Interviews were not conducted in private. One manager stood nearby. Also, supervisors were all over the floor and easily could have heard any conversation. In additional, some workers may have been serving management as informers. Besides pay, other issues of concern to the workers are that the toilets are not cleaned, there is no potable water and sexual harassment is common, especially from one of the men in the accounting section.
Workers report being treated disrespectfully.
Management at the factory has arbitrarily and illegally fired or suspended a number of workers suspected of engaging in union organizing activities. Such firings and suspensions are illegal under Haitian law. Also, they are abhorrent to people of conscience. Mr. Eisner, not only do you live comfortably on the hundreds of millions of dollars which the Disney company pays you, but you also allow your contractors to pay your workers starvation wages and then punish them for speaking the truth about their pitiful earnings. I hope to learn that Disney has instructed Megatex to respect the workers' right to speak the truth and to organize a union if they wish to.