Intellectual Property
Oct. 9, 2002
Disney Sweatshop Accusations Add Fuel to Fire of Winnie the Pooh Suits
Column by Garry Abrams - Add to the plentiful woes of the Walt Disney Co. a tearful, litigious, wealthy 81-year-old widow who has gone before TV cameras to broadcast her shock over allegations that Winnie the Pooh merchandise was manufactured in a Dickensian sweatshop in Bangladesh where workers were reputedly overworked, cheated of wages, arbitrarily fired and sometimes beaten.
Add to the plentiful woes of the Walt Disney Co. a tearful, litigious, wealthy 81-year-old widow who has gone before TV cameras to broadcast her shock over allegations that Winnie the Pooh merchandise was manufactured in a Dickensian sweatshop in Bangladesh where workers were reputedly overworked,...
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