Turns out crucifixes are also being made by sweatshop labor. This sounds like an Onion story -- I'm not sure if I trust it. Anyone care to verify it? The truth is out there.
Excerpt: In the Junxingye factory in China, the mostly young women—including several 15- and 16-year-olds—making crucifixes are forced to work 14 hours to 15½ hours a day, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. or 11:30 p.m., seven days a week. They also work frequent 18-hour and 19-hour shifts ending at 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. Before shipments of crucifixes must leave for the United States, there are even mandatory, all-night 22½-hour to 25-hour shifts, from 8 a.m. straight through to 6:30 a.m. or 9 a.m. the following morning. Workers are routinely at the factory more than 100 hours a week, including being forced to work 51 hours of overtime, which exceeds China’s legal limit by 514 percent. Young women go for months on end without a day off.
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