MIJ-VI Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 "On January 11, guitar manufacturers from Korea will travel to Anaheim to protest the illegal actions of their employer Cort Guitars. In 2007, Cort Guitars—which manufactures instruments for popular American companies like Fender, Ibanez, and Gibson—fired all of its Korean employees and closed all of its Korean plants in a blatantly illegal move to avoid paying proper wages, or to fix its deplorable working conditions..." [url="http://axisofjustice.net/korean-guitar-workers-take-struggle-to-usa/"]http://axisofjustice.net/korean-guitar-wor...truggle-to-usa/[/url] [url="http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=11107&post=58564&uid=153636914012#/topic.php?uid=84437728562&topic=15007"]http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=11...amp;topic=15007[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 (edited) Supported, among many others, by Wayne Kramer (MC5) and Tom Morello. Yay! ... But [i]not[/i] Gene Simmons: "I am a firm believer in capitalism. If you don't like a workplace, you can go to another one" Funny how you never see the diminutive, stack-heeled, blood-spitting buffoon and Lord Tebbit in the same room. Edited January 18, 2010 by skankdelvar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Heeley Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 They can meet up with all the US and Euopean workers whose factories closed down over the last 20 years due to manufacturing moving over to Asia. Kort will lose the US contracts and business will move on to even lower cost bases in Indonesia, China, Vietnam,, where we will all complain about the shoddy quality and long for the days when we were able to spend far more money on instruments and keep the business local. It's all a sad mess. We're all too happy to be able to buy much cheaper instruments, but this is the longer term result of the inevitable economic shift. Ain't capitalism evil? Unlike communism, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moos3h Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 And so it goes... Replace 'Korean' with 'Indonesian' in approximately 2-3 years and repeat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thunderbird13 Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 (edited) I saw something like this last year and I'm still a bit mystified by it - OK Cort closed their Korean factory and didnt pay full wages so I imagine the workers are due a months salary. The stuff about inhumane conditions is not relevant if the factory is closed and their not going to work there anymore .Its bad and I would be pissed off by it but I dont get why its such a crime and what is the point of the protest its not as if Cort are going to reopen its factory there Edited January 18, 2010 by thunderbird13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Heeley Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Are they going to get much sympathy by protesting at NAMM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepurpleblob Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 I don't understand.... the link you sent says this happened in 2007!! They're still complaining about it? That's life, until governments force large companies into having some social responsibilities (and it's a big debate whether they should or not) they'll keep on shafting staff to get the lowest cost base. The thing that's sad is when people believe all the "we really value our workers" BS. Sorry, never fooled me and I've never been surprised or disappointed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sean Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 So, are they saying people should boycott instruments made by Cort, or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Could it end up in cort? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIJ-VI Posted January 19, 2010 Author Share Posted January 19, 2010 [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LpB1E4EE7k&feature=related"]ugly truth behind Cort/Cor-tek guitars[/url] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thepurpleblob Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 [quote name='Johnston' post='717510' date='Jan 19 2010, 09:32 AM']So basically they are complaining about losing jobs they didn't like !!!![/quote] And there's nobody in this country doing crappy jobs they hate, being bullied by psycho managers that they can't afford to leave because there's nothing else? Oh well, that's all right then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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