Posted on 04/25/2016 3:30:18 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
In 2013, China Labor Watch (CLW) began investigating the labor conditions of workers at Pegatron Corporation factories in China making products for Apple...
This year, CLW collected 1,261 pay stubs from Pegatron Shanghai workers, 13 times as many as stubs as last year. The documents were gathered with the assistance of 18 Pegatron workers coming from 12 departments...
1) Workers are paid at a rate of 1.82 USD/hour.
2) On average, overtime pay as a percentage of workers’ gross wages is 42.4%.
3) Workers work more than 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. 83.8% workers’ monthly overtime hours exceed 80 hours.
4) In October 2015, 71.1% of workers’ average weekly working hours exceeded Apple 60-hour maximum limit.
5) Pegatron Shanghai workers must participate in an average of 15 minutes of mandatory pre- and post-shift meetings every day, or 90 minutes per week. If we assume that Pegatron Shanghai workers all have hidden, unpaid overtime, as CLW interviews suggest, then the total unpaid wages amount to US$11.85 million
6) The total value of Tim Cook’s stock growth up to February 2016 is equal to the combined annual base wages of 78,847 Pegatron workers.
7) The combined base wages of 1.6 million workers on Apple’s supply chain only accounts for 2.6% of Apple annual revenues.
Prepare for AT LEAST 50% unemployment as ANY American job that can be shipped out is. On top of that, prepare for the Third Worlders imported here to do the rest of the jobs (leaving Americans with 90% unemployment). This is part of reducing our standard of living to that of Asian coolies.
These are not doom & gloom forecasts - this is happening NOW.
Trust me I know.
Maybe....MAYBE...when Apple has their products made in the USA...I’ll by something Apple. Not likely but more likely than under current conditions.
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