News Wintek workers strike over deaths, pay

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/bits/2010/01/20/wintek-workers-strike-over-deaths-pay/1

 

Now, where is greeenpeace when you need them most? Once again the love of money makes corporations ride roughshod over anything standing in the way of profit. Starting with their own humanity.

1st post! No link to forums in article.

 

The use of cheap labour in countries with "relaxed" rules on safety to churn out parts for our 2-year lifespan consumer style must-haves while killing and maiming the very people who manufacture them for us... we really have become the decadent evil empire, except it's our businesses that have lead us there, not our governments.

Karl Marx, Mahatma Ghandi and Bill Hicks must be whirling dervishly in their graves.

 

Just so you know, n-hexane isn't banned in most countries, its a commonly used laboratory solvent and is also found in petrol!

While it is mildly poisonous, its only a problem if used in large amounts in under-ventilated areas... no doubt the Chinese health and safety guys didn't get round to checking the extraction fans were turned on!

 

So yeah, this whole globalisation thing is pretty great.

 

Strange that on that news article the other week, Greenpeace were having a go at Nintendo for not disclosing any hazardous/unfriendly components. Yet here is a company that is known to use them and we didn't hear a peep. I guess GP are more interested in being nosey than actually doing anything useful.

 

Failtek

 

I would hardly consider Wintek as high-profile as Nintendo. Even GP can't publish a list of every company in the world.

 

It wasnt our businesses that lead us here, its us consumers. You choose what to buy a company provides a service or a product with a price.The journalist job is to dig deep so the information that X corp is using a hazardous chemical is available to consumers. We then make a choice on whether we are ok with that product and its cost. it is the workers job to accept the associated risk of there job or find another, you can make a argument here that its the governments but I disagree.

Capitalism didn't cause this, consumers not caring about the "cost" has brought us here.