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Apple manufacturing plant workers complain of long hours and militant culture

 

  Chengdu, China (CNN) — Miss Chen (we changed her name for this story), an 18-year-old student from a village outside of the southern megacity of Chongqing, is one of more than one million factory workers at a Chinese company that helps manufacture products for Apple Inc.’s lucrative global empire, which ranked in a record $46.3 billion in sales last quarter. They work day or night shifts, eating and sleeping at company facilities, as they help build electronics products for Apple and many other global brand names, such as Amazon’s Kindle and Microsoft’s Xbox.

  As a poor college student with no work experience, looking for a job in China’s competitive market is an uphill battle. So when Chen was offered a one-month position at Foxconn with promises of great benefits and little overtime, she jumped at the chance. But when she started working, she found out that only senior employees got such benefits.

  “During my first day of work, an older worker said to me, ‘Why did you come to Foxconn? Think about it again and leave right now’,” said Chen, who plans to return to her studies at a Chongqing university soon.

  Foxconn recently released a statement defending its corporate practices, stating its employees are entitled to numerous benefits including access to health care and opportunities for promotions and training. In response to questions from CNN, Apple also released a statement: “We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain. We insist that our suppliers provide safe working conditions, treat workers with dignity and respect, and use environmentally responsible manufacturing processes wherever Apple products are made. Our suppliers must live up to these requirements if they want to keep doing business with Apple.”

  After three weeks of applying more than 4,000 stickers a day onto iPad screens by hand and working 60 hours a week in an assembly line, Chen says she’s ready to go back to school and study hard so she’ll never have to return to Foxconn. “It’s so boring, I can’t bear it anymore. Everyday is like: I get off from work and I go to bed. I get up in the morning, and I go to work. It is my daily routine and I almost feel like an animal,” said Miss Chen. When asked why humans do machine-like work at Foxconn, she responds, “Well, humans are cheaper.”

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Apple manufacturing plant workers complain of long hours and militant culture

 

  Chengdu, China (CNN) — Miss Chen (we changed her name for this story), an 18-year-old student from a village outside of the southern megacity of Chongqing, is one of more than one million factory workers at a Chinese company that helps manufacture products for Apple Inc.’s lucrative global empire, which ranked in a record $46.3 billion in sales last quarter. They work day or night shifts, eating and sleeping at company facilities, as they help build electronics products for Apple and many other global brand names, such as Amazon’s Kindle and Microsoft’s Xbox.

  As a poor college student with no work experience, looking for a job in China’s competitive market is an uphill battle. So when Chen was offered a one-month position at Foxconn with promises of great benefits and little overtime, she jumped at the chance. But when she started working, she found out that only senior employees got such benefits.

  “During my first day of work, an older worker said to me, ‘Why did you come to Foxconn? Think about it again and leave right now’,” said Chen, who plans to return to her studies at a Chongqing university soon.

  Foxconn recently released a statement defending its corporate practices, stating its employees are entitled to numerous benefits including access to health care and opportunities for promotions and training. In response to questions from CNN, Apple also released a statement: “We care about every worker in our worldwide supply chain. We insist that our suppliers provide safe working conditions, treat workers with dignity and respect, and use environmentally responsible manufacturing processes wherever Apple products are made. Our suppliers must live up to these requirements if they want to keep doing business with Apple.”

  After three weeks of applying more than 4,000 stickers a day onto iPad screens by hand and working 60 hours a week in an assembly line, Chen says she’s ready to go back to school and study hard so she’ll never have to return to Foxconn. “It’s so boring, I can’t bear it anymore. Everyday is like: I get off from work and I go to bed. I get up in the morning, and I go to work. It is my daily routine and I almost feel like an animal,” said Miss Chen. When asked why humans do machine-like work at Foxconn, she responds, “Well, humans are cheaper.”

Adaptado de http://edition.cnn.com, consulta em 06/02/2012

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London University Considers Alcohol Ban to Avoid Offending Muslims

 

  In a surprising and potentially controversial move that is being seen as a sign of changing attitudes in UK further education, a London university is considering ending the sale of alcohol on campus because of concerns from Muslim students.

  The London Metropolitan University is poised to take the action because a ‘high percentage’ of    10    Islamic students regard drinking as ‘immoral’, according to its vice chancellor Professor Malcolm Gillies.

  Gillies   11    the idea after talking to a large number of new students to the University. ‘I was raising the issue of changing values in student populations and the question of how a responsible university responds. London Metropolitan University is a highly diverse university ethnically and in religious terms. Our students come from all over the world and they come with changing balance of values. So the issue of how we cater for those values while still remaining true to being a British university is one of the constant issues any responsible university would be considering,’ he explained.

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London University Considers Alcohol Ban to Avoid Offending Muslims

 

  In a surprising and potentially controversial move that is being seen as a sign of changing attitudes in UK further education, a London university is considering ending the sale of alcohol on campus because of concerns from Muslim students.

  The London Metropolitan University is poised to take the action because a ‘high percentage’ of    10    Islamic students regard drinking as ‘immoral’, according to its vice chancellor Professor Malcolm Gillies.

  Gillies   11    the idea after talking to a large number of new students to the University. ‘I was raising the issue of changing values in student populations and the question of how a responsible university responds. London Metropolitan University is a highly diverse university ethnically and in religious terms. Our students come from all over the world and they come with changing balance of values. So the issue of how we cater for those values while still remaining true to being a British university is one of the constant issues any responsible university would be considering,’ he explained.

(www.school-to-university.com/Adaptado.)

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Blonde Gang Plague Brazil Shoppers

 

  Isabelle Monte

  27 Mar 2012

  They were blonde, beautiful and had a seriously bad attitude.

  Police in Brazil are investigating “Gang of Blondes” – who are said to be responsible for a series of kidnappings of wealthy women shoppers in the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

  The women, who all had dyed blonde hair, operated by hanging out in upmarket shopping malls and supermarkets looking for well dressed women shoppers. Once they had identified potential targets they would follow them to try and make a judgment on their wealth by observing    12    shopping habits and credit card use. Once they had tagged a woman victim they would then follow her to her car and grab her at gunpoint. Two of the blondes would hold the terrified victim while two others would use her credit cards to purchase goods and her bank cards to take cash from her bank account.

  Brazilian police have now arrested three of the gang and are looking into 54 kidnappings stretching back to 2008.

(www.shop-and-buy.com.Adaptado.)

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Blonde Gang Plague Brazil Shoppers

 

  Isabelle Monte

  27 Mar 2012

  They were blonde, beautiful and had a seriously bad attitude.

  Police in Brazil are investigating “Gang of Blondes” – who are said to be responsible for a series of kidnappings of wealthy women shoppers in the cities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

  The women, who all had dyed blonde hair, operated by hanging out in upmarket shopping malls and supermarkets looking for well dressed women shoppers. Once they had identified potential targets they would follow them to try and make a judgment on their wealth by observing    12    shopping habits and credit card use. Once they had tagged a woman victim they would then follow her to her car and grab her at gunpoint. Two of the blondes would hold the terrified victim while two others would use her credit cards to purchase goods and her bank cards to take cash from her bank account.

  Brazilian police have now arrested three of the gang and are looking into 54 kidnappings stretching back to 2008.

(www.shop-and-buy.com.Adaptado.)

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