Workers housed in filthy, over-crowded dorms, infested with rats and bed bugs. Workers report they cannot sleep at night from the bed bug bites.
Workers describe factory food as “Pretty much like swine food.”
Workers allowed less than 9 minutes to assemble each Hasbro Transformer, for which they are paid 17 cents.
“We are drenched in sweat,” workers say. Factory temperatures soar to 104 degrees F in summer.
During peak season, workers toil 12-hour shifts, seven days a week, while earning a take-home wage of just 92 cents an hour.
Workers undergo three body-searches each day, are not permitted to talk or lift their heads to look around, and need permission to use the bathroom.
Hasbro is open to the hiring of 14 and 15-year-olds on a “case-by-case basis.”
Workers in the spray paint department fear they are being exposed to dangerous solvents.
There are no fire drills and some emergency exits are locked.
