China: NLC report on Chinese CE factories uncovers deplorable conditions
I don’t know why, especially after so many years of seeing exactly this kind of news on every website in existence (except those of the companies guilty for outsourcing like this, obviously), but I find this completely disgusting. What the hell is wrong with people?
I honestly think that from now on we need no more of these half-assed assurances from companies about their ‘desire’ to have good working conditions for their employees, and the employees of the companies they give contracts to, but we need video instead. I WANT FUCKING VIDEO. We need something that actually serves as physical evidence of workers’ well-beings, like the 360 degree rotational cameras that allow you to see the kind of house you’re looking at on a real-estate website without actually being there- we need these in factories. Yeah, it’s hard to expect companies in foreign countries to follow such a requirement, but not impossible- not for the huge contracts they’re getting and how cheap it is to buy a damned webcam.
All of this is of course putting aside the horribly unethical system of outsourcing in general. The author of this article is correct, whether they ‘knew’ the conditions of these factories or not, all of these companies are implicit. They knew that there had to be some catch in such cheap offers for the contracts, but instead of investigating they simply let it go to the lowest bidder and hope for the best. They’re fucking criminals if they see the warning signs and don’t bother checking it out, like ignoring a woman’s screams outside and just getting in your car and driving away- lack of action is criminal. The best part is that this isn’t going to affect stock prices at all, no one’s going to care since it’s the same story that’s been ran a million times before. We need better international laws- the UN should be able to have this company wiped from existence for violating basic human rights to life, and the ones who gave the contracts to companies like this should get JAIL TIME. Fuck ‘fines’, give them something to actually worry about in the future.
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