Li Qiang
Report background:
Adidas is a brand from Germany, which is a large multinational company, mainly producing shoes and sportswear. Adidas shoes and clothing are very popular in all countries, and even honored as a famous sports brand. Adidas' profit in 2004 was 646,770,453 US dollars (640 million US dollars), and in 2007 it increased to 65,438 US dollars+0.088,393,584 US dollars (more than 654,388 billion US dollars), with a four-year profit increase of 68.28%. (See Adidas Annual Financial Report).
In China, more than 25,000 workers in more than 200 factories produce products for Adidas. According to CLW's report, these factories have a lot in common: whether it is Chengda, Weili or Changyelong, the treatment of workers is very poor. Although only three factories were investigated, it gave us an overview of Adidas suppliers in China.
Most employees of Adidas are women, aged around 20. Most of them come from rural areas and work in factories such as Chengda, Weili and Changyelong.
These workers work six days a week on average, and work 10 to 12 hours a day. They live in the staff dormitory, and each dormitory 10 has more than 0 employees, sharing a bathroom. Most of them have no pension and no old-age insurance. The workers in Changyelong are worried about being late for work, because being late for five minutes will deduct their wages for two hours. In Chengda, workers are only given safety protection equipment, such as gloves and masks, when customers come to do audits. What's more, Chengda employees can't even choose their own meals, because the factory will automatically withhold their meals without permission.
Although some suppliers of Adidas, such as Chengda, claim that employees work overtime voluntarily, they have to stay and work overtime voluntarily because of their low wages, so as to earn overtime to survive and support their families. They never dare to imagine owning a pair of Adidas shoes or other products of Adidas brand, even if these products are made by themselves, because even if they want to, they can't realize their hopes. Faced with the basic salary, frequent fines and long working hours provided by Adidas suppliers, workers only hope that the factory can pay their due wages.
The beneficiaries of the real Olympic Games are by no means the 250,000 China workers on Adidas production lines. On the contrary, it is companies like Adidas that get the biggest profits by reducing labor costs. Now Adidas plans to relocate some production lines to other countries, and the workers' blood and sweat have also been dried by them. They left the responsibility to China.
In order to sponsor this year's Olympic Games, Adidas spent about US$ 74,567,965,438+08 (over US$ 74 million). Looking at the extremely low income of their workers, less than 65 cents per hour, it is not difficult to imagine where the millions of dollars paid by Adidas to sponsor the Olympic Games came from-the blood and sweat of 250,000 workers in China. Adidas sponsored the Olympic Games with the wages of these workers for three and a half months. Although Adidas has gained all the fame and fortune from it, their workers are still busy on the production line day after day, hoping to earn even a penny more.
Who is the biggest beneficiary of the Olympic Games? Not ordinary spectators, not those who can watch the Olympics and have the opportunity to watch the athletes win or lose, nor those athletes who train hard year after year and stand on the Olympic podium. On the contrary, enterprises like Adidas benefited the most from this Olympic Games, which was originally a symbol of hope and peace. However, it is difficult for employees working in Adidas supply factory to draw an equal sign with this symbol.
Therefore, CLW made a corresponding investigation and interview on the workers' production situation in three factories of Adidas in China: Nagano Long Sporting Goods Co., Ltd., Zhongshan Weili Textile Co., Ltd. and Dongguan Chengda Shoes Co., Ltd. According to CLW's investigation report on these three suppliers, the production conditions of Adidas' OEM workers in China are relatively poor, and the suppliers have not bound the factory according to Adidas' behavior standards, so the production conditions of the workers are not optimistic. On the contrary, they give China workers low wages, extra overtime hours, paid accommodation, no social insurance, difficult leave, difficult resignation, fines, deduction of wages and poor safety protection facilities.
"Nothing is impossible" is the advertising slogan of Adidas. However, judging from the CLW report and the investigation reports of Chengda, Weili and Changyelong, it seems that there is still one thing that Adidas can't do: it seems impossible to give employees humanized working conditions.
Adidas is made in China, the working conditions of workers.
China labor watch
August 28(th), 2008
The report is divided into three parts:
1: Investigation Report of Changyelong Sporting Goods Co., Ltd.
2. Investigation report of Zhongshan Weili Textile Co., Ltd.
3. Investigation report of Dongguan Chengda Shoes Co., Ltd.
Among them, the typical characteristics of the harsh production conditions of the above three Adidas foundries are as follows:
Low salary:
The wages of workers in Changyelong Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. are calculated on time, according to the daily 35 yuan standard, and the basic salary is 770 yuan, but the actual salary is calculated according to the monthly personal output. According to the difficulty of production, the average monthly salary of general employees is around 700 yuan, and only a few departments have relatively high salaries, which can reach 2,000 yuan.
