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Originally Posted by tiananmen
it is not assuming,their posthumous letters were publicated.
4000 yuan? are you joking? even the Chinese propaganda xinhua news agency confessed the average salary is around rmb1900-2500. yours is higher .
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We are not talking average. We are talking skilled workers who work for a factory that makes expensive products to exacting standards. I make any bet that Foxconn pays a lot more than average, they want good workers. So 2-3000 for an assembly worker (the pay will vary depending on their output) is definitely not a high estimate. A regular sewing machine operator in a Taiwanese or Hong Kong invested shoe or garment factory will make between 1300 and 2500. With special skills they will make more. The 4000 are for line supervisors, team leaders, etc. One of these persons will supervise dozens of people, why should they be paid only according to average wages? And electronics companies pay more than textile or shoe factories.
You are not reading what I have written. Companies like Foxconn pay a lot more than the average wage, thereby lifting the standards for workers everywhere. They are by no means saints without fault, but they have helped to greatly increase wages and living standards everywhere in China -- simply because workers have a choice and other factories have to offer attractive packages to get workers, especially good ones.
And with regard to the countrywide average figure. I don't believe it is anywhere near the 1900 range. Don't forget that farmers subsist on a few 100 RMB a month. And farmers are still 80% of the population. I am not singing the government propaganda's song here. The government has nothing to do with this.
You should be crying out against the small companies, among those you find the real sweat shops (though I don't want to make blanket accusations here) because they are below the radar of labor protection industries and out of the lime light of international attention. Why attack those that are actually leading the way to improve the workers situation?