Child Labour and 15 - Hour Per Day Work in China

According to the "Playfair Alliance" organization that is looking into labour practices in many countries, has revealed that the Chinese industry that is producing goods for the Olympic Games in Beijing, has discovered that Chinese children as young as 12 years are producing Olympic merchandise.

Chinese adults in the Olympic exploitation scheme are getting paid as little as 28 cents per hour for seven days work week. It was found out that those private internal and foreign factory owners are falsifying the employment records and forcing workers to lie about their wages and conditions – according to Playfair Alliance. The Chinese officials in Beijing said that "they are looking into these practices."

As NSC was going to press, a report by the Agence France Presse reports said: "Chinese police have rescued 217 people, including over 20 children that were working as slaves in the Chinese private brick kilns in the Hanan Province. The police have arrested 120 criminal suspects, including many foreign supervisory personnel and exposed shocking labour practices." The Agency also said: "The Chinese unemployed workers were enticed or sent there by inside and outside the country human traffickers to these privately run brick kilns. Upon arrival they were beaten, starved and forced to work long hours without payment" – this was told to the official Xinhua news agency.

The news item also charged that there were found children as young as eight years working as slaves, overworked, underfed and abused by these private business owners of these brick kilns.

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"For a shirt that is made in China and sold in Great Britain at $60, the original selling price by the Chinese shirt makers is only $3.50. British traders get the biggest chunk of profit on the Chinese cheap labour."