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Kardashian Family Linked to “Slave Labor” Sweatshop Scandal

10:54 am, December 21st, 2011

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A watchdog organization is investigating the Kardashians for allegedly using “slave labor” to manufacture the products that have helped them earn millions.

The Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights has informed Star magazine that Chinese sweatshops “where workers are abused and virtually imprisoned” make some of the goods the reality TV stars endorse and sell.

“The Kardashians are in bed with some pretty bad people,” the group’s executive director, Charles Kernaghan, tells the magazine, adding, “They are holding hands with a government that spits on democracy and women’s rights.”

Among the suspected ill-manufactured products are the K-Dash fashion label, the Kris Jenner Kollection and Kim Kardashian’s ShoeDazzle company.

The specific allegations about factory conditions in China’s Guangdong region are unsettling.

According to the report, children as young as 16 live in “squalid” dorms that smell of sewage and work “up to 84 hours” per week for almost no money.

Kernaghan describes the factories as being “like minimum-security prisons.”

The Kardashians are denying knowledge of the alleged abuses.

A rep for the family tells Gossip Cop it’s the “first we are hearing of this and take this very seriously. We are investigating the matter as [the Kardashians] do not condone this.”

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  • just saying

    TMZ just reported they were told several celeb lines are being investigated. Star is not all that reliable & you know if K’s are the target there not going quietly but will take others with them.

  • Cliff Nelsoncjnelson

    Kardashian family knows nothing about labor,let alone sweatshop labor!!!!

  • Chloe

    WOW! I hope this isn’t true. But, it seems everyone is trying to bring down the Kardashians. Plus you can’t believe anything STAR says.

    PETA has the nerve to say something about Kim wearing fur (which I’m not a fur person) but…where the heck was PETA when Sarah Palin and her goons were shooting wolves from a plane? I never saw or heard they sent anything to her in protest. That is why I now turn a deaf ear to PETA.

  • Chris R

    Those kids are no worse of than us….we are slaves to the Kardashians and their antics too!!! Set us free!!

    Um…Chloe, stay on subject. PETA isn’t part of the story here.

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  • Anonymous

    Hey maybe that’s why she was in Haiti. She was looking for new child labor.
    Regardless of how I feel about them I’m pretty sure they didn’t know about this. They don’t care enough to even investigate how their products are being made. All they care about is getting a paycheck. If they did care they would have made sure none of this was happening before it became an issue. Or maybe they would have had their crap made in America and given American’s jobs. Oh wait, that would be less money for them to spend on ugly clothes, a gaudy houses.

  • me2011

    does this really surprise anyone???? oh yaeh, that’s right, this happens because everyone is sooooo jealous of these people…….if it looks, smells, walks, like a dog, oh my guess it is………..just because you have money, does not make you immune to stupid…………

  • me2011

    now does it make sense why kimmy ignored the conditions in haiti??? they are all below her anyways…..right kardahsians

  • http://twitter.com/slvrser Frank

    Like they actually oversee the practices of their businesses. All they care about is how much they’re making and as long as the company isn’t hemorrhaging in debt, they could care less.

  • J_rodriguez51

    slave labor” Oh My gOSH!!!!… KARDASHIANS!!! … LETS GET REAL PEOPLE.. It’s great to know that people can really put a story out there and really want to hurt you ,and all that you’ve accomplished… my opinion) there great and beautiful !!

  • Flyingfroggy316

    Children as young as 16? You know, there’s a word called “teenager.” But I guess when you openly admit that sixteen is a legal working age in countless countries, it doesn’t incite anger as easily as the phrase “Child labor,” does it?

    Seriously, for all we know, this place uses a nearly entire adult staff, with two or three teenagers who are working to support their families in an overcrowded, jobless country, and yet we’re being manipulated into thinking of the deadly child labor institutions of early 1900s America.

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