Apple Workers Riot - 120,000 Employees

[PistolBob]

One of the Apple plants in China employs about 120,000 people making much sought after and highly profitable items for Apple Computer of Cupertino California. The workers are getting tired of being treated like slaves...and they revolted. Dozens were arrested...and untold numbers of them were killed or wounded.

I guess they don't want to work for $100 a week anymore.

I predict Apple prices will be going up up up.

 

[CSORuger]

Maybe someone spiked the apple cidar

 

[miguel]

Anyone who can afford an iPad is a 1%-er to these poor people!

 

[griffin]

Apple profit margin is obscenely high. They could double their wages, not raise their prices, and still be very profitable.

 

[Tony7141]

One of the Apple plants in China employs about 120,000 people making much sought after and highly profitable items for Apple Computer of Cupertino California. The workers are getting tired of being treated like slaves...and they revolted. Dozens were arrested...and untold numbers of them were killed or wounded.

I guess they don't want to work for $100 a week anymore.

I predict Apple prices will be going up up up.

Exactly where in the article does it say "untold numbers of them were killed or wounded"? I sure didn't read that, are you an Apple hater? Maybe own stock in Microsoft? Whats the deal here?

 

[jayhawk]

Exactly where in the article does it say "untold numbers of them were killed or wounded"? I sure didn't read that, are you an Apple hater? Maybe own stock in Microsoft? Whats the deal here?

Um, it was "untold".

 

[figley]

They should move the factory somewhere labor-friendly, like Wisconsin.

 

[printcraft]

Stop spending the money putting nets up around the building and give those folks a raise!

+/- will even out eventually.

 

[Hookeye]

Arrest them all, hire cheaper children, drop my Apple toy prices by 10%

 

[Bond 281]

Arrest them all, hire cheaper children, drop my Apple toy prices by 10%

I would be ok with this. Child labor laws are ruining this country.

 

[PistolBob]

Exactly where in the article does it say "untold numbers of them were killed or wounded"? I sure didn't read that, are you an Apple hater? Maybe own stock in Microsoft? Whats the deal here?

Are you a Microsoft hater? Do you own Apple stock? Does your momma dress you like Buster Brown and make you sweep the kitchen?

 

[jgreiner]

One of the Apple plants in China employs about 120,000 people making much sought after and highly profitable items for Apple Computer of Cupertino California. The workers are getting tired of being treated like slaves...and they revolted. Dozens were arrested...and untold numbers of them were killed or wounded.

I guess they don't want to work for $100 a week anymore.

I predict Apple prices will be going up up up.

Um...Apple has no plants in China...those are FOXCONN plants.

 

[jgreiner]

Apple profit margin is obscenely high. They could double their wages, not raise their prices, and still be very profitable.

They have doubled their wages. Foxconn employees are some of the highest paid in China.

 

[Expat]

This just in, a new iTank to be released in the coming days. That should put a stop to this embarrassing display.

 

[mrjarrell]

Well, the plant isn't an Apple plant. It's a Foxconn plant, a Taiwanese/Chinese company. They make electronics for a number of companies, Apple included. To say that these people were Apple workers is a stretch. They could just as easily be Nokia or Microsoft workers. Way to go PB. Did you post the same thing over at the Indy Star forums? Or did you get banned?

 

[PistolBob]

Um...Apple has no plants in China...those are FOXCONN plants.

Oh yeah, um right, sorry. Tell it to the media.

 

[PistolBob]

They have doubled their wages. Foxconn employees are some of the highest paid in China.

Some employees make upwards of $100 a week and get TWO buckets of Moo Goo a day instead of one. Maybe one day they'll get bathroom breaks, and get to go home more than once a month. It's a true worker paradise there.

 

[PistolBob]

Well, the plant isn't an Apple plant. It's a Foxconn plant, a Taiwanese/Chinese company. They make electronics for a number of companies, Apple included. To say that these people were Apple workers is a stretch. They could just as easily be Nokia or Microsoft workers. Way to go PB. Did you post the same thing over at the Indy Star forums? Or did you get banned?

Wahhh. Here's a crying towel.

I haven't been on the Indystar forums in probably two years or so. I don't read their paper, and I don't frequent the website. When they finally fold up and leave town I will go to 333 N Penn and do a little dance in the street.

Newspapers are dead Fred...haven't you heard?

 

[Fenway]

Didn't see anything about killed or wounded

Exactly where in the article does it say "untold numbers of them were killed or wounded"? I sure didn't read that, are you an Apple hater? Maybe own stock in Microsoft? Whats the deal here?

 

[Bondhead88]

Apple profit margin is obscenely high. They could double their wages, not raise their prices, and still be very profitable.

Apple doesn't set the wages the Chinese central government does.