Report: Riots break out at Foxconn factory in China

Please don't endanger my keyboard like that again!

'Course it takes most of us 12 years of schooling to really make sure people always look to someone else for their answers.

Sounds like they might have tried to think for themselves. Maybe they are leaving a step out.

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/23/14049889-report-riots-break-out-at-foxconn-factory-in-china?lite



As Dave Barry would say - "I swear, I am not making this up."

smilie!

And I wasn't being sarcastic. I'm really wondering if it will start to seem "not worth it" or "too uncertain" to manufacture overseas.

And I'm not above flogging "instability." Or the concept of "blood iPhones."

Right now the Chinese government says nobody died and I can't find one picture of the riot in progress. Everything seems to be aftermath. But how did they manage to turn over a cop car? And where did the rumor of ten dead come from?

The lower our pay the more the rich will make.

under POTUS of both Parties.

Wow.

I suggest you take a look at real wages over the past 30 - 40 years - among other economic data. Where do you think the vast wealth that has been transferred to the 1% has come from?

Yes, wages suck in the US and the workers are getting the shaft HOWEVER we still don't have it nearly as bad as those folks at Foxxcom and shame on you for likening our situation to theirs!

If things were as sucky for US workers as China then WHY do companies send work to China?

Yeah, hyperbole.

You could make the very valid point about US wages without it.

Julie--who lives the low wage nightmare for real and knows it ain't like the China nightmare

that I left that impression or distressed you. I have been a low-wage worker myself for long stretches of time in my life (and feel lucky that that is not the case now) and my own daughter is stuck trying to support a family on minimum wage jobs. I would never either dismiss the sufferings and oppressions of the workers who are the victims of the multi-nationals abroad, or at home - but neither am I unaware that we are not yet consigned to the Company Barracks and Store under armed guards. If it sounded as if that's what I meant, I can understand your original comment - which had baffled me.

The post I responded to said:


I took the writer to be saying that the system we would have under Romney would be "The lower our pay the more the rich will make." I merely pointed out that that is indeed the case and has been for some time - armed guards or no.

I regret that I left the impression I was making light of the plight of workers - in China or anywhere.

Has Rmoney come out and made his statement yet condemning President Obama for apologizing to the rioters yet?

Other photos show debris strewn around the Foxconn compound and in one case, an overturned guard tower.

Yes, the standard accoutrement for any factory: The guard tower. I wonder if they use the model with machine guns and search lights.

if you don't count the Prison-Industrial-Complex.

http://www.engadget.com/photos/foxconns-taiyuan-plant-on-riot-facilities-damaged/#5308547

That plant makes some components for the iphone 5. Apparently a worker was beaten and this is the reason for the riot, it was the last straw for people who have long complained about harsh conditions imposed by management.

The lines of riot police remind me of home.

Thanks for posting the visuals.

After their little sham "investigation" of the plant last year...

that I'm sure they won't feel compelled to comment on it.

I'm beginning to feel ridiculously righteous for avoiding their products. Their business model stinks.

I'm sure what I'm typing on is no more righteous, but I know what Apple is doing and has done for years.

According to WantChinaTimes in January, Terry Gou, the head of Hon Hai (Foxconn), the largest contract manufacturer in the world, had this to say at a recent meeting with his senior managers:

"Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache," said Hon Hai chairman Terry Gou at a recent year-end party, adding that he wants to learn from Chin Shih-chien, director of the Taipei Zoo, regarding how animals should be managed.



http://www.politiscoop.com/us-politics/wisconsin-politics/1531-workers-refuse-to-be-bained-riots-break-out-at-foxconn-factory-in-china.html

People often joke about horrible things. That is part of what humor is for.

.. and posted similar article in GD. Anyway, this is the investment classes worst nightmare. If people in their sweatshops in China and elsewhere start demanding fair wages and treatment, the game is over.