Thread: Good Kiwi buggers making stuff.

Originally Posted by res

This out of date idea of Chinese factory workers has to die.

Most workers in factories earn more after tax buying power per hour than someone doing the same job in NZ would, and the govt limits them to working 60 hours a week max-this is considered a short in China but even so most of the factory's I visit limit workers to 50 hours a week. There is a issue around workers using another if to work as two workers on different shifts but that's completely by choice.
China is no longer the cheep place to get things made, and things are made to the quality that the brand wants and enforces.

Personally I go out of my way to buy NZ stuff whenever possible

I disagree, I see shit powertools and machinery from China everyday, I also believe that shit is so cheap it's either slave labour with no Health and Safety or care for most workers or it is all being subsidised by the chink govt! Can't say there's not good profit for the importers thou, priced a motor for a Hobart mixer the other day, cheap Chinese job, single phase, 0.75 kw, $4173.00 + GST ex the U.K... FFS we rebuilt it, the stator had moved, top quality for sure