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Old 01-22-2012, 10:38 PM   #29
Undertoad
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Originally Posted by the part tw didn't excerpt
The facility has 230,000 employees, many working six days a week, often spending up to 12 hours a day at the plant. Over a quarter of Foxconn’s work force lives in company barracks and many workers earn less than $17 a day.
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“They could hire 3,000 people overnight,” said Jennifer Rigoni, who was Apple’s worldwide supply demand manager until 2010, but declined to discuss specifics of her work. “What U.S. plant can find 3,000 people overnight and convince them to live in dorms?”
Buck fifty an hour, live at the company dorm, 72-hour work week. Yes, these do not sound like "American" jobs... post labor movement that is.
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