But it's not so bad, you see, because the Disney spokeswoman said that none of the merchandise is sold there but at other theme parks around the world. Yeah, that makes it all better!
Actually, this isn't the first time the mouse was caught with his pants down. Read about other "Disney sins" here. There's a whole history of stupid shit done by Disney (not including Walt).
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