Labor Activist Charles Kernaghan: Microsoft Must Have Known of Supplier's Worker Abuses

This week, the National Labor Committee's report into the scandalous conditions at the KYE plant in Dongguan City, China, revealed that 16- and 17-year-old workers, often students on their three-month summer break, endure 82-hour work weeks, $.52-an-hour pay, atrocious working conditions, and, often, sexual harassment. KYE makes the Basic Optical Mouse for Microsoft and has used the plant since 2003.

Microsoft was swift to react to the report by the non-profit NLC, which has exposed sweat...