Workers’ Resistance at Maersk Dongguan

It has come to our notice that your two factories in HuiZhou, China, has poisoned at least 300 of your workers who were found with much higher than normal level of cadmium last year, and at least six of them has already being officially diagnosis as cadmium poisoning. We are aware of the fact that cadmium is a toxic chemical that must be handled with care. However, you make your workers to process cadmium with little protection and no OSH training for years, which resulted in wide scale poisoning among hundreds of workers. In addition to this, it was also widely reported that there might be serious community pollution by your company. One environmental group found that there were higher than normal level of cadmium in the community.

Investigation into Maersk Qingdao and Dongguan (abridged) Globalization Monitor 15 April 2011 In general, Maersk’s plants in China are still far from satisfactory as far as labour…

18 Feb, 2011 On the night of 16th February, 2011, there was an industrial accident occurred in Maersk Container Industry Dongguan (MCID). A welder accidentally fell down at work and then was…

http://www.information.dk/228463 by Dannish newspaper: 26 March 2010 (in Dannish only) 'Jeg er skuffet over Mærsk' Mærsk afviser anklager om farlige arbejdsforhold og ulovlige…

http://www.information.dk/228623 29 March 2010 (in Dannish only) Kritik af nye regler hos Mærsk Mærsk har atter indført skrappe regler for de ansatte på containerfabrik, der har…

Mærsk-arbejders død skaber kemikaliestrid 21 March 2010 (in Dannish only) http://www.information.dk/227856 Af: Peter Rasmussen Anklage: Mærsk laver ulovlige aftaler for at slippe af…

Mærsk-arbejders død skaber kemikaliestrid 21 March 2010 (in Dannish only) Skrevet af: Peter Rasmussen http://www.information.dk/227950 Oprettet 22/03/2010 - 20:30 Mærsk afviser at…

Mr. Mo Desong worked for MCID (Maersk Container Industry Dongguan Ltd) for three years since 2006. He died on October 30, 2009, after falling ill nine months earlier. He was diagnosed as…

Reinstate Unlawfully Dismissed Workers In early March A.P.Moller-Maersk commissioned Impactt and CRECEA to conduct auditing on MCID (Maersk Container Industry Dongguan Ltd). MCID was…

I was refused the right to attend a meeting today between ten unlawfully dismissed workers of MCID and Mr. Hultengren, the managing director of MCID. Mr. Hultengren accused me of making death threats against him and his managers. This is a false accusation. I was employed by MCID in August 2006. I was never told by the company that there are potential occupational hazards. In March 2008 I began to have hearing problems, and was admitted to hospital for two weeks to have medical checks and treatment. MCID is required to provide the hospital with the Environmental Assessment Report for further diagnosis.