The reason for unions - Microsoft's China sweatshop

[bik0]

Showing Chinese sweatshop workers slumped over their desks with exhaustion, it is an image that Microsoft won't want the world to see.

Employed for gruelling 15-hour shifts, in appalling conditions and 86f heat, many fall asleep on their stations during their meagre ten-minute breaks.

For as little as 34p an hour, the men and women work six or seven days a week, making computer mice and web cams for the American multinational computer company.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266643/Microsofts-Chinese-workforce-tired-stay-awake.html

[laughingliberal]

1. Behold the future of the American work force if unions continue to lose power. nt

[Brickbat]

2. But look! It's nice and clean there! And the company provides nap tables for them!

It doesn't have to be dark and dirty for it to be a sweatshop. If it says "Made in China," you can be pretty sure that the above picture is the BEST condition your product might have been made under.

Take a minute and read the label of everything you use or buy today, and imagine the factory or plant or field it might have been made or grown in. Every single thing. Someone who's working 15 hours a day touched it.

[Wapsie B]

3. I've got an idea. Let all those anti-union workers in this country be sent to a place like this

or worse. Let them have what they so lust for, freedom from those evil unions.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. Love it!

:evilgrin:

[meegbear]

4. ...

Microsoft is not the only company to outsource manufacturing to KYE, but it accounts for about 30 per cent of the factory's work, the NLC said. Companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Samsung, Foxconn, Acer, Logitech and Asus also use KYE Systems.

Microsoft, which exports much of the hardware made at the factory to America, Europe and Japan, said that it is taking the claims seriously and has begun an investigation.

And while we're on the topic of computer manufacturers using sweatshop labor ...

Apple iPod factories reportedly ‘sweatshops’

Apple in the middle of another sweatshop labor dispute

Apple Reveals Sweatshop-like Factory Conditions

[SocialistLez]

8. Exactly why I'm not EVER buying another Apple product. NT

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. If people think this is bad, they should look at Apple

[lonestarnot]

6. Where's your pic?