United Press International recently reported that the European Parliament called on EU member states on Friday to stop imports from sweatshops in China to contain a number of factories brutalizing labor force behavior.
China the world's largest number of cheap labor, many international brands are made in China, but because by foreigners to grasp core technology and its products in most of the profit of foreigners, Chinese workers only get a little hard-earned money, and The workers of the working conditions of Health insurance benefits can not keep up, it is called" sweatshops."
European Parliament Thursday in Strasbourg, France (Strasbourg) held a meeting with" sweatshop" production of goods it sold in Europe to debate the issue. Some Members said that many citizens of EU member states have no knowledge of the situation in the purchase of a" sweatshop" production of goods.
EU enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele to the Associated Press said the EU hoped that this issue with China" positive dialogue." He said that if the working conditions of these factories, welfare workers continued to not improve, then the EU to consider stopping the import of goods produced by these plants.
UCO International Society reports that China - a few weeks after the EU summit in Brussels, the European Parliament may be in the position to exert pressure. However, Stefan Fuele also admitted that it is difficult to identify a product from China" sweatshops" , it is difficult to identify whether a plant is the so-called" sweatshops."
Further reading :" China model" and the sweatshops
Low human rights advantages: low human dividend-style economic growth
horizontal comparison of the sense of the so-called" low human rights advantage" , it is not to deny the longitudinal progress in human rights a positive effect on economic growth (to share the quality of economic growth or growth The positive effect of almost no controversy here is not to talk about it.) relative to China's reform era of progress on human rights before the reform on economic growth have a positive effect, of course, as we say" mobile worker" means that the labor rights of low economic growth in South Africa have a role, but the" mobile worker" than slavery and the levy made progress in the labor system could still be considered in terms of this perspective, it can be said that progress in human rights played a role in economic growth.
low human Cost: The report said that China will face a wage continued to rise situation in
" (labor prices) will help to change the existing variety of deep-seated structural difficulties." The report points out that changes in wage formation mechanism will fundamentally change labor relations, wage changes increases lagged behind the rise in national income situation, the initial distribution of national income, the Chinese revolutionary change. In addition, the low-wage labor market, rising production costs in different regions will have different impacts, so that a variety of traditional industries in the region, driven by cost differences, to accelerate the Midwest," gradually shift to" stay out of the eastern industrial upgrading of the space.
labor integrity Missing: all the" piece-rate system," companies are suspected of" sweatshops"
all" piece-rate system," companies are suspected of" sweatshops" , which will undoubtedly large number of PRD labeled" sweat" label, labor-intensive enterprises in particular.
labor integrity Missing! In the absence of good faith," time" becomes a" make hay" , the boss does not work with the results to differ materially, so that enterprises were forced to use" piece." In other words, in order" to sweat" and must establish a" labor credit" !
foreign media point of view: people, China's future development driving force
With the arrival of aging society, young people will only ever increase the overall burden; the same time, domestic demand necessary requirement for economic development improving people's purchasing power, and most people must come from increased purchasing power of income increase. China will have to slowly lose in the global industrial chain in the cheap labor factor.
If you do not the driving force to promote China's development from the" demographic dividend" to" human dividend" , not only the development of knowledge-based economy is not up in the future," manufacturing plant" will be moved to the Midwest from the southeast coast of China, then migrated to Vietnam, Mexico, India and even Africa, South America and other more advantage of cheap labor and land transportation is also convenient as the countries and regions. Only the formation of" human dividend" to maintain national economic development and the absolute relative high income and high income in the world to get balanced development.
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