As Canada lowers its tariffs and imports more electric vehicles from China, an upcoming report from New York-based labour rights researchers is making new allegations of forced labour practices at the world's bestselling EV manufacturer, BYD.
China Labor Watch (CLW) received a complaint last fall from one of the thousands of migrant workers brought to Hungary from China to help build BYD's first European plant in the city of Szeged — a $6-billion investment intended to supply the European market with around 300,000 vehicles per year.
The non-profit organization launched an investigation and provided CBC News with an advance copy of its findings, set for publication later this month.
"It's important that consumers know what's really behind some of these electric vehicles, and the labour conditions that are behind the production of these cars," said project officer Elaine Lu.
"Chinese workers who are being brought in to work on these sites are being employed in quite horrible conditions."
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The report describes potential violations of Hungarian labour and migration laws, including:
- Seven-day workweeks with no days off to rest, with workers telling CLW they were instructed to lie to inspectors about their working hours if asked.
- Shifts of up to 12 or 14 hours, with only a short meal break and no paid overtime.
- Delayed wage payments of up to three months, with final payments withheld until workers returned to China.
- Steep recruitment fees used as a form of debt bondage, with low-income workers saying they were forced to stay despite poor conditions because they can't afford to default on their contract.
- Workers entering on business visas instead of authorized work permits, leaving them vulnerable to abuse and unable to access services like health care for workplace injuries.
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More angry nonsense.
I've engaged in good-faith discussion, but you have proven yourself incapable of comprehending what you read.
You don't, you are just trolling around. You are just hating on Chinese people while propping big corp like the Donald Bowman-stan you are.
But this is not the community for it.
No, you are incorrect, misinformed, and lack the reading comprehension necessary to have a productive conversation.
For example, you think Ecuador and Brazil are Western countries and continue to argue that case. You put your ignorance on full display, and then cry foul when someone calls you out on it.
It's the exact opposite. This is how I know that you cannot comprehend what you read.
You need to help yourself before others can help you.
"Western country" term is very arbitrary and most of Brazilians would agree if asked if they considered themselves part of the west. Unless you are talking about Global north/south.
Dude, stop pretending, you could not list something that was not USA before, you will not be able to describe western now.
You need better preparation if you want to be a troll. Right now you are just coming out was xenophobic/racist and big corp lover.
this is you:
I think I know who the troll is now. I gave you the benefit of the doubt, but now I'm just going to ignore you like that other guy.
If you're not trolling, then I hope one day you can learn from your ignorance.
You gave me nothing. You just wasted my time, but as long was you are here with me, you are not harming others. I am giving you the same treatment that I do when scammers call. I will keep you here with me so you don't hurt anyone else.
I tried to engage in honest conversation, I tried to clarify to you something you sounded ignorant about. You ignored my message, assumed I was antagonizing you, you changed your post, you changed the goalpost, you never addressed my arguments. You are just trolling here, dude. Everyone here noticed, and no sockpuppet you bring will change that.
The mods seems to be ok with people with your behaviour here. So I will have fun with you, the same way you are having fun with me.
Just in case I was not clear enough: I don't respect people like you, that find joy in the suffering of others, even worse when it is for profit.
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Lol, starts shit then runs.