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When was the last time you got a 25% raise out of nowhere? Probably not recently! Then again, you probably haven’t been labouring for half a day at a time in a Chinese iPad factory under allegedly godawful work conditions.
Reuters reports that Foxconn workers are getting a pay bump to “1,800 yuan per month and could be further raised above 2,200 yuan if the worker passed a technical examination,” adding that “pay three years ago was 900 yuan a month.” So that’s a pretty nice raise, right? Even if it was granted only after months of continued scrutiny, criticism, and general outrage from around the world.
Except 1,800 yuan is about £180, meaning around £6 a day, or less than a dollar per hour. For reference, a six-piece Chicken McNugget costs £0.75 in China. Good for Foxconn (!/?). [Reuters via VentureBeat]
Well Apple have done more than most other companies for the Chinese people in its production line. I wonder what happens if they start working on other non apple products, do they lose the increase?
Quit claiming you know what other companies may or may not have done. You don’t.
Do you see any other articles about any other companies?
Quick to blame Apple? Do you know exactly what apple have or have not done!
If you think one company alone can cause this issue or fix this issue then you don’t have a clue.
No I don’t see other articles about what others are doing, because the media is obsessed with Apple. As I told you the other day, my newspaper a couple of weeks ago had three stories on some unknown bloke being appointed to run Apple stores and precisely zero about the CEO of Sony stepping aside for it’s well-known head of PlayStation division – but it happened.
You’re an idiot (which appears to be a consensus round these parts) with an unhealthy obsession and love for anything Apple-related.
Get educated on who is doing what!
Comments by Sasha Lezhnev at the Enough Project, a group focused on corporate accountability. “The whole industry has to follow whatever Apple does.”
Read the full article at the ny times. Don’t tell me what I know or don’t know, perhaps you should open your eyes rather than yer mouth.
Since the pay rise is coming from Foxconn and despite this articles title, has nothing to do with Apple I doubt working on non-Apple products will effect it.
While 1,800 yuan may not be much (even in China) it’s still an improvement and a step in the right direction. Let’s hope they can continue to get increased benefits.
The headline of this article is incorrect and may be considered deliberately misleading. Foxconn is giving it’s workers a raise. Neither the source article nor anything else I can find shows that Apple are supplying the money or insisting on the increase, So why are Apple receiving credit?
Because its Gizmodo.
So lets get this right, if something goes wrong at Foxconn you blame Apple, if something good happens at Foxconn, you say it’s nothing to do with Apple.. Get real, a dislike for Apple is what drives such comments!
Maybe that has to do with Apple been the biggest name that Foxconn supplies to.
But seriously this militant Apple fanboyism is really wearing thin, it was pretty funny to begin with, like when you replied to yourself while still signed into your main account and not your secondary “pro-android” account, but now it’s just annoying and idiotic.
To be honest I could care less… You Fandroids can out number me 10-1, 100-1, it don’t matter to me, I ain’t gonna stop, never stop, I speak my mind and don’t give a Fuck!
You Fandroids? Case proven just there. I’m posting this from a Mac, to my right I have an iPhone and somewhere in this room I also have my old iPhone. I have never owned an Android phone, so you alone calling me a fandroid is pretty laughable.
Apple makes good products? Yes. Are they worth the asking price? Hell No.
Come on now Taf, I have seen higher caliber trolling from 4chan when they discuss consoles, just take off those rose-tinted glasses and stop making UK Giz as bad as US Giz.
Ok then Tacos, you tell me what I said was so wrong? I stated that folk are good to jump on Apple because of issues at Foxconn, do you agree this happens?
Then I stated that when things are being put right that the same folk criticising say its nothing to do with Apple as Foxconn is a independent company!
Now please tell me which way is it!
I merely pointed out that some people need to make mind up either way and suggested what motives they may have!
Please do look at the article linked! It’s not militant fanboy ism as you put it! Read what apple is doing yourself.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/apple-announces-independent-factory-inspections/
Please do feel free to respond to the point I’m making!
Never disagreed, people point a lot of the blame at Apple over Foxconn, but like I originally pointed out, that is likely due to Apple been the biggest name Foxconn supplies to.
Things are been put right, look at the links at the bottom of the article. It clearly says Foxconn is the one who are raising these peoples pay,
If you don’t want to, let me helpfully include them –
http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/02/17/foxconn-pay-idINDEE81G0B520120217
http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/17/under-increasing-scrutiny-apple-supplier-foxconn-raises-worker-wages-by-16-25/
Gizmodo like usual has put an unnecessary Apple spin on it.
This could be very much due to the pressure on Foxconn lately over the working conditions which also has pulled Apple into the spotlight because once again, they are the biggest name out of all the ones Foxconn make products for.
But regardless Darrell Jones was spot on, Foxconn is the one paying the money out, not Apple so why are Apple receiving the credit for something they didn’t do? Yes Apple have said they are going to look into workers conditions which is good for them to finally do but that doesn’t mean they deserve credit for the payrise unless that money is coming from Apple’s pockets.
Please provide evidence of me “blaming Apple”. I have said that Apple have greater power and more financial leeway to change things at Foxconn, but I’m not blind to the responsibilities of other manufacturers and have said so.
Ok maybe you have or haven’t, but the comment was a general comment not specifically aimed at you , people blame apple for what has gone on at Foxconn, I agree apple have more power than others but when they use it people are quick to dismiss what apple is trying to do. Apple sent in independent inspectors to Foxconn, the looked into 156 companies in the supplier change, Apple also requested independent fair labour inspections at foxconn, if that’s not enough evidence for people that apple has influenced the wage rise then not sure what is.
I research before posting comments not afterwards! Gizmodo gave apple credit but did not state why, but just look into what apple is doing yourself! I haven’t seen any evidence of others doing anything, and I have been looking, hence the comments at the top.
I’m not an Apple fan (in fact I detest the company). However, it’s easy to assume that Foxconn workers are under paid compared to western salaries but for all we know, their salaries could be in line with average salary of that type of job? I think some in sight into how good/poor their salary is compared to other jobs and what the average works costs are would help.
McNuggets mmmm
Reversing the maths of that ‘mgnugget scale’, it works out as the equivalent to more than £5000 per annum in the UK.