Most employees of Zhongshan Weili Textile Co., Ltd. are paid by piece, which is counted by process cards. The monthly salary that employees can get is roughly 1 100 yuan to 1200 yuan, but occasionally the salary will be higher, reaching 1900 yuan.
Workers in Dongguan Chengda Shoes Co., Ltd. are also paid by piece. Generally, workers work overtime for three hours without overtime pay, or they are paid by piece. After deducting the living expenses every month, the average employee may get a salary of 1 100 yuan to 1300 yuan.
Extra overtime:
Since the workers of Changyelong Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. start working from 7: 20 am to 8: 20 am (depending on the department), there is basically no rest time except for one and a half hours at noon. Especially in the peak production season, employees don't even have a day off a month.
Zhongshan Weili Textile Co., Ltd. usually works 1 1 hour a day and six days a week. In case of peak season, workers will work overtime until 23 or even 24 o'clock in the evening. During work, there is no rest time, only a few minutes to drink or go to the toilet.
The working hours of workers in Dongguan Chengda Shoes Co., Ltd. are from 10 to1hour every day, which is basically a six-day working system. However, if they have to work on Sunday in an emergency, they will be arranged to take turns to rest. Some departments work in two shifts, day shift and night shift, and work continuously 12 hours, once a month.
Paid accommodation conditions:
Changyelong Sporting Goods Co., Ltd., the accommodation staff should deduct 15 yuan from their salary every month as the accommodation fee. Employees need to make a reservation in advance when punching in the dining hall. The new factory is in 2.5 yuan, 4 yuan, and the old factory is in 2.5 yuan, 4.5 yuan, 6 yuan.
Zhongshan Weili Textile Co., Ltd. deducts 45 yuan from piece rate and 50 yuan from hourly rate every month. Dormitory 10 people, no separate shower room and toilet. Workers have six canteens, and the food is divided into low-grade and medium-grade. Low-grade will be deducted from workers' wages every month 165 yuan, and middle-grade will be deducted 249 yuan every month. Workers who eat in the canteen without applying will be fined for one month's food.
Workers in Chengda shoes need to deduct 40 yuan from their wages if they want to stay, but the water and electricity expenses should be deducted separately. Employees who eat in the canteen need to deduct 160 yuan from their wages every month, and even workers who don't eat in the canteen will deduct 160 yuan from their meals every month.
Without social insurance:
Changyelong Sporting Goods Factory did not take the initiative to buy statutory social insurance for the factory, but waited for the workers to ask for it.
Workers in Chengda Shoes Factory are not sure whether the factory has purchased social security for themselves or what kind of insurance they have purchased, and said that it is not shown on the payroll.
Weili Factory will purchase social insurance for employees, and deduct the 56 yuan insurance premium paid by employees from their wages every month.
Fines and deduction of wages:
Changyelong Sporting Goods Factory imposes many penalties on employees, and the fines are also very severe. The factory will deduct 1 point from the workers' wages, 10 yuan, and deduct 200 yuan's salary if he leaves the company for less than one year. And the bonus system was abolished in May this year.
Sun Yat-sen Weili Factory adopts the penalty system of points system, in which the wages of workers are 1 deduction 15 yuan, 2 deduction for 30 yuan, 3 deduction for 45 yuan and 9 dismissal. The employee's bonus needs to be paid according to the factory's production efficiency, peak season and off-season, and the employee's personal performance, which is about 100 yuan, and also in 200 yuan.
The punishment system of Chengda Shoe Factory is divided into: warning, minor fault, major fault, salary reduction, demotion and dismissal, in which bonus is exempted for each warning 10 yuan; Remember that it is too small, and every time 30 yuan is free of bonuses; Those who record gross demerits will be exempted from the bonus of 90 yuan every time.
Poor safety protection facilities:
Changyelong Sporting Goods Factory will only issue gloves when customers visit the factory, and they are brand-new. Usually, they don't get anything. There is no air conditioning in the workshop, so it can only be ventilated by windows, and there is no special person to check the production equipment. In the production process, some jobs will come into contact with harmful substances, which have strong pungent smell and invasive characteristics. In addition, the production machinery also led to the phenomenon that workers' fingers were injured, but they did not buy social insurance.
There is no air conditioning in Zhongshan Weili workshop, and the density of employees is dense, so employees will feel uncomfortable. There are many production machines in the workshop, and there are often work-related injuries in the hands. The medical expenses after work-related injuries are basically borne by themselves. In places where allergic substances such as chemicals are exposed, workers do not wear gloves, nor do they have labor protection articles such as masks.
Before the workers of Chengda Shoes Factory took up their posts, the factory did not provide certain safety training conditions for the workers, and they had to rely on the workers to explore for themselves in the process of work. Manual workers in the sewing machine department are constantly exposed to glue, but there are no labor protection articles such as masks and gloves. The workers said that they would only make demands when they inspected the factory.
