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Sweatshop Shoes for Ivanka

http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/5025

Publisher:  Against the Current
Date Written:  01/07/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

The factory producing shoes for Ivanka Trump's brand has come under scrutiny for exploitative workplace practices, and for the arrest and disappearance of three labour rights activists who were investigating the place for China Labor Watch.

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Police arrested labor rights activist Hua Haifeng on suspicion of "illegal surveillance," his wife reported to Associated Press on May 30. Hua and two colleagues had lost contact with China Labor Watch this past weekend, said Li Qiang, the head of its New York office.

The activists were investigating a Jiangxi province-based factory owned by Ganzhou Huajian International Shoe City, a supplier for Ivanka Trump's fashion brand. The Huajian Group makes 10,000 to 20,000 pairs of shoes a year for Ivanka Trump's brand, a fraction of the 20 million pairs it produces every year.

The men had documented excessive overtime and sub-minimum wage base salary below minimum wage at the factory, and were also investigating the illegal use of student interns. One of the activists, Su Heng, had been working undercover as an employee at the factory for a month.
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