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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums99 cents/hr., 12 hr. workdays, 7 days a week, no rights. "We have no life."
Who says rethugs have no plan for American jobs?
edit to add context: the above is from Charles Kernaghan, Executive Director of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, discussing his findings of working conditions at Sensata in China.
JohnnyBoots
(2,969 posts)It's fuedalism with corporate power and the MSM as the church to keep the people in check.
CrispyQ
(36,502 posts)The idea of affluence for the masses - the 1% can't stand that. Only they are worthy of having nice things & leisure time. The rest of us should live in squalor & work our entire lives.
They have lost their humanity.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)in the future it could be .... "brother can you spare a couple of bucks"
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)Is similar....
http://www.globallabourrights.org/reports?id=0651
This psychopath - Romney - either:
1. Is aware of this stuff and doesn't give a shit, or
2. Isn't aware of it because he's THAT out of touch
Either way, it's INEXCUSABLE.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)7 times 12 is 84. If they make $83.16 for an 84 hour workweek, then I would say their hourly wage is only 78.45 cents an hour.
Because, by my value system, they SHOULD be getting paid time and a half for every hour over 40. Thus an 84 hour workweek would mean 106 hours of pay. (44 times 1.5, plus 40).
Somebody may have already done that to calculate the 99 cents.
IDemo
(16,926 posts)My assumption is they are paid a straight 99 cents per hour regardless of their total weekly hours. So yes, $83.16.
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)My wife is Chinese and is working there while we wait on the American visa to be approved, she gets paid for showing up to work, not based on hours or anything. She frequently has take-home work in addition to what she does at the company. I suppose it's lucky she works a desk job instead of a factory job, but it's still a bad situation no matter what type of job it is, especially if you are a female. But you look at the managers and CEOs and they live just like the ones in the USA. This is what is wrong with free-market capitalism, but guys like Romney just adore this stuff.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)only that I feel that they SHOULD have it, and IF they did have it, as they should, that makes the hourly rate even lower. That's how I would calculate the hourly wage of somebody who worked 84 hours a week and only got paid $83.16, not as if they were paid 99 cents an hour, but rather that they are paid the lower number.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)and pronto!
IDemo
(16,926 posts)Z_I_Peevey
(2,783 posts)With much, much more info.
This is the question Charles Kernaghan, director of the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights, is asking Bain Capital:
Why is Bain Capital refusing to tell the truth to the American people, acknowledging that Sensata Technologies pays their young women workers in China just 99 cents to $1.35 an hour to work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week? Does Bain Capital care that the young women working in Sensata factories in China have no freedom of religion, no freedom of speech, no political freedoms and no right to the International Labor Organizations internationally recognized labor rights standards? The American people deserve an answer.
- Charles Kernaghan
Director, Institute for Global Labor and Human Rights
We know of at least four U.S.-owned Sensata/Bain factories in China, including a large manufacturing facility in northern Jiangsu Province, which was built by the Government of China for Sensata. Much of the machinery that is moved into the new plant in Jiangsu is from the Freeport, Illinois factory Sensata is shutting down on November 5, the day before the Presidential Election in the U.S.
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)99 cents is equivalent to around 6 Chinese Renminbi. So a 12 hour workday makes you around 72 RMB. In one month, assuming you work every single day for 12 hours, you make around 2100 RMB. Rent for a cheap apartment is around 600 RMB if you are lucky, but it's usually much more due to the housing situation. A diet low in meat and overall nutritional value will cost you around 30 RMB per day. Let's say you splurge a couple of times per month and end up spending 1000 RMB on food overall. Utilities may cost 200 RMB per month. Since you work at one of these factories, you're probably a girl, and girls in China enjoy shopping just as much as American girls. So working 12 hours EVERY day leaves you 300 RMB, or around $50 to shop or for other discretionary spending.
Matariki
(18,775 posts)they're too exhausted to fight those conditions.