Les smartphones « Samsung » : petite histoire de l’exploitation des employé-e-s dans le Sud-Est asiatique.
Factory Riots Flare Up in Vietnam over Samsung’s Violence Against Workers — Goodelectronics
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The riot is the latest manifestation of Samsung’s smoldering tensions with labor in Vietnam where it is now the largest foreign employer. In Jan. 2014, in a similar pattern local workers and South Korean security guards clashed at the construction site of a $3.2 billion Samsung Electronics plant in the Vietnamese province of Thai Nguyen, leaving 13 people injured.
Since 2008, Samsung Group has invested a total of $17.3 billion in Vietnam. Samsung Display, a spinoff of Samsung Electronics, alone is investing a total of $6.5 billion in the country. Currently, more than 100,000 Vietnamese workers assemble close to 50 percent of Samsung mobile phones and 100 percent of high-end Galaxy smartphones.
Apart from flashpoints like riots or violent clashes, little information is available about working conditions at Samsung factories in the Southeastern Asian country. However, the Galaxy 7 fiasco last year offered a sneak peek: Vietnamese workers had to assemble close to 7 million replacements for fire-prone Galaxy 7 handsets during the five days Harvest Moon holidays for the hasty recall that flopped.
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