“Dongguan Qing Xi Juantiway Plastic Factory” isn’t a household name, but you’d probably recognize the products it made for the world’s largest entertainment company: the factory was one of thousands making official products featuring Disney characters. [More]
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AT&T Employees Claim: Idle Company Truck To Run A/C, Get Fired
By 8.24.11
Maybe they’re just more concerned about pollution than about workers’ comfort. TV station KPRC investigated claims from AT&T installation technicians that they’ve been told that they can’t sit in their idling trucks and run the air conditioning to cool off for amounts of time that the company deems “excessive,” even when they’ve been crawling around in attics in the Houston summer heat. [More]
