Fox News is always talking about lowering minimum wage and cutting everything for workers until we get to this.
Working in a Chinese sweatshop for HP, Microsoft, Dell and IBM
A report issued by human rights activists reveals that young migrant workers are labouring under sweatshop conditions for IBM, Microsoft, HP and Dell in a factory in China. Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, the people who put your keyboard keys into place are paid 60 euro cents an hour to do it. And they're not even allowed to raise their heads or go to the toilet...
Taiwanese-owned Meitai factory in Dongguan City, Guangdong province (southeast), employs two thousand young workers, 75% of them women, to produce computer equipment including keyboards and printer cases for Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo, Microsoft and IBM (as we go to press IBM and Dell are yet to confirm this). The damning research, published online by the National Labor Committee, was carried out between June and September of 2008, and updated mid January 2009. When we contacted the companies cited in the report, only Microsoft and HP replied to say that they had been made aware of the report. Both gave similar statements about their commitment to the "fair treatment and safety" of workers contracted to produce their software.
http://observers.france24.com/content/20090212-working-hp-microsoft-china-serving-prison-sentence-sweatshop-dell-ibm-china
Now I don't know anyone who wants to go to work to get beaten so isn't there more incentive to go on welfare. Go to work and die like a slave or get free housing ( That new housing is nice ) free health care, free food and now cell phones.
I'd say its a no brainer.
Working in a Chinese sweatshop for HP, Microsoft, Dell and IBM
A report issued by human rights activists reveals that young migrant workers are labouring under sweatshop conditions for IBM, Microsoft, HP and Dell in a factory in China. Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, the people who put your keyboard keys into place are paid 60 euro cents an hour to do it. And they're not even allowed to raise their heads or go to the toilet...
Taiwanese-owned Meitai factory in Dongguan City, Guangdong province (southeast), employs two thousand young workers, 75% of them women, to produce computer equipment including keyboards and printer cases for Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Lenovo, Microsoft and IBM (as we go to press IBM and Dell are yet to confirm this). The damning research, published online by the National Labor Committee, was carried out between June and September of 2008, and updated mid January 2009. When we contacted the companies cited in the report, only Microsoft and HP replied to say that they had been made aware of the report. Both gave similar statements about their commitment to the "fair treatment and safety" of workers contracted to produce their software.
http://observers.france24.com/content/20090212-working-hp-microsoft-china-serving-prison-sentence-sweatshop-dell-ibm-china
Now I don't know anyone who wants to go to work to get beaten so isn't there more incentive to go on welfare. Go to work and die like a slave or get free housing ( That new housing is nice ) free health care, free food and now cell phones.
I'd say its a no brainer.