Indian iPhone factory apologizes to workers for mishandling wages

https://www.wsj.com/articles/indian-iphone-factory-apologizes-to-workers-for-mishandling-wages-11608388075

by ystad • 6 years ago

29 22 6 years ago

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unclekev• 6 years ago

Of course they don't.

They "deeply regret" getting caught.

square_usual2• 6 years ago

I don't get it. What's the point of them saying that? Everybody knows they don't regret exploiting workers - if anything, they regret getting caught. Why have all this theater of pretending to care? Why use language like "deeply regret"? Who is this convincing?

Throwaway1771• 6 years ago

One could argue anyone that owns an iPhone.

ibic• 6 years ago

Maybe trying to to save the business relationship with Apple?

square_usual2• 6 years ago

Is anyone at Apple naive enough to believe Wistron honestly regrets this?

tanilama• 6 years ago

Kneel jerking PR response

stickfigure• 6 years ago

It's an article quoting a fragment of a quote from another article. I wouldn't get riled up without getting more context.

uranusjr• 6 years ago

Speaking as a Taiwanese, this “we are deeply sorry” stuff is standard PR template used by most corps here. They don’t mean it and we know they don’t, but they always include it anyway and everyone reading automatically skips the opening part of these PR messages. Only people read into that are foreigners (who don’t understand how this formality works) and propaganda pieces (who want to sound sincere for obvious reasons).

flemhans• 6 years ago

How about the other side of the situation? Werent payments just delayed? And these workers smash in the building? I suppose they can't ever have the same people from the video work there again. How are they going to establish a functioning workforce there once again?

binarycrusader• 6 years ago

It is not “delayed payments” it is called wage theft.

posguy• 6 years ago

Wage theft is finally starting to be legislated as a felony in the US: https://blogs.findlaw.com/free_enterprise/2019/08/states-get...

Its crazy that it has taken this long to hold thiefs accountable. Even then, most state departments of labor are extremely weak on enforcing wage theft laws.

dangus• 6 years ago

This is some expert level victim blaming.

A thought experiment: how good do you think working conditions were if the employees were willing to smash up the building so quickly?

How are they going to establish a functioning workforce there once again?

Quite easily if you pay the prevailing wage on time.

trianglem• 6 years ago

The same people can come back to work just fine as long as you pay them. Just know that they will probably do it again if you withhold wages.

dang• 6 years ago

We changed the URL from https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/after-riots-iphone-m..., which points to this.

neonate• 6 years ago

https://archive.is/Y7aH6

Talanes• 6 years ago

"We deeply regret exploiting our workers to the point of riot. We never intended to exploit anyone any further than just short of a riot."

W-Stool• 6 years ago

Let me fix this for these guys:

"We truly regret getting caught for this egregious behavior and we have committed our entire organization, from the top all the way down, to ensure we don't get caught doing this again."

Seriously - WTF? Who runs a business like this?

WhoCaresLies• 6 years ago

good job india, chaos is the only way to fight against capitalism that uses your people as slave

cute_boi• 6 years ago

Apple and that company doesn't care. They are just apologizing because they have been caught not giving salary for many months + other evil things.

First they played trick like saying Indian people are bad. Its a dark data in India. And China fueled it (Retweeted such news showing India is Bad).

They should know India is not China where people don't speak if they are abused.

pabs3• 6 years ago

“Protecting the interests of foreign investors is very important for us.”

cosmiccatnap• 6 years ago

They never thought the lepard would eat their face.

Indian iPhone factory apologizes to workers for mishandling wages

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