Cort worker abuse

[PORKO.]

Hi guys I stumbled upon this website recently, really interesting I suggest you guys check it out too, especially guitar players.

http://cortaction.wordpress.com/

Apparently there was another thread on this topic a couple years back if i recall correctly. The thing is that the Cort factories make guitars and parts for many other brands too such as Ibanez, Schecter, ESP, Fender, Gibson. So it's likely your first guitar(or perhaps parts of it) was made in a cort factory. I know mine is.

Sure worker abuse is apparent in other industries too (everyone remembers the Nike incident right?), but what really got me was this part:

'Because it was so hard, she cried every day, and because she couldn’t win in this kind of situation, eventually, she left the company. Soon after her resignation, she hung herself to death on the mountain behind the factory because of the depression this constant harassment caused her, still wearing her work vest stamped with “Cort” (the company name) on the back.'

Exploitation is commonplace in any industry thanks to capitalism, but to the extent of causing death? That's just too much.

 

[AzNjT]

no way ESP has anything from Cort.
It's a completely different manufacturing country.
unless you meant LTD? but its not ESP.

 

[PORKO.]

Yup I was referring to the LTD guitars but ESP owns LTD so I thought I'd mention the original brand instead, sorry if the phrasing caused any misunderstanding. This applies to the cort-made squier guitars and epiphones under fender and gibson respectively too.

 

[AzNjT]

have u also seen the video diaries?

 

[mrekoj]

OT a bit
but this poster is kind of cute

 

[LadyInTears]

............. might as well boycott your favourite sneakers as well..

 

[templar03]

I believe i posted this a year ago. It's sad. It really is :/

 

[3hree6ixty]

That is why I dont buy Cort. Out of principle.. Then again, *checks his guitar collection* I dont own any of the 5 listed brands, either.. Save for a 1979 Fender. But I'm sure it was made before production was moved to the Far East...

 

[PORKO.]

............. might as well boycott your favourite sneakers as well..

Well, it's not really about boycotting every brand that practices worker exploitation. That'd be impossible. The difference in this case is that the workers themselves are trying to reach out to us, it'd be inhumane to just ignore them.