Mr. Carlos Yin

Carlos Yin, chief administrator at Chentex, in a phone interview disputed claims in the lawsuit and those made by Kernaghan.
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Yin said 700 workers were not fired.Rather, 12 workers were dismissed, after review by Nicaraguan labor officials, for holding an illegal demonstration inside the factory during working hours, he claimed.He also defended Chentex worker pay, saying the average worker makes $150 a month, which he said is higher than most competitors in the country.

Chentex is also under fire from Capitol Hill lawmakers.Reps.
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Carlos Yin, the general manager of Chentex, said in a telephone interview that his company treats its workers well.He accused the union of exagerating problems and he insisted that only 12 union supporters had been fired, all of them union leaders.He said they were dismissed legally, asserting that it was the union leaders who had broken the law by calling a one-hour work stoppage and two-day strike without the workers' approval."We didn't do anything wrong," Mr. Yin said."Nicaraguan law protects the workers very strong, and we can't go against the law."

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Mr. Yin, the factory manager, said all of his workers earn at least the minimum wage, which union leaders say is set unrealistically low in developing countries in order to attract foreign investment.

In attendance were; Nien Hsing Consortium (owners of Chentex) representative Lucas Huang, consortium legal counsel Doris Escalona, Chentex manager Carlos Yin, Garment Workers Federation General Secretary Pedro Ortega, and Harling Bobadilla and Santiago Villalobos of the Chentex union, among others.

Mr. Lucas Wang, Doris Escalona, and Carlos Yin went to the front gates of the Free Trade Zone to bring the union leaders to be reinstated to the factory.
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After eight months of conflict, May 2000 to January 2001, and after intense negotiations to resolve the disputes between the union and company with the participation of national observers; conscious that we must work for national stability and the economic development of the country, that we respect investment and need sources of jobs and dignified wages that help to elevate the standard of living of the Nicaraguan workers, we express to Mr. Lucas Wei Wang, representative of the Nien Hsing consortium and to Mrs Doris Escalona, the consortium's legal representative and to Mr. Carlos Yin, Administrative representative of Chentex the following: That we want and are willing to accept an agreement to definitively end the labor conflict and that we should respect our national and international laws with regard to labor rights and international conventions signed by Nicaragua in the ILO such as freedom of association and union organization and collective bargaining.
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Carlos Yin, the general manager of Chentex, said in a telephone interview that his company treats its workers well.He accused the union of exagerating problems and he insisted that only 12 union supporters had been fired, all of them union leaders.He said they were dismissed legally, asserting that it was the union leaders who had broken the law by calling one-hour work stoppage and two-day strike without the workers' approval.

"We didn't do anything wrong," Mr. Yin said.
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Mr. Yin, the factory manager, said all of his workers earn at least the minimum wage, which union leaders say is set unrealistically low in developing countries in order to attract foreign investment.

Carlos Yin , the general manager of Chentex , said in a telephone interview that his company treats its workers well.He accused the union of exagerating problems and he insisted that only 12 union supporters had been fired , all of them union leaders.He said they were dismissed legally , asserting that it was the union leaders who had broken the law by calling a one-hour work stoppage and two-day strike without the workers' approval.

We didn't do anything wrong , Mr. Yin said.Nicaraguan law protects the workers very strong , and we can't go against the law..

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Mr. Yin , the factory manager , said all of his workers earn at least the minimum wage , which union leaders say is set unrealistically low in developing countries in order to attract foreign investment.

Factory manager Carlos Yin announced that Walmart, their biggest customer, had withdrawn its contract, and that, unless another buyer could be found which would buy jeans on the same massive scale as the US giant, the Nicaraguan factory would have to shut down, permanently.In the United States, labor rights activists have targeted Kohl's stores, which also sell garments sewn at Chentex.Yin said that the primary cause of Walmart's withdrawal was the international campaign "against Chentex," coupled with the unrealistic demands of unionized workers.He said the campaign had demanded the re-instatement of some eleven trade unionists, who had "brought their dismissal upon themselves by asking for a ridiculously high 60% wage hike."

Carlos Yin, the general manager of Chentex, said in a telephone interview that his company treats its workers well.He accused the union of exagerating problems and he insisted that only 12 union supporters had been fired, all of them union leaders.He said they were dismissed legally, asserting that it was the union leaders who had broken the law by calling one-hour work stoppage and two-day strike without the workers' approval.

"We didn't do anything wrong," Mr. Yin said.
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Mr. Yin, the factory manager, said all of his workers earn at least the minimum wage, which union leaders say is set unrealistically low in developing countries in order to attract foreign investment.

But Carlos Yin, an administrator at Chentex, which is owned by a consortium called the Nien Hsing Textile Company, denied that the company had broken any laws or underpaid its workers.He said that it had granted a 25 percent wage increase this year and that anyone who had left the union had done so voluntarily, while many others who had left the company had done so to earn severance pay.

Chentex workers and labor advocates scoffed at that, saying Nicaraguans want to work, considering the poverty and unemployment visible on every street corner, scenes where men who sell candy compete with children who wash windshields.

Mr. Kernaghan's group is known for calling attention to the sweatshop conditions in a Honduran factory that made clothing for the Kathie Lee Gifford label.He said the Chentex workers, who are paid according to a table that sets the cost of each step in sewing a pair of jeans, make $65 to $124 a month.

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Mr. Yin, the administrator, described the Sandinista union leadership as politically motivated.

"They have all the Sandinistas in here," Mr. Yin said."You know Sandinistas?It's like Communism.If they work or not, they want the same salary.We come from a free country.People work hard, they earn more.People work less, they earn less."
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Although Mr. Yin suggested to a reporter that he visit the factory, the invitation was later withdrawn.

In April, the union held a one-hour work stoppage and later a two-day strike.Soon, workers said, the company dismissed the union leaders and began pressing others to leave the group.The leaders appealed the dismissals.But company and labor officials said they were fair, because the leaders had called the strike without consulting the employees and had engaged in sabotage against the factory.

Carlos Yin, the general manager of Chentex, said in a telephone interview that his company treats its workers well.He accused the union of exagerating problems and he insisted that only 12 union supporters had been fired, all of them union leaders.He said they were dismissed legally, asserting that it was the union leaders who had broken the law by calling a one-hour work stoppage and two-day strike without the workers' approval.

"We didn't do anything wrong," Mr. Yin said."Nicaraguan law protects the workers very strong, and we can't go against the law."

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Mr. Yin, the factory manager, said all of his workers earn at least the minimum wage, which union leaders say is set unrealistically low in developing countries in order to attract foreign investment.