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[VNTS]

Good article showing the hypocracy of Fuji Heavy Industry and their abuse of illegal alien/Asylum seekers at component makers plants. from Reuters


http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/japan-subaru/

 

[cptbarkey]

golly, thats capitalism for you.

 

[RedOakRanch]

California has for decades and still does that today. $3.36 after expenses would be Nirvana compared to $0 and starving in 3rd world countries.

 

[OneEyeJack]

Shame on them. It's a good thing that here in America our borders are a solid wall of law enforcement. We never allow illegals a chance to work at low paying jobs to enhance corporate profits. Our politicians are a citadel of integrity, honesty and transparency especially when it comes to emails. Such a national disgrace could never happen here, could it?

 

[Hokiefyd]

Gee, it's almost like Subaru/Fuji Heavy Industries is run by a bunch of...humans...

 

[nthach]

Originally Posted By: cptbarkey
golly, thats capitalism for you.

What's worth noting is that Subaru is an odd child in Japan's microcosm of keiretsus - we call them conglomerates. The infographic shows that Subaru is dependent on smaller suppliers despite the fact Toyota owns 16% of FHI. Nissan, despite being a part of the Hitachi conglomerate at one time also depended on small suppliers until Carlos Ghosn took over. You'd expect Subaru to buy more parts from the Toyota menagerie - Denso/Aisin/Advics/Futaba/Tokai Rika/Toyoda Boshoku/Aichi Steel but no...

Look at Toyota and Honda - there's tighter integration of their supply chain and they can meet demand before resorting to temp workers. Toyota does more in house though. But the Japanese have always worked on a "we own you" system - workers for certain companies were expected to live in company dorms, shop at company stores and seek care at company hospitals.

Also this - http://nashvillepublicradio.org/post/nis...long-term-temps

 

[BearZDefect]

Originally Posted By: Reuters
... At Subaru, some foreign workers earn about half the wage of their Japanese equivalents on the production line. At the automaker’s suppliers, workers are often employed through brokers who charge up to a third of the workers' wages. ...

That sounds very much like the automaker plants here in the USA - hiring temp workers through a temp agency who skims a third of the pay. The take-home pay of these workers is much much less than those employed directly by the automaker.

Originally Posted By: Reuters
... The company also said it had no power to monitor the behavior of labor brokers. ...

Lame excuse. When you are a large important customer/employer you can always put pressure on your contractors to comply with the standards they agreed to in writing.

 

[Robenstein]

Originally Posted By: cptbarkey
golly, thats capitalism for you.


And just about every other system. Go look at the examples set by various "workers paradises" behind the iron curtain or in red China.

 

[MikeHigg]

When worker work fulltime but do not make a minimum living wage, that is mans inhumanity to man, it is wrong, just wrong, and we within our limits should do what we can to change it.

 

[CKN]

Originally Posted By: OneEyeJack
Shame on them. It's a good thing that here in America our borders are a solid wall of law enforcement. We never allow illegals a chance to work at low paying jobs to enhance corporate profits. Our politicians are a citadel of integrity, honesty and transparency especially when it comes to emails. Such a national disgrace could never happen here, could it?



Coming from an ex-Southern Californian this is a great post!