dannykorrson
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de chinese tech-blog midifan heeft in de afgelopen dagen behringer van copycat gedrag beschuldigd. bovendien word behringer ervan beschuldigd zijn arbeiders onder slechte omstandigheden te laten werken. dit is Uli's antwoord erop.
Hello everyone,
since the media has picked up on the Chinese Media legal case plus the factory labor strike last year, please allow me to respond.
In the spirit of transparency, I believe it is important to address and correct some of the misconceptions associated with these topics. It is also worth mentioning that none of the media outlets has ever contacted our head office nor myself for comments despite the fact that each of them claimed to have done so. As you are aware, I am all always reachable through social media channels and never shy away from sensitive topics.
Over the past 30 years that we have been in business, we’ve had a rather ambivalent relationship with the some media houses simply because we have chosen not to advertise.
The reason is simple – we don’t believe in the common and dishonest “pay to play” scheme, where favorable reviews are granted in return for placing ads.
As you can easily imagine, some magazines chose to retaliate and publish very biased and unfavourable articles and reviews.
However I have always believed that people are smart enough to see through this behavior.
We believe that our customers deserve unbiased, honest and independent user reviews that easily be found on many trusted retailers’ websites.
Let me be very clear – there are honest publishers whom we have incredible respect for as the have chosen integrity over commerce.
Since I am not yet familiar with the Chinese Media case in question, I will need to first gather all facts, especially as a complex foreign language is involved. Please give me a bit more time and hence allow me to first address the factory labor strike that happened last year.
First of all, let me be very clear that our factory called MUSIC Tribe City has passed all environmental tests executed by a government certified lab as part of the stringent occupancy permit process. Over 3,000 air samples were taken from all areas of the factory, comprehensive results were published and made available to all our factory people.
When we moved into our new factory this year, the environmental tests had not yet been completed and a few weeks after our move, one of our engineering colleagues was unfortunately diagnosed with leukemia.
While it is easier for us Westerners to understand that cancer won’t develop within a few weeks, panic spread among the people who believed that the person’s illness had to do with the new factory environment and people decided to strike.
During the environmental testing period, our people were allowed to stay at home while receiving full pay and after the results were published, operations immediately resumed. Neither were formaldehyde nor other hazardous chemicals found as suggested by the media. While not mandated by law and contrary to what was published, we certainly covered the person’s medical bills. Most importantly we’re extremely happy that our colleague is now recovering and will hopefully soon return.
Who in today's world would not consider employee health and wellbeing to be the highest priority? Only a safe, well-treated and engaged workforce will care about your company and deliver outstanding results. We’re taking employee health, safety and environmental aspects extremely seriously and hence we have been implementing many “green” projects such as electric buses, wastewater and dust collection and recycling systems, etc.
In fact, this is the exact reason why we built our own factory and not rely on third party contractors like our competitors. We believe in making a difference when it comes to how our workforce is treated and the way we manufacture our products.
Everyone is invited to visit us in Zhongshan and we're happy to show you around and meet our people. Our head of operations at MUSIC Tribe City is Paul Coates, a British individual and the head of HR and People Development is Dominik Klett who originates from Germany. Both are exceptional and caring individuals who enjoy my full trust to look after our people and the factory.
My colleagues and I will be more than happy to show you around – drop by any time. And if you like to speak to any of our people here on our MUSIC Tribe Facebook page, just contact them.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/MyMUSICTribe/
We are certainly not perfect and never will be, but I can tell you that we are damn proud of our people and our engagement with them.
And finally, I too live and work in MUSIC Tribe City - hence we all breathe the same air.
Thanks for listening and your great support.
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