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“Slavery-like conditions”, as defined by Brazilian law, include debt bondage and work that violates human dignity.
Remember this, everybody.
Violation of work dignity is part of mainland Chinese work culture. I guess the big heads in China still don’t understand the complaint
That’s just racism against chinese culture then!! /s
‘slavery’ in quotes really seems to soften the blow. Like the time I ‘punched’ my boss.
Punching them softly
🎵with his song…
All of those chip factories Congress is funding building in the US? Congress is also trying to pass legislation to import underpaid Taiwanese labor for them. I expect the conditions won’t be better.
prolly worthy of a whole 'nather post rather than derailing this one that isn’t about the US nor Taiwan.
You know the irony of this picture is that in the early 90’s myself and eight others tricked out a cargo container with scaffold build bunks on a job. We were not alone in doing this. We paid the plant we were working at a very small amount of money for electricity and used the showers in their plant locker room. We were of course being paid and were free to run to town anytime. We had large cookouts on any days off we had. Which were very few. Good times. I remember a week in Vegas after we finally got laid off.
Those poor souls though if they were forced to live like that need to be compensated.
I think the destinction between the chinese firm constructing the site and BYD itself is quite important here. I am absolutely not a fan of chinese car manufacturers but its just not the same as if BYD was operating the site right now and this news came to light
Outsourcing your slavery dosen’t make it any better.
If you outsource your work, you outsource your reputation. BYD is absolutely responsible for the conditions of the workers.
I wonder what the tankie spin of this would be.
They will still say “capitalism bad”.
Capitalism isn’t perfect, but it’s the better system we have so far.
A socialist corporation is still a corporation.
Aka parasite
They aren’t state owned, they’re the largest private company in China (by number of employees), and have had plenty of issues with the authorities there.
A what?
A corporate entity sanctioned by the Communist part of China
Socialist like how Best Korea is a Democratic Republic.
Never mind that, when can I buy my $10,000 electric car with 2000 miles of range? That’s the important thing, here.
There’s a good reason why their cars are cheap, and only one part of it is Chinese state subsidies.
The conditions were created by a Brazilian building contractor. It was not the factory environment, but the construction project environment.
Companies are responsible for hiring their subcontractors. They don’t get to pass on guilt through indirection.
