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Wal-Mart’s Supply Chain Oversight Questioned Over Shrimp Farm Labor Abuses
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US
official decries shrimp industry ‘slavery’ [Reuters]
Shrimp
processing in Bangladesh involved widespread use of subcontracted workers to
replace better-paid full-time workers, and significant amounts of child labor.
Laws governing workers hours and safety conditions are often ignored and
promised overtime wages are often not paid, the report said.
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Sweatshop
shrimp [Bangkok Post (Thailand)]
“We
hold our shrimp suppliers to the highest safety and quality standards,” Wal-Mart
spokesman Deisha Galberth told the CNN cable-TV network, “including maintaining
processing plants and packaging facilities that meet or exceed Best Aquaculture
Practices standards set by the Global Aquaculture Alliance.”
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