03-03-2020, 12:05 PM
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Norm!
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Slave Labor is alive and well
https://globalnews.ca/news/6621998/u...=%40globalnews
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Uighur labour in China has been implicated in the supply chain of dozens of well-known companies, including Apple, Amazon and Bombardier, according to a new report by an Australian think tank.
The report by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute says that between 2017 and 2019, under a government policy called “Xinjiang Aid,” thousands of Uighurs were transferred out of the western region of Xinjiang to work in factories across China — “under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour.”
Based on official Chinese documents, satellite imagery, and media reports, the report estimates 80,000 Uighurs were transferred to factories around China: “… some of them were sent directly from detention camps.”
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At least 27 factories across nine provinces were identified in the report as using Uighur workers from Xinjiang since 2017.
“Those factories claim to be part of the supply chain of 83 well-known global brands,” the report says.
One of the companies named in the report is Canada-based transport sector multinational Bombardier.
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Other companies named in the report include Amazon and Apple. Global News reached out to both companies for comment and did not hear back as of Monday evening.
In a statement to Reuters, Apple said it is “dedicated to ensuring that everyone in our supply chain is treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.”
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03-03-2020, 12:20 PM
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#2
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Chicago
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Human rights violations in China?
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03-03-2020, 12:34 PM
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#3
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Well yeah, why else did you think large corporations like free trade and the ability to outsource work to poor countries with weak or no labour laws? They weren’t really doing it to save consumers.
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03-03-2020, 12:49 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: BELTLINE
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Yet somehow our oil companies are ESG villains when some S&P darlings pull crap like this. The hypocrisy of this world man.
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03-03-2020, 12:49 PM
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i am sure that blackrock and mark carney will announce they are no longer recommending investors invest in these companies right?
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03-03-2020, 12:54 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Calgary
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Then you have indentured labour in places like India where they are effectively slaves too.
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03-03-2020, 02:01 PM
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Ate 100 Treadmills
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China has such an awful model right now. 100s of millions of peasants forced to work to death under the communist side of the government. A bunch of government insiders making millions (or in some cases billions) under the new capitalist "reforms".
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03-03-2020, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by blankall
A bunch of government insiders making millions (or in some cases billions) under the new capitalist "reforms".
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And many of them have used those millions to secure comfortable nests in the West for themselves and their families for when the masses overturn the apple-cart. But hey, it's welcome capital flowing into our cities, so best not to think about where it comes from.
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