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Nightmare on Sesame Street Toys of Misery Made in Abusive Chinese Sweatshops Support Grows for The Decent Working Conditions and Fair Competition Act
             
       
             
 

Young Chinese workers are cheated of their wages as they toil in misery producing Sesame Street K'NEX Toys for export to the U.S. and Europe 

 

Chinese workers producing toys for Disney, Hasbro, RC2 and others work excessive overtime, are cheated of their wages and endure bed bug-infested dorms

 
The anti-sweatshop legislation has been reintroduced in the U.S. Congress. If passed, it will prohibit the import, export or sale of sweatshop goods in the U.S.
 
             
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The labor cost in China to assemble a complex Barbie electric guitar is just 19 cents--less than one half of one percent of the toy’s $39.99 retail price. In fact, Mattel spends 24 times more to advertise the toy--$4.60—than they pay the workers in China to make it. (2007)

 
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