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Apple workers forced to sign 'no suicide' pledge


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Gautam Sinha
Apple must be paid for this.
by Gautam Sinha on May 11, 2011 10:48 AM

So all the communism in China is for teh benefit of capitalist West!! wow - India and other countries should now add an additional anti dumping duty on Apple products and make that profiteering company go bankrupt. Apple would pretty much be aware in this even though they may parrot it is the reponsibility of Foxconn.

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irfan
Slavery of the Capitalism
by irfan on May 08, 2011 02:06 PM

Slavery of the Capitalism, who says slavery doesn't exist, this is new form of slavery. back in the day it was British, used all possible means. now Americans tycos.

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sam
Indian IT workers
by sam on May 08, 2011 11:38 AM  | Hide replies

Its quite funny to see some posters here comparing the Chinese factory workers to Indian IT guys..there is truly no comparison. The chinese are extremely hard workers and unfortunately are being exploited here under a totalitarian regime. In contrast our Indian IT guys are mostly lazy bums who just keep demanding salary hikes year after year. Most of them anyways are on bench either lounging in cafeterias or playing silly video games. May be its time to outsource them to China and then we will see how these guys deal with HR deparments

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mohammed ulhaq
Re: Indian IT workers
by mohammed ulhaq on May 08, 2011 02:16 PM
If you are an Indian you will understand the difference between Hard work and Smart work. If we werent Smart workers then we would have ended up with similar faith of Chinese. The only difference between Indians and Chinese is Brain usage and we take pride in being Brain power of the world.

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madanmohan siddhanthi
STUPID
by madanmohan siddhanthi on May 08, 2011 08:35 AM

Most of the places HR is only name sake and the HR people dance to the tunes of chief.They have given up thinking and always in for pleasing the boss who governs and dictates their future . The pity is they do not even put forward the right views . Now after signing a pact what if he commits a suicide - his family will not get compensation that'sit - who are going to suffer .World over it is only on paper that slaveery does not exists but in reality it does.Contries like India where the majority and a big majority is not economicallyu sound (After all the looting by politicians and bureaucrata) a common man has nothing but to obey.Unions - the leaders are there to loot and do nothing . So keep doing stupid things that is the right of people in power.

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Loan Shark
peepli [live]
by Loan Shark on May 04, 2011 10:39 PM

Some officials within the company even accused workers of committing suicide to secure large compensation payments for their families.

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kuchibhotla kalyanachakravarthy
is india any better?
by kuchibhotla kalyanachakravarthy on May 04, 2011 10:36 PM  | Hide replies

outsourcing is not done unless the profit margins can be maintained/inflated. Populated countries like china with established infrastructure and availability of cheap/desperate labour allow blue chip companies to maintain their profit margins.
India may not have apple as one of the comments mentioned. But the ready made industry is no different where in hell holes cheap labour sweat it out. One could also remember the kind of police brutality against workers in the Honda Manufacturing in unit in Gurgaon, if i remember correctly. Once the country sells its soul to the World Bank/ IMF and signs the dotted line, there is no going back.
Farmers committing suicide because the Bt Cotton crop failed dramatically is another case. So all these "educated" people who make a living out of MNCs should very well know that they too are cheap labour!

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madanmohan siddhanthi
Re: is india any better?
by madanmohan siddhanthi on May 08, 2011 08:37 AM
You just missed a point do you know how much the money gets transfered for out sourcing job to the people who out source - it is all black and may even be stashed in foreign banks No records and no documentation - it is like mafia.

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ARAJA OFTWOG
sign
by ARAJA OFTWOG on May 04, 2011 10:29 PM  | Hide replies

amul, mms, maino, diggi etc shd sign suicide pact if one more scam found.

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madanmohan siddhanthi
Re: sign
by madanmohan siddhanthi on May 08, 2011 08:39 AM
Hey ! they need not sign .All those who know insides out they will be committing suicide read it as murdered.

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fighter toads
all corp r same
by fighter toads on May 04, 2011 10:29 PM

there is something negative about every big companies

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talk cool
Anti-apple propaganada
by talk cool on May 04, 2011 10:20 PM  | Hide replies

someone who is anti-apple planted this story.
Just think whether this story have any value if they are not manufacturing Apple products?


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vijay sharma
Re: Anti-apple propaganada
by vijay sharma on May 04, 2011 11:04 PM
its 100% true ........

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