Brazil shuts BYD factory site over 'slavery' conditions

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• normal_user@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just to make things more clear for people, this is about subcontractors, employed by what looks to be a local building company that is making a new factory for BYD EVs.

  I think the article’s title really makes it look like BYD is the one withholding passports and wages, but actually they are not and inside the article they say BYD has already asked the subcontractor to improve working conditions before it became news, but they didn’t comply.

  The article doesn’t specify how much BYD’s executives knew or if they had the ability to change things by their own choise.

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  • graymess@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think it’s BYD’s responsibility to know such things. This feels like the argument Hershey’s made when they got caught using slave labor to source their cacao.

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah, absolutely. They can’t simply shift all responsibility to someone else.

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  had their passports and salaries withheld by a building company

  Usually “conditions similar to slavery” in Brazil doesn’t imply the people can’t quit their jobs. This is fucking “literal”, not “similar”.

  Also, WTF, importing cheap workers to a job in Brazil is close to absurd. They aren’t allowed to pay less than they would pay a local.

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• blaue_Fledermaus@mstdn.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I'm from Brazil. It's impressive how fast BYD cars have been multiplying in my city.

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  • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I mean, it’s because they are cheap and decent. But I guess it’s impressive since other car makers have failed to do the same thing.

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• zante@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  EV sales in China have been boosted by government subsidies. which encourage consumers to trade their petrol-powered cars for EVs or hybrids. 

  But there is a growing backlash abroad against what some see as the Chinese government’s unfair support for domestic car makers.

  Just the bbc doing BBC things

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  • logi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Congratulations, you found the second and third last paragraphs of the article where they tack on a slightly wider view in case you’ve missed it. It’s far from being the meat of the story.

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  • lnxtx@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, bailing local car companies was OK.

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  • syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No, there really is talk of tariffs several places to neutralise the price advantage that the Chinese subsidies result in. The Chinese want to promote their domestic auto industries, but so does any other country with an auto industry.

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    • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Right but it reads very “omg communism Bad cuz it leads to… affordable electric vehicles… please ignore every other country that produces cars also having subsidies.” The US changed its subsidies to only US built EVs and then complains that the Chinese government is making EVs affordable.

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