Chinese workers at Amazon Echo factory overworked and underpaid

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Wolfgang claims that he is Westerner?

Aha, it must be a lie.

He swoons for the West, but let his own son adopt Chinese nationality.

Saul

overworked and underpaid

You can hear that almost everywhere.

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China should ban Foxconn.

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seneca Post time: 2018-6-16 09:49
... and encourage Chinese entrepreneurs to squeeze more blood out of their Chinese blue-collar wor ...

As a labor contractor, Foxconn’s function is to act as a “comprador” serving their Western clients. They’re just glorified sweatshops with no added value other than manufacturing. Now there are lots of Chinese OEMs who can do what Foxconn is doing but they also add value to their products by creating their own designs, brands, channels, technologies and standards.

China needs to get out of the so-callled “outsourcing” business because there is little value added to the economy by these sweatshop outfits. Both Germany and Japan — the two leading industrial nations in the world — manufacture only their own branded products and not those of their foreign competitors. Let Foxconn relocate their factories to the USA to manufacture products for their US clients such as Apple, IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, etc. That way, these US companies can help the Trump Administration revive the manufacturing industries in the USA.

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seneca Post time: 2018-6-12 08:49
There is a Chinese angle to it: The employer prefers to hire temp workers, i.e. staff who get one ...

Do you realize that all US retailers do just what you’ve just described? They hire temps for the holiday season which runs from October to January because 50% of their annual sales occur during that period.