Re:‘Re-education’, forced labour and surveillance beyond Xin...
by yorwba on Sunday March 01, 2020 @02:14PM
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Considering the conclusion that
> The response to the abuses identified in this report should not involve a knee-jerk rejection of Uyghur or Chinese labour. The problem is the policies that require Uyghurs to work under duress in violation of well-established international labour laws. It is vital that, as these problems are addressed, Uyghur labourers are not placed in positions of greater harm or, for example, involuntarily transferred back to Xinjiang, where their safety cannot necessarily be guaranteed.
I really don't like the parts of this article that don't clearly distinguish between companies employing Uyghurs, companies using forced labor and companies treating their employees like shit regardless of ethnicity.
E.g.
> a September 2019 report by New York-based China Labour Watch said contract workers at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou factory—which includes Uyghur workers—put in at least 100 overtime hours a month.
is not a forced labor problem if their Han workers also work that much. If that factory decides to implement a policy of not hiring ethnic minorities, as some do (I've seen job ads explicitly excluding Uyghurs, Mongols, Hui and Yi) that doesn't solve the underlying problem that the factory is grinding its workers to the bone.
> The response to the abuses identified in this report should not involve a knee-jerk rejection of Uyghur or Chinese labour. The problem is the policies that require Uyghurs to work under duress in violation of well-established international labour laws. It is vital that, as these problems are addressed, Uyghur labourers are not placed in positions of greater harm or, for example, involuntarily transferred back to Xinjiang, where their safety cannot necessarily be guaranteed.
I really don't like the parts of this article that don't clearly distinguish between companies employing Uyghurs, companies using forced labor and companies treating their employees like shit regardless of ethnicity.
E.g.
> a September 2019 report by New York-based China Labour Watch said contract workers at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou factory—which includes Uyghur workers—put in at least 100 overtime hours a month.
is not a forced labor problem if their Han workers also work that much. If that factory decides to implement a policy of not hiring ethnic minorities, as some do (I've seen job ads explicitly excluding Uyghurs, Mongols, Hui and Yi) that doesn't solve the underlying problem that the factory is grinding its workers to the bone.