Are The Kardashians Operating A Sweatshop In China? Posted by The Dirtiest 22 December, 2011 - 2:47 PM

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Looks like the knives are out for our favourite attention seeker. As Kim Kardashian's clothing empire comes under attack from Global Labor and Human Rights.

Expert Charlie Kernaghan has said that the Kardashian's claim that their factories meet basic human rights are ‘absurd and ridiculous’. He has gone on to challenge the Kardashians to open up their factories to his investigators and prove to the world that they aren’t operating sweatshops.

In an exclusive interview with Star Magazine he said. “I would be clearly stunned if these factories were even minimally decent because that isn’t how China operates”

“If they are proud of these factories and they respect humane rights then why don’t they provide a list of the factories and their addresses to the American people?

“When we put our people in factories we find human rights violations, terrifically high production quotas and people being driven like slaves. They treat people like animals. Workers, particularly in the Guangdong Province where their products are made, are denied everything from permission to look up from their work, overtime and even to go the bathroom without asking."

“They don’t even know what a labour right is, they have no idea they exist.”

“We have not yet been in the factories, we don’t have a 100 percent proof that these clothing lines are being made under sweatshop conditions, but I can say if there is even a 10 percent chance that this is a well done factory that is not my experience”.

Kernaghan has even lashed out at celebrity gossip site TMZ for suggesting that the Star had misquoted him saying, ”We don’t know what they are talking about, I don’t disagree with a single thing said so I don’t know what they [TMZ] are saying.”

Looks like 2012 could be a very interesting year for the Kardashian's. Maybe it’s time for them to disappear for a while. Ok that was probably wishful thinking on my behalf I know you love them too much for that to happen.

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