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Indian Workers Ransack Wistron iPhone Production Plant Over Unpaid Wages
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Apple holds its manufacturers to very strict rules and policies. If there's any violation, those companies must fix the problems or lose their contract. Apple does not pay these workers directly, so whatever the truth is here, it needs to come out.
This type of exploiting agency is very common in many industries and disgusting to their core!
Same for clean, organic food, affordable for (on a global scale) rich people only.
Also shows that capitalism did not create much real value to mankind.
Few countries became rich because most countries are poor. And they need to stay poor to keep the lifestyle in the western world going.
Was waiting for a critical comment like this. Not to worry Tim Apple will be like Teflon for this issue, because this is Apples’ fault. /s
Imo the issue is not capitalism, it's simply human greed. You can use whatever system you want, it will have flaws as the ones running the system are humans.
Yes unfortunately its the same in many areas of Africa. Famine & poverty is rife but they still continue to have children knowing full well that those poor children will suffer and many will die.
Just sad to see this. $7 dollars and there are plenty of billionaires in India.
Probably, this is what is called a move mentality, get a group of people and tell them (with or without reason) that they have been cheated. voila......
Did you read the article? This had nothing to do with Apple, a sub-contractor contracted labor from another firm. Even with a better contractor accountability program than almost any other manufacturer, Apple can hardly be found at fault here, unless it knew about it beforehand and failed to take action, or now that it is clear something is happening, if it fails to take action. Damn those laws in other countries that manufacturers have to abide by, no one gets to re-write them for their benefit.
When you're on the verge of total proverty and living by only with few $$, those things happens naturally. It's hard to belive but it happens with most people in the world. I'm not surprised. Unfortunately the gap between very rich and very poor people is getting frighteningly obvious day by day.
Hate it when these basement living haters always bring up the low wages in 3rd world countries. Low wages compared to the West, but they don't live in the west. Those wages are in line with the country they live in, probably better than average. We should also bring up that if you live in the US, you're already in the top 5% of income earners in the world.
hmmmm, they already do. But I'm sure your advice is well-regarded. In fact Apple has one of the strongest contractor responsibility programs. And yet, crap still happens in China, India, and other places. Like it used to (and probably still does) in the US. Know there is going to be an inspection, and pretty up the plant to hide the abuse from the inspectors. Hence the birth of Labor Unions, like them or not, they serve a well-needed purpose
it is called "prevailing wages", Not saying that these people weren't ripped off by their contractor, sounds like they were, but the capitalist mantra we all learn is that you pay people enough to attract, retain and motivate competent people (never applies to executives though, does it?) and that is at rates in the local labor markets. It would be nice if we established a global minimum set of standards, like TPP, and then all adhered to it.
Maybe they were hungry.
I get that way if I don't have my Snickers.
You're not you when you're hungry
This is why you don’t discuss your pay with your coworkers
There is a global minimum. Its zero. The price you pay people when you fire them and look for other options because some rich Americans interfered in your local economy.
Same thing happens today in the US. The less you make the more children you are likely to have. If it can't be fixed in the US how do you expect it to be fixed over there?
This is contrary to what most economic researchers think. Worldwide poverty has been declining for a 100 years thanks to free markets. The idea that someone can sit on a computer in a rich western country and imagine free markets did little boggles the mind. in the US and most first world countries we are 100-10000 times as rich as we were 100-150 years ago depending on how you measure.
At least Tim has the climate change problem under control.
As we say in Philly, sounds like Wistron F’ed around and found out. Good on those workers. They’re getting paid a pittance anyway, glad to see they told management what’s what.
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