Are you talking about the Chinese slave labor used to make their products?
Chinese FoxConn Workers Riot at Apple Factory
http://www.newsy.com/videos/chinese-foxconn-workers-riot-at-apple-factory
Same shit is happening with my company here in the states which has factories in China also. Our local Chinese boss expects us to work and compete with slave labor.
Does your company have the suicide nets also?
Yup.
That’s the thing.
When the lowest wage in the world, is the largest country in the world, every other nation will go broke.
Every one. No limit...
Uh, no. Apple requires their workers to be paid three times what other workers are paid and did you read the articles? In more accurate reports about the riots the truth came out:
"The clash broke out at a male dormitory for Foxconn workers in Kaoxinxi district in northwest Chengdu. When two security guards called out to stop a thief, some employees with grudges against the security officers took the chance to hinder them and forced them away.—The China Times
The riot occurred because of a police action, not because of working conditions. It was further reported in other news sources that this plant was not even one that made parts for Apple products.
Gee. Alma, facts can be uncomfortable things.
In the report that "affirmed the long hours," the workers complained when the "long hours" were cut to please the international investigators! The workers found that they no longer were able to make as much money in overtime pay, which was one of the reasons they had gone to work at the factories in the first place!
It may be true for your company, which does not require the same thing that Apple does. Apple has Apple paid staff members at the factories to assure that their requirements ARE being complied with. None of the other contractees have that practice from what is being reported. Apple is the only one that monitors what its contract manufacturers do to assure compliance with their requirements.
When open hiring is announced at the FoxConn plants that make Apple products, hundreds of applicants apply for each opening. Slaves do not volunteer to work at slave labor. The reports of "slave labor" conditions were retracted when it turned out they came from a "reporter," Mike Daisey, who has admitted he made up much of his monologue "The Agony and Ecstacy of Steve Jobs" as entertainment. His "report," which was excerpted on NPR, gave rise to the flurry of bad press about slave labor in the FoxConn factories was retracted by NPR:
"RETRACTING "MR. DAISEY AND THE APPLE FACTORY" 03.16.2012I have difficult news. We've learned that Mike Daisey's story about Apple in China - which we broadcast in January - contained significant fabrications. We're retracting the story because we can’t vouch for its truth. This is not a story we commissioned. It was an excerpt of Mike Daisey's acclaimed one-man show "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," in which he talks about visiting a factory in China that makes iPhones and other Apple products.
The China correspondent for the public radio show Marketplace tracked down the interpreter that Daisey hired when he visited Shenzhen China. The interpreter disputed much of what Daisey has been saying on stage and on our show. On this week's episode of This American Life, we will devote the entire hour to detailing the errors in "Mr. Daisey Goes to the Apple Factory."
Daisey lied to me and to This American Life producer Brian Reed during the fact checking we did on the story, before it was broadcast. That doesn't excuse the fact that we never should've put this on the air. In the end, this was our mistake.
We're horrified to have let something like this onto public radio. Many dedicated reporters and editors - our friends and colleagues - have worked for years to build the reputation for accuracy and integrity that the journalism on public radio enjoys. It's trusted by so many people for good reason. Our program adheres to the same journalistic standards as the other national shows, and in this case, we did not live up to those standards.
Even the reports of horrific suicides at the FoxConn factories do not hold up... except as FUD and hype when it is compared to the national figures for the same age group demographic for all of China... and it turns out that it is one quarter of the percentage of the national rate! 75% fewer people in the employ of FoxConn commit suicide than do the general population. It only made headlines because FoxConn makes products for Apple... and it suited Apple's competition to publicize those suicides, despite the fact those SAME plants made their own products!