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Mistreated Foxconn Brazil Workers Threaten Strike

Posted by samzenpus on from the common-theme dept.

An anonymous reader writes "More bad news comes from Apple's iDevice manufacturing partner Foxconn that is sure to ruffle the feathers of Apple fans. From the story: 'Factory workers at a Foxconn plant in Jundiaí, Brazil are complaining of overcrowded buses, poor food and a lack of water and have threatened to strike unless the issues are resolved by May 3. According to a report by Brazil's Tech Guru (Google Translation), over 2,500 Foxconn employees have complained about conditions at the factory. Workers reportedly met last Monday to raise the concerns and have given the company 10 days to address them.'"

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  1. Whay would Marx say? by colinrichardday · · Score: 5, Funny

    Workers of the world unite! The only thing you have to lose are your iPads!

    1. Re:Whay would Marx say? by kyrio · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The striking employees won't be losing any iProducts. They can't afford them in the first place.

  2. Ummm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    This plant has nothing to do with Apple. They make XBoxes.

    1. Re:Ummm by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Mentioning Apple gets the page hits.

      New media is a giant vacuous whore like old media,

  3. Re:Brazil workers have more rights then ones in Ch by TWX · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is the kind of thing that I think needs to make the news, the differences between workers' rights in different countries, especially as there are more pushes to reduce workers' rights in the United States. I'm gathering that Brazil is one nation that has gone through a similar process that the US has, with a labor movement that secured legal rights for workers. Obviously China is still figuring that out, and I am not surprised when Chinese companies run afoul of labor laws in other countries when they take production overseas, as they've never been forced to reform at home like these other countries require.

    The more reforms China forces on their companies the more expensive those goods become, and the less desirable it is to send manufacturing there. It's a race to the bottom only retarded by workers everywhere forcing conditions to change.

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  4. Re:Translation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    -1, only in America are unions hated so much. You'll never see positive union viewpoints on the news without them being portrayed as combative.

  5. Re:Microsoft Factory? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Lots of products are made in Jundiai, Including iPhones as of December 2011.