| Rather, activist groups like SACOM and Li Qiang's China Labor Watch are using what they see as the multinationals' Achilles heel their concern over public image as a weapon in the unequal battle between the international giants and their low-paid workers. Like a guerrilla band harassing a conventional army, they believe their pinprick attacks, a 21st century war of the flea, will eventually force concessions. |
在这场跨国巨头和低薪工人之间的战争中，SACOM等组织利用他们眼里的跨国公司的致命弱点——注重公司形象——作为战斗的武器，就像游击队不断骚扰一只常规部队。他们相信，见缝插针的攻击将最终击溃敌人，这是一场21世纪的蚁象之战。 |
| Many contract manufacturers are multinationals in their own right. Delta Group employs more than 60,000 people in factories in Taiwan, China's mainland, Thailand, Mexico, India and Europe. According to its website, it produces power supplies, visual displays, networking products and provides industrial automation and renewable energy solutions. Chairman and founder Bruce Cheng has made large donations to universities in Taiwan, and the company has its own CSR program. |
许多代工工厂本身就是跨地区的企业。Delta集团在中国大陆、台湾、泰国、墨西哥、印度和欧洲等地雇用了6万多名员工。据它的网站介绍，该集团生产电源、显示器、网络产品，并提供工业自动化以及可再生能源的解决方案。主席及创始人Bruce Cheng曾向台湾的多所大学捐款，该集团拥有自己的企业社会责任项目。 |
| The company says it views the SACOM training course as a routine matter. "Delta has been conducting the training courses by itself years before SACOM/LESN's training courses this time. Delta itself will continue to conduct its own training courses like before in the future. SACOM/LESN's training courses are a repeat program of Delta existing training program," the company told us in an email. |
Delta说，他们认为邀请SACOM进行培训是常规性的事务。“在此次培训之前，我们自己就开展过同样的培训课程。我们还会和过去一样，在未来开展自己的培训。SACOM和LESN的培训课程是对我们现有培训项目的重复。”该公司在一封邮件中如是说。 |
| Delta told us that 65 percent of its Donguan workers are female and that the company "follows the minimum wages rule required by local government. Delta uses the minimum wages of RMB 770 (US$113) /person/month as a starting base. Delta workers can easily earn up to RMB 1300 - 1900 (US$190 - 278)/person/month." |
Delta说他们在东莞的工人中有 65%是女性员工，实行的是地方政府规定的最低工资标准。Delta把每人每月770元（约合美元112元）作为初始工资，而Delta的员工每个月很容易拿到1300到1900元（约合美元190-278元）不等的工资。 |
| Chicony vice president Chris Huang also indicated that their wages were around the legal minimum. SACOM's report on the training quoted him as saying "We pay workers in strict accordance with the Dongguan legal minimum wage law." |
Chicony的副总裁Chris Huang 说他们的工资几乎与法定标准一样。SACOM在对培训所作的报告中援引Chris Huang的话称，Chicony严格依照东莞的法定最低工资标准支付工人工资。 |
| The problem is that the local minimum wage is very low. Although Dongguan is a major city with a population of nearly 7 million and all the usual bright lights and skyscrapers associated with modern China, it has built much of its prosperity on contract manufacturing. Less than 2 million of its inhabitants are registered as permanent residents; the rest are migrants from other areas of China. City bosses, whose performance is still judged mainly by GDP figures, have deliberately kept the minimum wage relatively low, well aware that in nearby Vietnam there are millions of workers willing to work for even less, should the multinationals that, after all, call the shots choose to decamp. |
但问题在于当地的最低工资标准本身非常低。尽管东莞是一个人口近700万的大城市，这里霓虹争耀、高楼林立，一派现代中国城市的面貌, 但是这座城市的财富积累很大程度上来自于那些代工工厂。人口中，只有两百万不到的常住居民，而剩下的人都是来自中国其他地区的民工。城市领导人的政绩仍然以GDP作为衡量标准，他们有意压低最低工资标准，以防跨国公司选择去邻邦越南设厂经营，因为领导人意识到那里有数百万工人愿意拿更低廉的工资工作。 |
![Dongguan, which has a population of 7 million and is 100 kilometers from Hong Kong, owes much of its prosperity to contract manufacturing for major brands and multinationals. [File photo]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20091030/0011432100f50c54f47605.jpg "Dongguan, which has a population of 7 million and is 100 kilometers from Hong Kong, owes much of its prosperity to contract manufacturing for major brands and multinationals. [File photo]")
