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However, according to one guest worker:
"Every month, every week, Chinese workers flee from the factory as they cannot survive all the excessive work hours."
"Our health and minds are broken. Here, nobody takes care of us. It is not a life of a human being. We have no enjoyment or recreation in our daily lives....We have no freedom at all....(W)e do not have time to even call our families each week....We have very little time to even wash our clothes. Exhausted."
At most, Rich Pine workers get one or two days off every two or three months. On a Karen Scott brand production line, they must complete 50 to 60 garments per hour, depending on the sewing complexity.
Besides an exhausting routine, they're housed in a dorm, six to eight workers on double-level bunk beds in 10' x 10' to 12' x 12' rooms. Without showers, buckets are used to wash. Each worker gets two per week, filled with lukewarm water. Dorms are unheated, making them "miserable" in winter. No electric outlets are available, so workers have no television.
Base pay is $180 a month ($2,160 per year), or 86 and a half cents an hour. Workers can earn up to $350 a month with enough overtime. However, they don't know how their wages are calculated so are easily cheated.
Monitoring is a "farce." It's planned, announced in advance, and managers order women to say everything is fine. When Labor Ministry representatives visit, they deal with management, not workers.
"Pseudo healthcare" is provided. Two doctors and a nurse provide it. If medicines are prescribed, workers are on their own, and paid sick days aren't allowed.
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