The Chinese Global Times hasn’t stopped gloating ever due to the fact an Apple iPhone manufacturing facility close to Bengaluru erupted in violence, following a dispute more than non-payment of normal wages and overtime dues. The English language mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party seized on the current unfortunate incident of rioting by the aggrieved workers at the Wistron Corporation facility to warn other multinationals against moving to India.
However, such propaganda barely conceals the truth that the Wistron management was in the incorrect to deny the workers their wages and other dues for extended without the need of a valid cause. Such worker exploitation could be the norm in China but no civilised nation tolerates it. That could be why the Wistron bosses have been rapid to dismiss the vice-president in charge of the Bengaluru factory.
Apple also has place Wistron on notice that it will not contract it for additional orders really should it fail to take corrective measures. India has not too long ago amended its stringent labour laws to facilitate a level playing field involving the employers and staff but only right after duly giving due safeguards for reputable workers’ rights. What the Wistron management did was nothing at all brief of criminal. Still, it did not condone the resort to violence and destruction of home by the workers.
More than a hundred workers have been arrested, whilst a Communist leader accused of instigating them was on the run. Apple, possessing identified India as the subsequent huge marketplace, has taken the lead in setting up plants for assembly of its phones and manufacturing of some of its elements in this nation. The unfortunate incident, hopefully, will serve as a lesson for all sides, like staff, contractors and contract-workers, to stick to fair and just guidelines. Exploitation of human labour may possibly be okay in Communist China, it will in no way be okay in a democratic India.