DISNEY ˇV TO END SWEATSHOPS IN CHINA NOW!

To:  International Labor Standards of The Walt Disney Company

Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) is a new Hong Kong-based nonprofit organization founded in June 2005, led by students, scholars, and labor activists. We have currently around 100 academic advisors serving on board. Our aim is to monitor corporate behavior and to advocate for workersˇ¦ rights in China.

Before the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland, the 5th theme park of Disney, on 12 September 2005, SACOM with a group of university student activists who identified themselves as ˇ§Disney Hunterˇ¨ launched the ˇ§Looking for Mickey Mouseˇ¦s Conscienceˇ¨ Campaign.

Disneyˇ¦s products such as childrenˇ¦s books and toys are made with the blood, sweat, and tears of young Chinese workers. ˇ§Disney has a wide audience and should show its leadership in promoting global sustainability. But tragically it has failed to do so,ˇ¨ commented by SACOM (for the full research reports in English and Chinese published in 2005, 2006 and 2007, visit www.sacom.hk).

Disney should do the right thing:

(1) to ensure it supplier factories comply with Chinese labor laws;
(2) to give every Chinese worker at every Disney supplier a written labor contract and a copy of Disneyˇ¦s Code of Conduct in Chinese;
(3) to collaborate with independent NGOs to provide workers at all Disney suppliers with labor rights training;
(4) to respect workersˇ¦ rights to bargain collectively by facilitating the formation of mechanisms of worker representation at all Disney suppliers.

Contact SACOM to join the ˇ§Looking for Mickey Mouseˇ¦s Conscienceˇ¨ Campaign in 2007
Mailing Address: P.O.Box No. 79583, Mongkok Post Office, HONG KONG
Tel.: (852) 2392 5464
Fax: (852) 2392 5463
Email: sacom@sacom.hk
Website: www.sacom.hk

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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