Group accuses Disney of using sweat shops

NEW YORK, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- The National Labor Committee Thursday claimed two Chinese factories making books for the Walt Disney Co. were exploiting their workers.

NLC Director Charles Kernaghan showed a videotape during a news conference in New York of workers saying they were injured while working in Hung Hing and Nord Race factories, CNN reported.

The workers, with their faces hidden, displayed bandaged fingers and cut hands. They made claims of oppressive conditions including extreme heat, long hours and forced, unpaid overtime.

"There's blood on this book," Kernaghan said, holding up a Disney book made in China.

Disney spokesman Greg Foster told CNN he had not seen Kernaghan's tape, but Disney "takes claims such as those raised today by the NLC very seriously."

The videotape was made by a Hong Kong-based group called Students and Academics against Corporate Misbehavior, CNN said.

The NLC is the anti-sweatshop advocacy group that once exposed labor abuses in apparel produced for Kathie Lee Gifford's clothing line.