New labour law in Karnataka promotes China-like work culture
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The landmark labour law amendment in Karnataka will allow for 12-hour shifts and night-time work for women.

The state [Karnataka] passed an amendment to its application of the factories act, which now allows for 12-hour shifts [up from 9], and the easing of rules for night-time work for women. The legislation increases the number of allowable overtime hours to 145 over a three-month period, up from 75, and caps maximum working hours at 48 per week [this is toothless].

Apple and its manufacturing partner Foxconn were involved in lobbying for a significant liberalisation of labour laws...There are “a lot of inputs" from industry lobby groups and foreign companies, including Foxconn and Apple, in the decision to amend Karnataka’s labour law.

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    The whole "sweatshop factory that makes the world's technology" is pretty much geographically limited to South Asia (obviously the multinationals responsible for this are all over the world), due to the unique situation of having incredible industry that even other heavily industrialised countries do not have (especially in China and Taiwan), with a much lower cost of living than other industrialised countries, and a large rural population to exploit, weather they be local or migrant workers.

    Even if chip manufacturing comes back to the US or something I don't see how 85+ hour work weeks for millions of factory workers on less than minimum wage (in India the floor minimum wage is 2.16 US dollars a day, average minimum wage is 3.16 a day, even if you take purchasing power difference between the US and India into account it's still extremely low) will be accepted, unless conditions massively deteriorate in the next decade. Even Amazon maxes out at five 12 hour shifts a week from what I've read on the news.

    • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Don't worry, bro. We Americans will willingly accept higher prices as long as it's made in America!

      starts ranting about why fast food workers deserve pennies because otherwise big macs will increase by 35 cents

        • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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          2 years ago

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          • neo [he/him]
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            2 years ago

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            In court, Finman reflected on how Freedom Phone’s collapse hurt its customers, who had each spent $500 on the idea that the supposed tech wunderkind could give them a phone for conservatives free from the Silicon Valley giants. Instead, Finman said, the Freedom Phone debacle “soils” his reputation.

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      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        I mean even if they somehow manage to get the prices to a level most people would accept by screwing US workers over during the future invasion of Taiwan or whatever happens, America simply does not have the industrial capacity. Look at how Tesla is going, a niche car brand where the steering wheels come off and batteries explode, not even mentioning build quality/QC issues. Imagine trying to build computer chips.