Wal-Mart Gets Sued, Hong Kong Gets Disney Land
In what can only be described as a mediocre week for Asians, a labor rights suit filed against Wal-Mart could cost the company billions. Wal-Mart, the single largest piggy bank robbing corporation the world will ever see, has been accused of treating their foreign workers with indecency. With over $287 billion in annual sales, the corporate Goliath took a stone right to the temple from the workers of five different countries including China and Bangladesh. The suit claims that the production factories overseas, which keep the price of goods down for the bargain buyers in America, are violating the rights of their workers.
Listed in the case are 16 Jane and John Does. With claims by two of the John’s being that, “We were forced to work three months with no pay, forced to work unpaid overtime, and not given any holiday time off.” Sounds like an indentured servant to me. As funny as that term sounds, post Civil-War Era, it isn’t too far off.
Contemplate this analogy. Wal-Mart (land owners) has accumulated over 5,000 factories overseas in countries like Swaziland, Nicaragua, and Indonesia (think individual states instead of countries) and they give these people (poor folk) opportunities to meet quotas and earn equity (keeping their own plots of land to farm) in the company. If they don’t meet quotas, they aren’t paid and as the suit claims, sometimes wages are withheld for months along with vacation time and overtime pay. If a worker were to quit, the wages would be given to those who stay on the job. Just like an indentured servant if you ask me.
One of the Jane’s had it the worst. She claimed to have been locked inside the factory overnight with no way to exit, not even for a hit of tobacco, until she reached her quota for the evening. This Jane said, “I was forced to work from 7 AM until 10 PM everyday for two weeks straight. When I didn’t reach my quota I would be locked inside over night.”
Some workers were hit with switches if they took long breaks. Another was slapped in the face repeatedly until her nose bled. Now I know the picture that’s coming to your head is Master Reynolds slapping Kizzie around, but that’s not the case. The bosses overseas have the same ethnic background as the workers. Power just unfortunately corrupts.
On a much more disturbing note, Hong Kong celebrated the grand opening of Disney Land this past week. I would’ve thought that old Walt would’ve been over there along time ago judging by the faces of the wooden figures in It’s A Small World After All. The ride believed by many to be an apocalyptic prediction of the growing Asian population eventually taking over the entire world leaving nothing but Asians on the planet. Thus causing it to be a small world since every human would look alike. And if you’ve ever been on that ride, you know what I’m talking about; all the wooden figures have slanted eyes.
Just days after the opening, however, a lawsuit was filed against Walt Disney for the mistreatment of the Chinese employees. The suit claimed the American workers were, “Hoarding all the good jobs such as Spider-Man and Captain America, along with other minor jobs like ride operator and vendor. This forced the natives to clean shit up after the filthy Americans and take undesired jobs such as sketch artists, group photo takers, and jugglers.”
Also included in the suit was the mistreatment of some of the visitors to the park. One man claimed to be walking peacefully with his wife, four children, and 31 cousins when he was tackled and bitch-slapped by Goofy. Mickey Mouse, costumed by Tom Yung-Wang, fought off Goofy by beating him incessantly with a large iron bar.
Nevertheless, park officials kept the gates open to the public amidst all the chaos. It wasn’t until Senior Official George Yung, found a disturbing display while doing his routine walk through. It seems as though a particular ride had been truly terrorized by an unidentified Pied Piper. The wooden people of It’s A Small World After All had been replaced with live Asian children. This directly breached the contract signed by Disney and the Hong Kong government as it was understood only Asian midgets were to be used on the ride.
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