ADI'S "Sweat And Sweat" Manufacturing Plant

Adidas has a profit of over 1 billion 80 million dollars a year, sponsoring the Olympic Games 7 thousand and 4 million US dollars, and 250 thousand Adidas workers pay 65 cents an hour, and the Olympic Games are equivalent to 250 thousand workers three and a half months' wages.

Adidas's profit in 2004 was $646770453 ($640 million), which increased to $1088393584 (over $1 billion) in 2007, and 68.28% in four years.

(see Adidas financial report).

(Adidas) manufacturing conditions in China, the working conditions of workers, report background: the Olympic Games are over, who are the real winners of Olympic Games, are those athletes?

I don't think so. The real success is the sponsors like Adidas behind the athletes.

Adidas is a brand from Germany, a large multinational company which mainly produces shoes and sportswear. Adidas's shoes and apparel are very popular in all countries, and are known as famous sports brands.

Adidas's profit in 2004 was $646770453 ($640 million), which increased to $1088393584 (over $1 billion) in 2007, and 68.28% in four years.

(see Adidas financial report).

In China, more than 250000 workers from more than 200 factories produce products for Adidas.

According to CLW's report, there are many commonalities in these factories: whether they are Chengda, Wei Li or Chang Yalong, the workers are poorly treated.

Although only 3 factories were investigated, the 3 factories outlined a general picture of Adidas's suppliers in China.

Most Adidas workers are women, aged around twenty, mostly from rural areas, working in factories like Chengda, Wei Li and Chang Yalong.

These workers work on average 6 days a week and work 10 to 12 hours a day.

They live in staff dormitories, with more than 10 employees in each dormitory and a shared bathroom. They have no pension or pension insurance.

Chang Yalong's workers are worried about being late for work because they will be deducted for 2 hours by 5 minutes late.

In Chengda, only when customers come to audit, can they give workers safety protection equipment, such as gloves, respirators and so on.

What's more, honest employees can't even choose their own meals because the factory will automatically remove their meals without permission.

Although some Adidas suppliers, such as Cheng Da, claim that their employees are willing to work overtime, because their wages are very low, they have to volunteer to stay overtime to get overtime pay to maintain and supply their families.

They never dare to imagine having Adidas shoes or other products of Adidas brand, even if these products are made by themselves, because even if they want, they can not achieve hope.

In the face of Adidas suppliers' basic salary, frequent fines and long hours of work, workers only hope that the factory can pay their due wages.

The winners of the real Olympic Games are by no means the 250 thousand Chinese workers on the adidas production line.

Instead, companies like Adidas get maximum profits by lowering labor costs.

In order to sponsor the Olympic Games this year, Adidas spent about 74567918 US dollars (more than 74 million dollars), and then looked at their workers' very low income, less than 65 cents per hour. It is not hard to imagine where the millions of dollars that Adidas paid for the Olympic Games came from - 250 thousand Chinese workers' blood and sweat.

Adidas's sponsorship to the Olympic Games is the wages of these workers for 3 and a half months.

Although Adidas has gained all its fame and wealth, their workers are busy day by day on the production line, hoping to earn even an extra penny.

Who is the biggest beneficiary of Olympic Games?

It is not those ordinary spectators. Those who can watch the Olympic Games and have the chance to watch the winners and losses of athletes are not the athletes who are training hard and standing on the Olympic podium stage after year.

On the contrary, from the original Olympic Games that symbolize hope and peace, those who benefit most are those like Adidas.

However, it is hard for employees working in Adidas's supply factories to equate the symbols.

For this reason, CLW has made a corresponding investigation and visit to the three factories of the Adidas factories in China, including the Zhongshan foundry factory, "Chang Ye long sporting goods Co., Ltd.", "Zhongshan Weili Textile Co. Ltd." and "Chengda Shoes Co., Ltd.".

According to CLW's survey of the three suppliers, the production conditions of the Adidas workers in the Chinese factory are relatively poor. The suppliers do not restrain the factories according to the Adidas's behavior standard. The production conditions of the workers are not optimistic. On the contrary, Chinese workers are paid low wages, extra overtime time, paid accommodation and catering conditions, no social insurance coverage, difficult leave, difficult labor, fines, wage reduction, poor safety protection facilities and so on.

"No, it's impossible." this is the advertisement of Adidas. However, from the report of CLW, the survey report of Chengda, Wei Li and Chang Yalong shows that for Adidas, there seems to be another thing that is impossible: it seems impossible for the staff to work humanized.

The investigation report of Zhongshan 1: Chang Ye long sporting goods Co., Ltd.. Survey report of 2: Weili Textile Co., Ltd., 3:, survey report of Dongguan Cheng dada shoe industry Co., Ltd., among them, the typical characteristics of the above three Adidas generation factories for workers' bad production conditions are as follows: low wages: the wages of workers of the Chang Chang long long sporting goods Co., Ltd., the wages of the workers in pre employment training are calculated on time, with the standard of 35 yuan per day, and the base salary is 770 yuan, but the actual wage is calculated according to the monthly personal output. According to the simple degree of production, the average monthly salary of the general employees is about 700 yuan, and only a small number of departmental staff pay relatively high, which can reach 2000 yuan. Adidas manufacturing in China, the working conditions of workers. Chinese labor observation August 28, 2008 report is divided into three parts.

The employees of Zhongshan Weili Textile Co., Ltd. are mostly piecework wage, counting by flow card, and the monthly salary they get can be roughly 1100 yuan to 1200 yuan, but only occasionally the salary will be higher, reaching 1900 yuan.

Dongguan Chengda shoe industry Co., Ltd. workers calculate wages according to the piecework way, and the workers who work overtime for three hours usually do not have overtime pay, and they are still piecework wages.

