http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/]]>Jan 19th 2010 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
Chinese workers?? Rights?? HAHA too funny./]]>Jan 19th 2010 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
Its the big companies that squeeze the manufacturers to the limit. Like say if a computer company wanted them to make cheaper LCD's then they would ask them to keep the price down, which then makes the manufacturer have to compromise on working conditions.]]>Jan 19th 2010 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
WHAT? ONLY $1... easily $10...

any while you are at it throw in some quality for another $10 please Apple...

THese are people like the rest of us.. WTF? I really dont give a crap about the next poop iPoop gadget ot know that people are being hurt... a $20 Mp3 player will do just fine,,, As for Nokia phones... there are plenty others making better phones out there Nokla.]]>Jan 20th 2010 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
The 5 hours was their company allotted sleep time.]]>Jan 20th 2010 2:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
Not just because of the quality goes down with the pay to the workers, but also related to who the owners are.

Republic of China (a.k.a Taiwan) or Hong Kong owned companies treat people like Wintek does. Nokia, Apply etc, won't.]]>Jan 20th 2010 5:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Because apple and most western companies care about PR, if they subcontracted it to Taiwanese and Hong Kong company, they could blame the subcontracter while reaping the benifit of low cost.]]>Jan 20th 2010 7:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
Yea... easy to say in whatever Western country you live in. If these folks don't go back to work soon, Chinese authorities will probably just start killing people at random. I commend these people for their bravery in the face of such danger.]]>Jan 19th 2010 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 11:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Anyway, I live in Taiwan and here the bonus for chinese new year, I don't get it because I am a foreigner, usually equates to an additional 1/2 to a full months pay. For example, my wife's brother works for the miltary and he normally gets paid NT$40K (US$1200), a very good amount here for a single person or dual income home, at chinese new tear he brings home 80k and acts as 'the house' for gambling with his other 3 brothers. Funny thing every year he doubles that money by taking the brothers' New Year bonuses.I do not know the policy in China but I imagine it is similar. For these workers this is a lot of money!]]>Jan 20th 2010 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Anyway, I live in Taiwan and here the bonus for chinese new year, I don't get it because I am a foreigner, usually equates to an additional 1/2 to a full months pay. For example, my wife's brother works for the military and he normally gets paid NT$40K (US$1200), a very good amount here for a single person or dual income home, at chinese new tear he brings home 80k and acts as 'the house' for gambling with his other 3 brothers. Funny thing every year he doubles that money by taking the brothers' New Year bonuses.I do not know the policy in China but I imagine it is similar. For these workers this is a lot of money!]]>Jan 20th 2010 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
I'm confused. If they're so poor, why do they have nicer clothes than I do?]]>Jan 19th 2010 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
Cause Clothing is far cheaper In China than in U.S. also could is one of those copy brand clothes.]]>Jan 19th 2010 7:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
Maybe you have bad taste.]]>Jan 19th 2010 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
It's possible I have bad taste, but I know for sure that I have a bad bank balance.]]>Jan 19th 2010 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
I was in China a few years back, and I was surprised at how well people dressed. In fact, demand for name brand clothes were so high that they cost more in China than in North America, even though a lot of them were made there. It was a cliche for a secretary to spend many months of salary on a designer bag.

I always thought culturally the Chinese are the Italians of Asia. They are picky on clothes and food, like saving faces, and are loud in restaurants. Japanese are the Germans, punctual, precise, and kinky. Koreans are the Russians, melancholic, serious, and dramatic. Indians are the Greeks. Lively, passionate, and along with China, one of the remaining civilizations of the classical era.]]>Jan 20th 2010 1:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/LOL I absolutely agree! However, I prefer to interpret the kinkiness as a part of a generalized liberalism which I very much enjoy from them. Very nice analogies, btw.]]>Jan 20th 2010 2:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Not if you already know about it!]]>Jan 20th 2010 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/nice ass.
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Er, that was implied, yes. But thanks for spelling it out for everyone else!]]>Jan 19th 2010 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Steve doesn't do his dirty job. He would just make an app for that instead. ]]>Jan 19th 2010 9:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
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It looks like they see the power of collectively organizing against a company that is trying to screw them. ]]>Jan 19th 2010 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 8:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
This has been happening in China for about 10 years. The wages in China are already too high, that's why plants are moving to cheaper, less developed countries like Malaysia and Vietnam.

Its not the end of Cheap labor until they start building plants in Africa, and then THOSE guys revolt (obviously, if you look at a Map... Africa is not positioned to be the manufacturing powerhouse that China is).]]>Jan 19th 2010 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
lol, like that'll ever happen. ]]>Jan 19th 2010 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
hey, it is possible, until dictatorship settles in 2 days after the formation of the new government. ;)]]>Jan 19th 2010 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 8:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/]]>Jan 19th 2010 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 7:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
Nope.. My bad. That's the wrong calendar.. it is on the 14th.]]>Jan 19th 2010 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/Jan 19th 2010 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/2-000-wintek-workers-go-on-strike-over-bonus-payments-may-affec/
yeah, but try getting anything done from the 10-30th...
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