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We have a great relationship with the Chinese government, they’ve treated us very fairly, and, and what they have done, they actually much like a USA hold us to a higher standard, higher standard in sanitation, higher standard in employment.

“My name is Wendy Queen. I am 21 years old. I am from the * Province. My family plants corns, paddies and potato. I wanted to earn some money so that their life could be easier. At least, I don’t want their life to be too hard. They would work from dawn till night. They would begin to work on the farm at they wake and wouldn’t get back until night. I thought about working in a factory when I was in middle school. At the time, I thought that it would be interesting and exciting to work in a factory. I left my hometown on April 29th this year and then began to look for a job in Shenzhen. At that time, I had a friend working in that factory, who also came from my hometown. So I went to see my friend each day at the factory gate, which is just in front of Wen Yee’s room. ”

“My name is Wen Yee and I come from Hunan Province.”

“He heard my dialect when I was talking with my friend. Then he spoke with me using the same dialect. He asked me where I was from. I didn’t tell him the truth. I said I was from * area. He served for the army in * for a couple of years. So he can speak the * dialect. That’s the way we got to know each other.”

“My girl friend and I work in the same Wal-Mart factory. She works in the old workshop and I work in the new one. I am on the night shift and finish work at 7 in the morning. She begins to work at 7:30 each morning and works overtime until 10 p.m. We don’t have much time to spend together. But whenever there is an opportunity, I’ll cook some delicious food for her.”]

“We like singing Karaoke, shopping around and buying some little things. In that way, we feel more relaxed. Most of the time, we go to Karaoke sing songs and listen to music, and we get in a **.”

“We tend to rent a room outside and cook by ourselves, because the meals offered by the factory are really disgusting. However, the dilemma is, whether you live in the dorm that the factory allocated or not, they always deduct the rent from my wages. You have to no choice but to live inside. If you are going to move out of the dorm, the factory will tell you: you can move out and we will not charge you electricity or water, but rent will still be charged. You see? If we live inside the dorm, we pay not only the rent, but also the utilities, which is charged by how much you use.”

“There are very few fans installed in my * workshop. It’s extremely hot inside. If they plan to install a new fan, then the others will tell us that we can only have one fan with a fan sitter there. In my working position, there’s no one at all. Can you imagine? I am sitting there and dripping sweat all day long. My body never gets dry.”

“Wal-Mart informed the factory that it was going to send people here for inspection and they will tell us how to lie if inspected. For example, the workers must respond that they work six days when asked how many days they work even though they actually work for 7 days.”

“Then we workers don’t dare to say anything wrong because we’re really afraid of being punished by managers. Wal-Mart informs us an advance and has a meeting to teach us how to lie. If you lie well, you’ll be rewarded. If not, you’ll be punished or fired. The workers given a fake pay’s lift and they never let you have the chance to speak out the truth but threaten you to deliver false information.”

“We really work day and night in order to get the wage of less than 3 dollars a day. My mom wants me back home because she feels it’s too toilsome, but I don’t think so. Everybody else here has the same situation as me, if they can do this, I can do it also. I always think about my mom when I am very tired. That would be wonderful if she could be here with me. She takes care of me very well when I am sick. She’ll let me have a good rest, and cooks anything that I like to eat. She’s really very nice to me.”

“I would respectfully like to ask the boss of Wal-Mart to give the Chinese workers some consideration and a chance for a little time off.”

“Customers of Wal-Mart, when you wear expensive clothes, when your children play with high quality toys, think about China and the Far East.”

“Those profits you made and the wonderful life you have are the sweat and tears and overtime working of Chinese people.”

“If one day I encounter a lady who just bought a toy from Wal-Mart, I’ll say: respectable customer, respectable Wal-Mart customer, do you know why you can buy such a cheap toy from Wal-Mart? That’s because we workers work all day every day and night.”

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