For all those neo-conservatives who believe that the business world should be unfettered by government interaction, consider the case of Foxconn, a China plant that makes iPhones. The plant has seen nine suicides this year. Eleven workers jumped from buildings, but two survived.
There have been complaints about long work hours and harsh working conditions at the plant. You wonder if Apple deliberately moved production to China, where they can get away with paying workers slave wages and working them to death -- in this case literally. Conservatives claim that American workers demand too many benefits and rights, but I think most American workers want to be paid a living wage and treated live human beings, not automatons.
So this is the end product of outsourcing? Dead workers, cheap goods and huge corporate profits? It seems that the developing world, with the help of activists from the West, will have to get on board the union bandwagon or stand by and watch more workers die.
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