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The workers further complained that the "factory has forced them to work many hours overtime, locked them in the factory and signed a 'protection' contract with a 'sweetheart' union, denying the workers freedom of association. Two years earlier, a similar demand for back pay ended when the police raided the workers' peaceful protest leaving a number of workers wounded. Many of those who participated in the demonstration were locked out and never paid". An international campaign put pressure on Puma who eventually agreed to allow an independent investigation into the matter.
Although New Balance tends to make the most out of the fact that it still has some production facilities in the US , critics have pointed out the exploitative conditions that exist not only in its overseas factories but in the US Massachusetts
