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When all the workers have gone home, the Taiwanese managers will still be in their offices, working. They, voluntarily, put in more than the 60 hours.
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How very commendably corporate of them. And pardon me if I don't quite buy the "voluntary" nature of their extra hours...corporate culture being what it is...
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China has already gone half way. In another 10-20 years they will have caught up. Do you really think you can just snap your fingers and the laborers in the whole world will work for US wages?
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I wouldn't exactly hold up US wages as the gold standard--especially not the wages in the "right to work" union-busting states... try Sweden, France, Canada... but no, they have a long way to go... a decent wage earned in a reasonable work week would do for a start... tiananmen's take on Foxconn wages and how far that stretches seems to be at odds with your take.... who to believe? Tiennenmen and the uninformed "journalist' with their evil anti-corporate agenda or you...hmmm...
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...But go to China, learn Chinese and talk the people. Almost all the people are very optimistic, they like where they are at, even compared to western countries.
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That's not what I hear from those who left and came to Canada including my daughter-in-law and her family...your portrayal of their mood is very different from what I hear from those who left... perhaps it's just the malcontents who came here?
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They have confidence where they are going. They don't need, they don't WANT your pity.
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Pity? Anger and contempt for abusive governments and labour practices... not even close to pity. I've been representing workers for nearly 3 decades and pity has never been part of it. Assisting them in correcting the inherent power imbalance that exists in all workplaces--even here in the better western work environments--is never about pity. If you actually have respect for the workers you don't pity them, you just lend them your expertise and assist them as best you can.
I certainly don't speak for all Canadians nor do I hold myself as the definitive interpreter of Candian culture and conditions. I live here but so do millions of others with totally different perspectives. The same applies to you.
In this particular thread we have two of you who are close to the source... I think you know whose opinion I prefer
