Friday 16 April 2010

昆盈企業股份有限公司(KYE)

KYE Systems Corp. is a company founded in 1983, with headquarters in Taiwan Much of the corporation's business is in the manufacturing of goods for companies such as Microsoft and Hewlett Packard,--(wiki search--)

Fast Company
Underage, Underpaid Workers, Sexually Predatory Security Guards at Troubled Chinese Microsoft Supplier
BY Addy DugdaleWed Apr 14, 2010
http://www.fastcompany.com/1615888/nlc-uncovers-evidence-of-a-third-microsoft-supplier-mistreating-workers?partner=best_of_newsletter
"Underage, underpaid workers working 15-hour shifts, sexually predatory security guards, hourly pay of just 52 cents per hour(USD) after deductions for the canteen food. No talking during work hours, no listening to music, no bathroom breaks. These are just some of the conditions that workers at China's KYE Systems Corp. plant in Dongguan City have to endure."

"As well as Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Samsung, Foxconn, Acer, Logitech, and Asus use KYE Systems Corp. for production. Basic wages for the workers are around $112 per month--without overtime--and it only thanks to cheap labor and overheads that allow $300 netbooks to make their way into U.S. stores. It is not that there are no labor laws in China, it is that large factories such as KYE flout the regulations: Its workers' average of 28 hours of overtime each week exceeds the limit by 237%."

Full Report
http://www.nlcnet.org/reports?id=0034
The National Labor Committee (USA)
China's Youth Meet Microsoft
Leading Statement
"We are like prisoners... We do not have a life, only work."
Teenaged Microsoft Worker


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(昆盈企業(香港)股份有限公司 -
The Hong Kong Contact
http://www.hktdc.com/sourcing/hk_company_directory.htm?locale=zh_TW&companyid=1X02PKA2)


Porky's Chinese astrology Remark
Date of Listing, 1994/10/26. (TWSE)
陰曆甲戌年9月2日巳時
奴僕-太陽化忌會火星會鈴星會地空會地劫


大限(10年運勢)至:虛歲13~22歲(庚午)
2006春節~2016春節
大運福德-天同運忌,天梁,鈴星,
大運命-巨門,火星,地空
大運田宅-武曲運忌,七殺
大運事業-太陽命忌運祿

2010庚寅-會天同運忌年忌,天梁,鈴星; 會太陽命忌
3忌年???

Those factory workers are 工仔 rather than 工人 owners are .In pre-1949 China peasants were called 耕仔I read from HK newspaper that Pearl Delta River region HK-factories dislike the minimum hrly wage stipulation of 6 RMB/hr

Think-If they are not willing to pay 6 RMB (<10HKD)per hr there, no wonder one can advocate a min wage of $20 HKD here (Factor Price Equalization)

A friend of mone just told me the lastest quote of an 8-hr security guard job In HK is less than $5000 per month.I told him to start a 工仔 life. Ride a bike and bring cooked rice to work.

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