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Indian iPhone factory apologizes to workers for mishandling wages

29 points by ystad 6y ago

unclekev 6y ago
Of course they don't. They "deeply regret" getting caught.
nbzso 6y ago
But M1 one man, it’s so fast it changes everything.Right?
square_usual 6y 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 6y ago
  One could argue anyone that owns an iPhone.
- ibic 6y ago
  Maybe trying to to save the business relationship with Apple?
  - square_usual 6y ago
    Is anyone at Apple naive enough to believe Wistron honestly regrets this?
- tanilama 6y ago
  Kneel jerking PR response
- stickfigure 6y ago
  It's an article quoting a fragment of a quote from another article. I wouldn't get riled up without getting more context.
- deleted 6y ago
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- uranusjr 6y 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).
cwwc 6y ago
Wistron, 去死
flemhans 6y 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 6y ago
  It is not “delayed payments” it is called wage theft.
  - posguy 6y 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-tough-on-wage-theft.html 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.
    - tdeck 6y ago
      It's not crazy at all if you consider whom our political and economic system has been set up to benefit.
- dangus 6y 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 6y 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 6y ago
We changed the URL from https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/after-riots-iphone-manufacturer-says-it-deeply-regrets-exploiting-workers/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/after-riots-iphone-m..., which points to this.
neonate 6y ago
https://archive.is/Y7aH6 https://archive.is/Y7aH6
Talanes 6y 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 6y 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 6y ago
good job india, chaos is the only way to fight against capitalism that uses your people as slave
cute_boi 6y 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 6y ago
“Protecting the interests of foreign investors is very important for us.”
cosmiccatnap 6y ago
They never thought the lepard would eat their face.

29 points by ystad 6y ago

unclekev 6y ago

Of course they don't. They "deeply regret" getting caught.

nbzso 6y ago

But M1 one man, it’s so fast it changes everything.Right?

square_usual 6y 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 6y ago
One could argue anyone that owns an iPhone.
ibic 6y ago
Maybe trying to to save the business relationship with Apple?
- square_usual 6y ago
  Is anyone at Apple naive enough to believe Wistron honestly regrets this?
tanilama 6y ago
Kneel jerking PR response
stickfigure 6y ago
It's an article quoting a fragment of a quote from another article. I wouldn't get riled up without getting more context.
deleted 6y ago
[deleted]
uranusjr 6y 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).

cwwc 6y ago

Wistron, 去死

flemhans 6y 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 6y ago
It is not “delayed payments” it is called wage theft.
- posguy 6y 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-tough-on-wage-theft.html 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.
  - tdeck 6y ago
    It's not crazy at all if you consider whom our political and economic system has been set up to benefit.
dangus 6y 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 6y 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 6y ago

We changed the URL from https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/after-riots-iphone-manufacturer-says-it-deeply-regrets-exploiting-workers/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/after-riots-iphone-m..., which points to this.

neonate 6y ago

https://archive.is/Y7aH6 https://archive.is/Y7aH6

Talanes 6y 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 6y 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 6y ago

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

cute_boi 6y 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 6y ago

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

cosmiccatnap 6y ago

They never thought the lepard would eat their face.