Chinese workers at Amazon Echo factory overworked and underpaid

zhihu1

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.

seneca

Saul Post time: 2018-6-11 21:50
overworked and underpaid

You can hear that almost everywhere.

There is a Chinese angle to it: The employer prefers to hire temp workers, i.e. staff who get one-year contracts rather than an open-ended one. This helps save them thousands per worker: No paid leave other than official holidays, no sick leave and so on. It is illegal to hire the same workers for two years on one-year contracts. The company also is guilty of overworking their temp workers through overtime and not paying their workers the full 150% hourly wage for overtime.

But as you correctly said, everywhere else people grumble about being shortchanged by their employers.

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China should ban Foxconn.

seneca

sfphoto Post time: 2018-6-16 00:59
China should ban Foxconn.

... and encourage Chinese entrepreneurs to squeeze more blood out of their Chinese blue-collar workers in order to further undercut any competitive bid from contractors in other parts of the world. We Chinese enrepreneurs need to stick together along with the Party.

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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.