Manufacturer The Kardashians Used Paid Workers 8 Cents Per Shirt: Report
Posted on Dec 21, 2011 @ 03:00AM
A clothing manufacturer once used by the Kardashians to produce one of their branded lines paid its Chinese workers a paltry 8 cents per garment, an investigation by a leading human rights advocacy group uncovered.
The allegations about Kardashian products in this post have nothing to do with their products sold at Sears.
China Labor Watch, a nonprofit organization fighting sweatshops in the Communist regime, released the startling findings of their probe, titled 'Investigation of China’s Clothing and Apparel Industry: Excessive Overtime, Student Workers and Exploitative Wage Systems' -- which you can read here.
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The investigation into Bebe, who the Kardashians used to manufacture a branded clothing line, handbags and jewelry with in 2010 -- ran from July to August, this year.
Despite the Kardashians' denials that factories they've used are "strictly policed" and there are no human rights violations, the organization found workers -- predominately students -- were paid based on a piece-rate wage system.
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At the company's Zhejiang Cathaya Clothing Factory, investigators posing undercover as factory workers uncovered that staff were required to iron a total of 1,600 t-shirts each day, with each laborer having to iron between 270 and 400 pieces of clothes.
That amounts to about $21 per day.
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And according to China Labor Watch, staff were routinely working 12 hours a day and six days a week.
That equates to $1.75 per hour.
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According to the findings, violations at the factory include:
* This system does not even provide extra pay per unit made during overtime hours, which would seem to be in clear violation of labor laws.
* As a result of the piece-rate wage system, workers often work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. Some workers even work 15 to 16 hours a day. Investigators saw these workers start work at 8 a.m. and finish it at 11:30 p.m.
* Salaries are not calculated with a base wage.
As Star magazine reported in a world exclusive, the Kardashians - who made $65 million last year - use conditions like "slave labor" and turn a blind eye to shocking working conditions.
The allegations about Kardashian products in this post have nothing to do with their products sold at Sears.
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Posted Wed, 12/21/2011 - 7:01pm
So many reasons not to buy their trashy, cheap junk; but now there's another reason, the exploitation of cheap communist sweat-shop labourers. Do you thing Kendall and Kylie would like to work there during the summer?
Posted Wed, 12/21/2011 - 4:13pm
These filthy scammers would scam anyone they could. But to scam the poorest of the poor is the lowest you can go as a human can go. I hope they enjoy their money in hell. Filthy skanks
Posted Wed, 12/21/2011 - 4:09pm
Does anyone think the Kardashians would care if you needed something or dropped dead in the street? So they wouldnt care about someone working their butt off for next to nothing either as long as they have their profit..
Posted Wed, 12/21/2011 - 3:59pm
Their fan base is less and less each month. They wil all be gone soon. Thank god!
Posted Wed, 12/21/2011 - 3:50pm
Another of about 100 reasons that this whole K family is complete garbage. Starting with their now deceased father who represented murder OJ Simpson, to Kim K sex tape, to their mother pimpin the girls out.
Posted Wed, 12/21/2011 - 3:49pm
Blonde girls will always be prettier. How do you say "bow wow" in Armenian?
Posted Wed, 12/21/2011 - 3:47pm
Didn't their great family friend Kathie Lee also used to run sweat shops for her own greedy line of clothes? Eight cents, and they probably thought they were being ripped off too.
Posted Wed, 12/21/2011 - 3:40pm