With workers being made to work 60-90 hours a week with wages between 13 and 28 cents an hour. American companies are actually lowering standards in China by using contractors that slash wages, eliminate benefits, impose excessive forced overtime, deny legal work contracts, withhold wages and fire workers arbitrarily - for example for merely discussing their working conditions or their desire for a union. What Concerned Citizens Can Do. When the wind blows in off the ocean, the metal roofs strain and rattle. It's like being inside a tin can.
Open sewers flow down the dirt streets, which are deeply rutted by erosion.
When it rains the sewage overflows into people's homes. There are no bathrooms, no running water. Thousands depend upon a public faucet, or a broken water main where the people scoop up water. Children can be seen playing and washing in the open sewers. The government doesn't collect garbage.