yeahwho
03-29-2012, 06:02 PM
Apple Supplier in China Pledges Big Labor Changes (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/business/apple-supplier-in-china-pledges-changes-in-working-conditions.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all) from NYTimes 3/29/2012
story starts out like this,
Responding to a critical report about its factories, Foxconn, a leading Asian company that makes electronic products for Apple, Dell, Amazon and others, has pledged to sharply curtail the number of working hours in its Chinese factories and significantly increase wages, a move that could improve working conditions across China.
This bugs me to no end.
I don't mean to pick on Apple because I know Microsoft, Dell, HP, Sony, IBM, Motorola, Intel, Sun, Epson, Lexmark, etc. are just as guilty. But Apple is a grossly high end priced product + snooty as fuck. My stupid iPad is the least favorite tech product I've ever purchased.
Manufacturing jobs and skilled technical jobs are in China, but the CEO's stay in California USA. The bulk of retail jobs and stores are here in the USA to get USA money.
3 families on my block had major incomes lost through loss of their jobs the past year. Fuck. I hate to sound all isolationist and stuff but why can't Apple give a guy a job here in the USA? Are they just into communist labor practices?
Large American Capitalist companies have the prime responsibility for monitoring working conditions in "Communist" China.
Greedy fuckers.
story starts out like this,
Responding to a critical report about its factories, Foxconn, a leading Asian company that makes electronic products for Apple, Dell, Amazon and others, has pledged to sharply curtail the number of working hours in its Chinese factories and significantly increase wages, a move that could improve working conditions across China.
This bugs me to no end.
I don't mean to pick on Apple because I know Microsoft, Dell, HP, Sony, IBM, Motorola, Intel, Sun, Epson, Lexmark, etc. are just as guilty. But Apple is a grossly high end priced product + snooty as fuck. My stupid iPad is the least favorite tech product I've ever purchased.
Manufacturing jobs and skilled technical jobs are in China, but the CEO's stay in California USA. The bulk of retail jobs and stores are here in the USA to get USA money.
3 families on my block had major incomes lost through loss of their jobs the past year. Fuck. I hate to sound all isolationist and stuff but why can't Apple give a guy a job here in the USA? Are they just into communist labor practices?
Large American Capitalist companies have the prime responsibility for monitoring working conditions in "Communist" China.
Greedy fuckers.