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Apple Sued For Turning Workers Into Slaves
SwiftyNifty writes "Apple employees are putting together a class action lawsuit for not receiving overtime pay. A Lawsuit filed Monday in California seeks class action status alleging that Apple denied technical staffers required overtime pay and meal compensation in violation of state law.
Filed in the US District Court for Southern California, the complaint claims that many Apple employees are routinely subjected to working conditions resembling indentured servitude, or 'modern day slaves,' for lack of better words."
Well, it looks like slashdot's transformation to neocon philosophy is now complete. 90% of the posts thus far have been blaming the victims, making excuses for Apple, or suggesting that they be happy it isn't much worse.
I remember when slashdot was full of smart people with a liberal philosophy, not a bunch douchebag flag waving capitalists.
How racist is the culture at Apple? Do they give appropriate preferences based on race? Are employees of color subject to these greater working hours? This might give them more weight for the slavery argument, otherwise it's just blowing smoke to try to borrow credibility at the expense of the Civil Rights Movement.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Why, my nigger enjoys being a slave! Go on boy, tell em how you like working for me, there's a good nigger.
Ignorant american assumes that nobody else could possibly have any insight into his own country because everyone else on the planet is inferior to the GOD DAMNED FREEEST COUNTRY ON THE PLANET!!!!
FUCK YEAH! If you aren't doing it our way you must be some sort of fucking retard communist!
What the hell is Manchester United? Is this a arena football team or something?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Claims of slavery in the United States are by definition shot through with racial overtones, due to the shameful history of slavery, and the government's refusal to acknowledge or make reparations for something that it once benifited greatly from. Refusal by its citizens to acknowledge this history is racist as well.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Not only you drank the cool-aid, tool, but you bought the whole bourgeois line, hook and sinker.
Oh, one of us has swallowed some Big Lies, but it's not me. Using the word "bourgeois" gives you away. Let me guess: Chomsky is one of your heroes.
I'll gladly watch you squeal when you won't be able to fill-up your SUV any more...
Ah yes, the fundamental, though much too common, misunderstanding of economics and oil production. Hint: we will NEVER run out of oil. EVER.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
Yep, we need to unionize all of those jobs so that there's even more incentive to offshore that work as well.
I'm sure it will be comforting to know that you'd have a high paying job... if you had a job.
Any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.