You know...Apple has done a metric sh-t ton in improving the working conditions for these people. From where they were 4 years ago to now, it's an absolute night and day comparison...and in a COMMUNIST country.
Apple isn't bound to continue sourcing their components and assembled products from China. The simple fact is that if Apple really wanted to put their nearly 100 billion dollars where their mouth was, they could start moving their production lines to another vendor.
I want you start going to all the factories in America right now that have some sort of labor violation and start your bickering there...because god forbid...no labor violations should EVER occur in the USA.
I am sure their are violations on some scale in the US, but there are also federal labor laws in place to investigate and resolve issues.
Because there are PLENTY of places in America that have working conditions that are pretty rough and worse then the Foxconn lines..whether its shrimp lines or crab lines or recycling lines and so on.
Yes, and the pay scales to the job. Hell I have a friend who goes up to Alaska during salmon season specifically to work on the lines because the pay is fantastic. All the federal labor laws also apply, on top of union collective bargaining agreements. It might be boring, tedious work, but the pay is reflective of that.
The Asian labor force willing to work harder, for longer hours, in more onerous conditions and for considerably less pay than Americans. The American worker is not. That's the American workers problem. If another countries population wants to work hard to get the jobs, then more power to them. Just like Americans don't want to work the fields, the Mexican/Latino workers have no problem doing the labor.
No. You've made that statement several times and it is wholly untrue. As you pointed out just above, there are factories in the US that have similar expectations (long hours, tough work) and if the business supports it, they rarely have a difficult time finding unskilled labor. The problem isn't the type of work, it's what Apple is willing to pay for that labor. If Apple opened a plan in New Mexico assembling say, Apple TV's and paid $15/hr plus benefits, they would have no problem filling positions.
American blue-collar workers for the most part are lazy. So stop blaming Apple for Americans uneducated and unmotivated work force. It been a problem for over the last decade. An entitled population.
A lack of motivated workers isn't the problem. It's that companies like Apple can source products assembled overseas by overworked and underpaid people in factory cities who live bunked up with strangers in dormatories and have a generally low standard of living. Americans and the majority of the rest of the modern countries of this world have much higher standards of living, and as such higher associated costs of living, which results in them demanding greater pay. The work force doesn't drive the industry, the industry drives the workforce. Supply and demand economics apply in the same way to employers as they do to consumers. If there was the demand for process engineers in the US, and the pay was scaled appropriately, we would see an increase in people becoming educated to fill those jobs. The US doesn't have a shortage of labor, the US has a shortage of jobs.
The crux of your argument is that the average unskilled Chinese laborer is willing to work long shifts for little pay. Just because they're willing, doesn't make it right.
