20.4.15

THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER


PT Nikomas factory in Tangerang, Banten Province, Indonesia. is one of Southeast Asia’s largest garment producers, manufactures goods for Nike, Adidas and Puma.

Factory shifts are supposed to be 10 hours, five days a week, then five hours on the sixth day. But workers routinely were not being paid for additional hours they were made to work each day.

Things are getting better. Factory worker explains; there’s less yelling and calling bad names. … I work in the sewing section, and I’m expected to process 100 shoes per hour. If we don’t meet our quotas, we just get yelled at. Before, they’d be using hands, everything. But now, we just get yelled at. And then the quotas are piled into the next day.”

“The company gives one meal a day, and back then, there were maggots in it sometimes. Now, it just smells bad. There are no longer maggots, but we still can hardly eat it because it stinks. …
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