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To: John McCarthy who wrote (915)	4/15/2010 12:38:35 AM
From: John McCarthy	of 1182

Labor report: Microsoft outsourcing to sweat shop By HEATHER BOSCH KIRO Radio Listen to Heather's report A national labor group claims Microsoft is using a Chinese sweat shop to make some of its products. According to the National Labor Committee, workers who assemble computer cameras and mouses at the KYE Systems factory, had no life. "The workers themselves literally told us themselves 'We're like prisoners. We have no life. We live to work,'" Director of National Labor Committee Charles Kernaghan told KIRO Radio. Kernaghan said the three year investigation found workers toiling for 15 hours a day, at 65-cents an hour. They're forbidden to talk or use the bathroom. "Fourteen of these workers would share each dorm room. There was no bedding for the workers. They were sleeping on bunk beds," said Kernaghan. He said workers often lie to corporations about the conditions. "Everyone knows the workers are threatened with being fired. If they spoke the truth, they'd be fired tomorrow". Kernaghan believes Microsoft knew what it was doing and violated its own policies, but probably not China's. "Right now what we have is corporations have legal protections for their products and their trademarks, but there are no legal protections in the global economy for human beings who make that product," he said. In a statement sent to the SeattlePI.com, Microsoft said that it is taking the allegations seriously and has launched an investigation. mynorthwest.com CRACKER

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