WalMart Audit Shut Down Purchase from Suspect Chinese Plant Long Before AP Story on N. Korea Workers
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Yahoo News] AFP News - October 6, 2017
Wal-Mart said Thursday it no longer imports fish from a Chinese factory that employed North Koreans after a report said the US retailer may have inadvertently subsidized the nuclear-armed state.
Wal-Mart barred suppliers from using fish from a facility in Hunchun, one of several in the eastern Chinese city that were reported to employ North Korean laborers in slave-like conditions.
Wal-Mart gave the Hunchun facility a "red" rating after it did not cooperate with a company investigation into labor problems, said Wal-Mart spokeswoman Marilee McInnis.
"The welfare and dignity of workers is very important ...
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