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01-23-2012, 02:54 AM
“If it’s the pinnacle of capitalism, <u>we should be worried.” </u>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.
But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, <span style='font-size: 14pt'>President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the United States?</span>
Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas.
Why can’t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked.
Mr. Jobs’s reply was unambiguous. <span style='font-size: 14pt'>“Those jobs aren’t coming back,”</span> he said, according to another dinner guest.
The president’s question touched upon a central conviction at Apple. It isn’t just that workers are cheaper abroad. Rather, Apple’s executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterparts that “Made in the U.S.A.” is no longer a viable option for most Apple products.
Apple has become one of the best-known, most admired and most imitated companies on earth, in part through an unrelenting mastery of global operations. Last year, it earned over $400,000 in profit per employee, more than Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobil or Google.
However, what has vexed Mr. Obama as well as economists and policy makers is that Apple — and many of its high-technology peers — are not nearly as avid in creating American jobs as other famous companies were in their heydays.
Apple employs 43,000 people in the United States and 20,000 overseas, a small fraction of the over 400,000 American workers at General Motors in the 1950s, or the hundreds of thousands at General Electric in the 1980s. </div></div>
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 14pt'>“If it’s the pinnacle of capitalism, we should be worried.”</span>
Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. <span style='font-size: 14pt'>New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s <u>dormitories</u>,</span> according to the executive. <span style='font-size: 14pt'>Each employee was given<u> a biscuit and a cup of tea, </u>guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.</span>
<span style="color: #3333FF">Back to the past. That's the GOP/Wall St mentality. Workers chained to their work benches on the production line. ie, a race to the bottom. Totally against the American idea of freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
Reality! They don't want to know.</span>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Foxconn staff threaten mass suicide
Posted on January 11, 2012 - 07:33 by Kate Taylor
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Three hundred staff at a plant building the Xbox 360 have been threatening mass suicide over pay and conditions, according to local reports.
Staff at a Foxconn plant - yes, them again - in Wuhan, China, say the company's failed to pay them wages they're owed. When they were moved to a new production line, they say, they were misled over their options.
First, they were given the choice of redundancy with a month's pay for every year of service. However when many chose to quit, Foxconn allegedly gave them nothing.
The factory's reported to make parts for the Xbox 360, as well as casings for Acer notebooks.
Foxconn's notorious for a spate of suicides at its Chinese plants, with the company driven to install anti-suicide nets to revent staff jumping off the roof. Staff are even required to sign a 'no-suicide' clause as part of their contract.
http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/49947-foxconn-suicides-...
The Wuhan workers threatened to do the same if their demands were not met. They spent the night on the factory roof, temporarily halting production. However, the situation was eventually resolved through the intervention of local government officials, and the workers were coaxed down from the roof.
Most have apparently agreed to stay, with around 45 choosing to quit.
There's photos of the incident, here. </div></div>
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“The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.” </div></div>
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president.
But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, <span style='font-size: 14pt'>President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the United States?</span>
Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas.
Why can’t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked.
Mr. Jobs’s reply was unambiguous. <span style='font-size: 14pt'>“Those jobs aren’t coming back,”</span> he said, according to another dinner guest.
The president’s question touched upon a central conviction at Apple. It isn’t just that workers are cheaper abroad. Rather, Apple’s executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterparts that “Made in the U.S.A.” is no longer a viable option for most Apple products.
Apple has become one of the best-known, most admired and most imitated companies on earth, in part through an unrelenting mastery of global operations. Last year, it earned over $400,000 in profit per employee, more than Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobil or Google.
However, what has vexed Mr. Obama as well as economists and policy makers is that Apple — and many of its high-technology peers — are not nearly as avid in creating American jobs as other famous companies were in their heydays.
Apple employs 43,000 people in the United States and 20,000 overseas, a small fraction of the over 400,000 American workers at General Motors in the 1950s, or the hundreds of thousands at General Electric in the 1980s. </div></div>
Answer.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><span style='font-size: 14pt'>“If it’s the pinnacle of capitalism, we should be worried.”</span>
Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option. One former executive described how the company relied upon a Chinese factory to revamp iPhone manufacturing just weeks before the device was due on shelves. Apple had redesigned the iPhone’s screen at the last minute, forcing an assembly line overhaul. <span style='font-size: 14pt'>New screens began arriving at the plant near midnight.
A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s <u>dormitories</u>,</span> according to the executive. <span style='font-size: 14pt'>Each employee was given<u> a biscuit and a cup of tea, </u>guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.</span>
<span style="color: #3333FF">Back to the past. That's the GOP/Wall St mentality. Workers chained to their work benches on the production line. ie, a race to the bottom. Totally against the American idea of freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
Reality! They don't want to know.</span>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Foxconn staff threaten mass suicide
Posted on January 11, 2012 - 07:33 by Kate Taylor
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Three hundred staff at a plant building the Xbox 360 have been threatening mass suicide over pay and conditions, according to local reports.
Staff at a Foxconn plant - yes, them again - in Wuhan, China, say the company's failed to pay them wages they're owed. When they were moved to a new production line, they say, they were misled over their options.
First, they were given the choice of redundancy with a month's pay for every year of service. However when many chose to quit, Foxconn allegedly gave them nothing.
The factory's reported to make parts for the Xbox 360, as well as casings for Acer notebooks.
Foxconn's notorious for a spate of suicides at its Chinese plants, with the company driven to install anti-suicide nets to revent staff jumping off the roof. Staff are even required to sign a 'no-suicide' clause as part of their contract.
http://www.tgdaily.com/business-and-law-features/49947-foxconn-suicides-...
The Wuhan workers threatened to do the same if their demands were not met. They spent the night on the factory roof, temporarily halting production. However, the situation was eventually resolved through the intervention of local government officials, and the workers were coaxed down from the roof.
Most have apparently agreed to stay, with around 45 choosing to quit.
There's photos of the incident, here. </div></div>
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“The speed and flexibility is breathtaking,” the executive said. “There’s no American plant that can match that.” </div></div>
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