Investigation Report of Changyelong Sporting Goods Co., Ltd.
One: Company background
Changyelong Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. was established in 1987, located in Changyelong Industrial City, Sukeng Management Zone, changping town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province. It has three departments, namely: Founding the Far East (mainly producing baseball), Changyelong (mainly producing football) and Longyangchang (mainly producing gloves). At present, the company has nearly 3,000 employees, and its main business is the production and export of sporting goods. Products include: football, volleyball, American football, baseball, knee pads and baseball gloves. Customers include: Nike. Umbro. FIMA, etc.
Tel: (0769) 83333308-142/140.
Through the investigation and interview of the employees of Changyelong Sporting Goods Co., Ltd., the following problems are highlighted:
1. The labor contract signed by the factory and the workers is only a form, not the result of voluntary participation by both parties.
2. Working hours are long, and there is no rest day in the peak season or even for a month.
The factory implements piecework wage system for most workers, but if workers work too much, they can't get their due wage level. In addition, employees said that their salary calculation method was unclear.
The factory didn't take the initiative to buy social insurance for workers, but waited for workers to ask for it.
The factory provides accommodation for workers, but it needs to deduct some expenses from their wages.
6. In the production process, there are considerable hidden dangers in the safety protection of employees, and the factory has no strict safety protection requirements at the scene.
7. The factory punished the employees more severely and fined them more severely, but the factory did not express the corresponding rewards for the employees.
8. Employees report that there are no trade unions or related organizations in the factory.
9. The factory will train employees before the factory inspection, and prompt workers to say some false treatments that are not in line with the facts, such as giving workers fake paychecks.
10. The factory label and the factory clothes issued to the workers were purchased by the workers themselves.
2. Labor contract
The factory signed a labor contract with the workers. According to the report, after the company served for more than a month, it was in duplicate. The contract period is two years and the probation period is two months. All of them are preserved in the factory. The employee said he didn't have a chance to see it, and the factory urged him to sign it directly, but no one asked to see it. They agreed that there should be no problem in such a big factory.
Three: Working hours
The working hours of the factory vary from department to department, and the working hours are from 7: 20 to 8: 20 in the morning. It is understood that the factory runs every half hour and the three departments change every three months. There is an hour and a half lunch break. The peak season is about10-February, during which some employees even have no rest for a month, and the off-season is about June-September. All overtime will be notified on the same day, and the factory requires overtime. Those who don't want to work overtime should inform the team leader in advance and get permission. Employees start work in the morning and have no rest time except for one and a half hours at noon. If employees need to go to the toilet, they should report to the team leader and sign it, indicating the departure time. Without production targets, the factory promises to get more for more work. However, according to the employee who sewed the ball by hand, in May this year, the employee sewed the ball by hand for more than 3,000 yuan (the employee recorded his daily output) and should get a salary of more than 3,000 yuan. However, because of this extra work, the salary was too high, and the factory underpaid the actual salary by more than 400 yuan for no reason, asking the personnel department to reflect that once the salary was paid, they would only delay and ignore it.
Four: Work remuneration and benefits
The factory requires workers to pay the factory logo of 10 yuan when they go through the entry formalities, and promises to return it in full when they go through the normal resignation formalities. When talking about whether employees who have left the factory can get it back, the employees said that they "can't even think about it." Many employees will not go to the personnel department to get it back for 10 yuan, and they all agree that it is a deposit. For factory clothes, some employees said that they didn't need to be paid, and some employees said that when they first entered the factory, the factory promised that the expenses would not be borne by the employees, but at the same time, the factory had deducted them from the salary (if the employees in the new factory don't want the old factory clothes, they should pay them themselves.
It is understood that employees are paid by the hour during the training period of four or five days after their employment, and whether they work overtime or not, 35 yuan is the standard every day. According to employees, the factory initially promised a basic monthly salary of 770 yuan, working overtime every hour in 4 yuan and working overtime every hour in 6 yuan on Sunday, but the actual salary was calculated according to the monthly personal output. According to the difficulty of production, the sewing department has a minimum of 5 cents/ball and a maximum of 1.7 cents/ball. The average monthly output of employees is about 4,500, and the average monthly salary is about 700 yuan. Hand sewing is relatively high, and some employees even have more than 2,000 yuan. In this factory, except for the packaging department, other departments (winding, box pasting, pad printing, screen printing, peeling, machine printing, sewing and hand sewing) are all paid by piece.
The factory originally promised to pay the salary at the end of each month (one month's salary), but the employees complained that it would be delayed until next month, even April and May, and it was paid in cash, without indicating the payment method.
The factory will issue social insurance only after the workers ask for it themselves. In this regard, the factory does not give any hints, nor does it ask employees whether they need to buy insurance (79 yuan every month).
