[Newsbot]

Title: Workers at Canadian Tire factories overseas paid poverty wages, labour groups allege
Category: Business
Posted By: DrCaleb
Date: 2022-11-22 15:21:49
Canadian

[Strutz]

I read this article yesterday and had to laugh at some of the cbc comments about people saying "boycott Canadian Tire". It's not just them but countless companies get their products, whether it be clothing or electronics or almost everything else from countries where workers are underpaid. To take that boycott stand you'd pretty much have to stop buying anything and stop commenting using your device which was also likely made by someone, somewhere, living in poverty.

[Strutz]

Case in point:

$1:

Police beat workers protesting over a pay dispute at the biggest factory for Apple's iPhone, whose new model is delayed by controls imposed as China tries to contain a surge in COVID-19 cases.

Foxconn, the biggest contract assembler of smartphones and other electronics, is struggling to fill orders for the iPhone 14 after thousands of employees walked away from the factory in the central city of Zhengzhou last month following complaints about unsafe working conditions.

On Tuesday, a protest erupted after employees who had traveled long distances to take jobs at the factory complained that the company changed terms of their pay, according to an employee, Li Sanshan.

Li said he quit a catering job when he saw an advertisement promising 25,000 yuan (US$3,500) for two months of work. That would be a significant hike over average pay for this type of work in the area.

After employees arrived, the company said they had to work two additional months at lower pay to receive the 25,000 yuan, according to Li.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/protesting ... -1.6165061

I bet there's lots of people whimpering about waiting for their newest toy who couldn't give a crap about why they have to wait a bit longer.

Just another day in the constantly changing, materialistic world we thrive in.