Nine Dragons Paper (Holdings) Ltd with a paper recycling plant in China’s Guangdong province, has the provincial trade unions outraged at by its labour practices but yet it denies the “sweatshop” accusation made by Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM).
The Union did however report that the plant needs to ease up on the way
workers are treated, stipulating in its report that the company has
been pushing workers to work overtime for better wages and penalising
them with fines. While workers were paid above the country’s minimum
wage, most of it was earned working overtime and approximately 5,000
employees were fined up to 1.07 million yuan, Shanghai Daily reports.
Two employees were killed and 49 others injured in 51 accidents last
year.
It is said that the company plans to invest US$800 million and more
than double production capacity by 2009, and could become Asia’s
biggest maker of packaging paper.
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