Employees report that the factory has no paid holidays, no high temperature subsidies, no salary at the end of the year, no holiday gifts and red envelopes. Holidays are generally closed. Some employees said that if overtime is needed, the daily salary will be calculated according to the basic salary and three times the daily salary, while others said that it will be calculated according to three times the daily salary.
Five: Accommodation and accommodation conditions
The factory provides accommodation. Accommodation staff, monthly 15 yuan, including utilities, will be deducted from the salary. Diners in the canteen need to make an appointment before eating (what meals are basically fixed every week), and the dormitory management office has a punch card machine. The new factory area is subject to each meal of 4 yuan and 2.5 yuan, and the old factory area is subject to each meal of 6 yuan, 4.5 yuan and 2.5 yuan. Breakfast is one yuan.
Eating in the dining hall is consistent. Every day, the menu will be posted next to the punch machine for employees to choose. Most employees are satisfied with this and the taste of the food. However, the hygiene of the dining hall still needs to be strengthened, and the disposal of leftovers is also more casual. There are special wooden barrels, and a small amount will be poured directly into the sewer at the entrance of the canteen, which will greatly affect the appetite.
There are always six dormitories, A.B.C.D (old factory) and E.F. (new factory). Each dormitory 10 bed is relatively spacious. Usually, there are about 6 people in a dormitory, with a separate bathroom and hot water supply.
Six: Safety protection
General work, gloves will only be issued when customers visit the factory, and they are brand-new, normal and must be worn, such as screen washing. Unless the gloves are worn out.
There is no air conditioning in the workshop, so it can only be ventilated by windows, and there is no special person to check the production equipment. Because in the workshop, almost everyone's position is almost fixed, so the maintenance of equipment depends on personal cleanliness awareness. In the production process, some posts will be exposed to harmful substances, such as ink, 57 water, screen washing water and so on. These substances have strong pungent odor and characteristics. Because the factory does not issue gloves, some employees' hands will peel off and even dry in winter. If these harmful substances accidentally penetrate into the cracks, it will cause great pain to employees.
It is understood that in the summer of 2006, when the packaging department was established, an employee's right thumb was crushed by the machine, and the iron sheet was caught, so that the whole finger sleeve was crushed, causing the machine to crash and fail to start, so the machine had to be dismantled by the staff. According to employees, the factory gave employees a month's leave (paid). Because employees didn't buy insurance, the factory was not responsible, and the medical expenses were also borne by employees themselves. In this regard, the factory only requires.
Seven: Reward and punishment measures
Employees report that the factory will punish employees from time to time and deduct 1 point from their wages. For example, if they are late or leave early for less than 5 minutes, they need to register. For tardiness 1 times or leaving early 10- 15 minutes, deduct 1 minute, and deduct if it exceeds. It is understood that one day of absenteeism will deduct two days' salary, but most employees say that they are not clear about how the factory calculates it, and the specific deduction is not clear.
It is understood that when employees leave their jobs, 200 yuan will be detained for less than one year. The workers are puzzled and the factory does not give any explanation. In this regard, the workers all have the mentality of "it's unnecessary to leave anyway" or "it's useless to want it, and the factory will definitely not give it", and then they walk away.
The bonus was cancelled in May this year (accounting for 10% of salary). In addition, employees said that there were no other rewards.
Eight: Other circumstances
It is understood that there are no trade unions or other organizations in the factory.
Every workshop has an employee handbook for employees to read. However, employees have repeatedly said that the factory employee handbook is for inspection, and the actual work is quite different from the employee handbook.
Some employees reported that the factory began to promise a monthly food subsidy of 100 yuan, but it didn't.
It is understood that when the customer inspects the factory, the factory will train the employees before the factory inspection. For example, the customer asks whether an employee needs to pay for the factory certificate again. The factory requires employees to answer for free. In fact, they have to hand it over to 30 yuan (60 yuan was reissued in the first half of 2007). For example, if a customer asks how much a meal costs, the factory requires employees to answer for free. In fact, before March, they used a meal card, and 60 yuan/month will be deducted whether employees eat in the canteen or not. For example, if a customer asks whether the factory provides free accommodation, he should also answer yes. Actually, it is 15 yuan per month. For example, if a customer asks if there is a basic salary, he will answer, 690 yuan/month for the first month and 770 yuan every month thereafter. Moreover, he has to answer the hourly salary of the whole factory, and there is no piece-rate salary. What's even more outrageous is that the factory will give each employee a holiday pay slip, and the salary above will be 500 less than the actual salary to 600 yuan. In this regard, the workers' understanding is that "the factory has said that it is a fake salary slip, and there is no need to ask for special details".
There are many boys in this factory. They said that if they didn't enter the factory because of their bad positions, almost all employees would look for jobs while working. What's more, in order to find another job, they use the banner of "cheating to eat and live".