The average employee may deduct the cost of living every month and may get a salary of 1100 yuan to 1300 yuan.

Additional overtime: the workers in the Cheong lung lung sporting goods Co., Ltd., from the 7:20-8:20 hours in the morning (for different departments), have had no rest time except for 1.5 hours at noon.

Especially during the peak season, employees do not even take a day off for a month.

Zhongshan Weili Textile Co., Ltd. usually works for 11 hours a day, six days a week. If it is in the peak season, the workers will work overtime until 23:00 or even 24:00.

During work, there is no time for rest. There is only a few minutes to go to the water or to the bathroom.

Dongguan Chengda Shoes Co., Ltd. works 10 hours to 11 hours a day, basically six days a week, but if there is a rush to work, it will also work on Sunday.

Some departments work on shifts and night shifts, and work 12 hours a month.

Paid accommodation and food conditions: Chang Chang long long sporting goods Co., Ltd., the monthly salary of accommodation staff should be deducted from 15 yuan as the accommodation fee.

The staff in the dining hall need to book in advance, and the new factory area will be 4 yuan or 2.5 yuan. The old factory area will be 6 yuan, 4.5 yuan and 2.5 yuan per meal.

Zhongshan Wei Li Textile Co., Ltd. takes a piece of wage worker to live in the factory area to deduct 45 yuan from the salary every month, while the worker who takes the time salary wages needs to deduct more than 50 yuan from the salary, the dormitory is 10 people, and does not have the independent shower room and the bathroom.

The workers have 6 canteens, the food is low grade and medium and high grade, the low grade monthly deducts 165 yuan from the worker's wages, but the middle and high grade needs to deduct 249 yuan from the wages every month.

If there is no application, the workers who eat in the canteen will be fined for one month's meals.

The workers who want to stay in Chengda Shoes Co., Ltd. need to deduct 40 yuan from their wages, but the cost of water and electricity should be deducted separately.

Employees in the dining hall need to deduct 160 yuan a month from their wages, and even those who do not eat in the canteen will be deducted by 160 yuan per month.

There is no guarantee for social insurance: the Chang Chang long long sporting goods factory does not take the initiative to purchase statutory social insurance for the factory, but is waiting for the workers to ask for it.

The workers of Chengda shoe factory are not sure whether the factory has bought their own social insurance or what kind of insurance they have bought, and said the payroll did not show.

The factory will buy social insurance for employees and deduct 56 yuan from the worker's salary each month.

Fine and deduct wages: the Chang Yalong sports goods factory has more penalties for employees, and the fine is also more severe. The factory will deduct the worker's wages by the standard of 1 cents and 10 yuan, ask for leave to deduct money, and pay less than 200 yuan for less than one year when leaving.

And the bonus system was abolished in May.

Zhongshan Wei Li factory takes the point as the standard to implement the punishment system. Among them, 1 points are deducted from the wages of workers 15 yuan, 2 points deducted 30 yuan, 3 points deducted 45 yuan, and 9 points will be removed from office.

The bonus of employees needs to be paid according to the production efficiency of the factory, the peak season and the off-season, and the individual performance of the employees, which is about 100 yuan or 200 yuan.

The punishment system of Chengda shoe factory can be divided into: warning, small, heavy, reduced salary, demotion and expulsion. Among them, the warning is 10 yuan each time, and 30 yuan each time, and 90 yuan each time.

The safety protection facilities are poor: the Cheong Chang Lung lung sporting goods factory will only issue gloves when visiting the factory, and it will be completely new.

No air conditioners in the workshop can be ventilated by windows, and no special equipment is inspected by production equipment.

In the production process, some jobs will be exposed to harmful substances, which have strong stimulation and odor characteristics.

In addition, production machines also lead workers to work injuries, but they do not buy social insurance.

There is no air-conditioning in Zhongshan Weili workshop, and the staff density is very close. Employees will feel uncomfortable.

There are more machines in the workshop, and there will often be work-related injuries in the hands. After all, the cost of medical treatment is basically borne by the workers themselves.

In areas where chemicals such as chemicals are allergic, workers do not wear gloves or masks.

The workers in Chengda shoe factory did not provide workers with certain safety training conditions before they went to work. They could only rely on workers to explore themselves in the process of work.

The manual parts of the sewing machine department are constantly exposed to glue, but they do not have any labor protection products such as masks and gloves.

A survey report of changyalong sporting goods Co., Ltd.: company background, Changchang Yalong sporting goods Co., Ltd. was established in 1987. It is located in changyalong industrial town, sukeng management area, Changping Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong province. There are three departments, namely, the creation of the Far East (main production baseball), changyalong (main production soccer), Longyang Chang (main producing gloves).

At present, the company employs nearly 3000 people, and its main business is to produce and export sporting goods.

Products include football, volleyball, American football, baseball, knee pads and baseball gloves.

Customers include: NIKE.UMBRO.FIMA and other phone calls: (0769) 83333308-142/140 through the investigation and interview of employees of Chang Yalong Sports Products Co., Ltd., highlighted the following problems: 1.. The labor contract signed between the factory and the workers is only a form, not the result of the two sides' wishes.

2.. The working hours are longer, and there is no rest day in the peak season or even a month.

(3.) the piecework wage system is applied to most of the workers in the factory, but the workers' hard work can not get the proper wage level.

And employees say that the calculation of their wages is not clear.

4. the factory did not voluntarily buy workers social insurance, but waited for the workers to ask for it.

(5.) factories provide accommodation and meals for workers, but they need to deduct certain expenses from their wages.

6.. During the production process, there is a considerable hidden danger to the safety of employees. There is no strict safety guarantee on the site.