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- Cort & Cor-tek, making a guitar, is rich company
Cort & Cor-tek earn 800 million U.S. dollars every year.
Nevertheless, Cort & Cor-tek had told lie to the workers. The factory was bankrupt.
Finally, The factory closed the door and the factory workers were fired.
we, loving guitar and music, will be cheering workers. Using our song, dance and posts
We wait for your participation.
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I used to work in Gibson Factory Nashville they treated us like animals, I had to leave the factory and now I am starting my own Guitar Company.
nice! best of luck!
What is the brand
@@TimO-wt9sz he said it
@@Marta1Buck... No?
Hope you’re still going and doing well man!!
Your Iphones and Ipads are manufactured at foxcon at even worse conditions for the workers.
And most of the clothes you wear too.
That doesn't make us bad people.
It just means we're too broke, because the capitalists that the workers are toiling for are in competition with the capitalists that are largely responsible (long side the bought federal government) for exporting our jobs.
Of course there are a billion other factors that exist in relation to the current situation.
Gotta love trickle down.
Just one thing to remember folks. It's all well and good if you want to boycott Cort and their products for political reasons, but remember this. Boycotting Cort guitars puts Cort employees out of work, which also keeps food out of their refrigerators, and if children are involved that makes it worse.
You have a choice to buy apple products or not and you have the choice to buy clothing from companies with humane working conditions.
Smartphones, tablets are luxory items. If you are so broke, you could choose from a lot of budget phone makers or choose a regular phone.
Don't blame capitalism for your choices.
@@onpsxmember where do the "budget phones" come from then? same if not worse conditions for the workers. if all you can afford is cheap shit then you don't have the luxury of choosing a company based on their labor standards. the cheapest clothes & phones are produced through atrocious labor conditions. its perfectly reasonable to blame the structure of our economy that made this exploitation possible
promote local goods
I just bought a Cort Yorktown a few days ago. It's a great quality instrument Made in Indonesia. I was searching for materials with regard to the guitar and found this. It's shocking to know that there's a sad story behind it.
These issues, while bad, are not limited to Cort, or Asian guitar builders. Most of the companies I have worked for (in Australia) are exactly the same. Minimum wage, employing people as "casual workers" so they don't have to pay penalty rates, unfair dismissals etc..the list goes on. I'm sure many of you have also worked for similar companies with similar attitudes. The Apple factory has been found to be far worse yet we buy their stuff without a thought for their workers, some goes for our TV's, Computers or any Chinese/Asian made product. We all want everything cheap, we're all to blame.
Australia is heading more down that road I am afraid.
Its capitalism running out of control and at the end of the day it really only benefits a privileged minority.
Yep, sadly universal. It's about profit no matter what. When the labour wakes up and realises they make a good product and should be paid more they close down and move to the next emerging economy and exploit those workers. Cort "ghost builds" many BIG name companies' guitars and it's those corporations that hide behind the exploitation world - wide.
@@AydinZahedi She is a korea fangirl so to make korea better she choosed a way to talk shit about another country lol
Low wages, no care for employees, slaved, and wrongful dismissal. And how is this different from any big company here in the states????
My heart goes out to them but I will never stop playing my cort that's been by my side for years
@oof the truth Your phone, clothes, computers, shoes, etc are all made in less than ideal conditions and yet you still use them. Does this make you a hypocrite?
Make music with it, its the only way you can give back to them
you should check leather factories in Italy you will start crying
@@CigLivery my thoughts exactly.
A worker falls and and everyone runs to see if the guitar is ok and not damaged? Amazing! That company really cares about the quaility of their product...I'm really considering purchase the Rithmic bass guitar! Thanks for uploading.
I worked in a Honda factory in America. Literally, people would pass out on the production line and they would drag them off and yell at everyone to keep the line running. A guy died of a heart attack and they found him only a few hours later. I've worked at a DuPont warehouse and had two co-workers get crushed to death by their countertops.
This is the "norm", unfortunately. The working class are modern slaves. It doesn't matter what country you live in, what product you make. It's all the same. The overlords keep their foot on our neck while the machine chews us up and spits us out.
But at least I got that $4000.00 guitar that cost two months of my salary. And I'm in America. So basically and almost literally the same situation except in a different place. 90% of the world is experiencing this or worse.
Believe me, there is no refuge, no dim-lit escape. Unless we're willing to let everything burn.
I think those workers can build their own guitar company..
Sad but true. This sort of practise is everywhere though. Not just Cor-tek. Probably the majority of PLCs. A PLC/business exists to make profit for the Company Owners and Shareholders. Do not mistake them for a Charity. They are not. Surviving in Business makes people and corporations extremely ruthless. They can always build a new factory and find some more Employees...
Consumers are at least partly to blame. They want everything as cheap as possible..
I just bought a used Cort guitar and was looking at reviews when I saw this vid. My hope it that my Indonesian made cort's builders were treated better because they were in Indonesia, which I believe has laws against sweat shops.
I heard other companies not necessarily guitar companies do unfair treatments to their employees and this has so stop. Guys, I own a 2013 Cort Earth guitar, and whenever I play it, I remember this video. They make good guitars, even though they went through this. I hope they are doing fine nowadays...
I'd rather pay a little more for a guitar that is made in a safe factory and treats their employees humanly.
I agree, but it is nearly impossible to avoid Cort-they have contracts with companies ranging from Epiphone, Ibanez, Squier, and ESP to PRS, Jackson, and Hamer. So either buy American/Mexican/Indonesian made guitars, or don't buy.
Connor Loughran Godin (from Canada) makes excellent quality guitars at very reasonable price. Their factories are safe and well ventilated.
Connor Loughran Sorry buddy, but Cort has factories in Indonesia.
transtremm I am using a Godin freeway classic, good stuff.
transtremm ..ok tell me one..or two
I'm 51 & been playing/singing/performing since I was a small child. Up until a few yrs ago, I played professionally for many years. I own and/or have owned untold amounts of gear, including a Gibson standard flame maple top, 3 REAL acoustic/electric Takamines, and a Taylor. In 2001, I wanted a kick around acoustic & settled on a Cort. It wasn't as good as my others, but we were very impressed w/the workmanship & solid top for the price. It blew away everything else in that price range.
I know most of the factories in the world, including a construction site I worked at, work like this, but that does not stop me from feeling for these folks who produce among the best acoustic guitars in the world. I was planning to buy one of the Cort Gold models, but after watching this video, I don't know if I want to benefit a Company that does not take care of their workers, and if I don't buy just to take care conscience of my conscience and many people like me do the same, some day, these folks will be deprived of even the minimum wage that they get. It's a conundrum and I will have to live with it. :(
🔵 as an acoustic musician i am truly sorry to hear of such discontent among the worker builders ; i hope Cort comes to gripps and treats you better and pays you more for all your hard work ❕ 😉
ditto - same for Amazon workers ❕😣
There seems to be a lot of people who don't like Cort...and well if you want to boycott Cort then you might as well be consistent and boycott, esp, Jackson, ibanez, squire, Washburn, schecter, or any other company that has guitars made in Indonesia because they probably made by Cort.
Indonesia conditions ain't any better...I know. Not that I'm against Cort but this happens almost everywhere...China, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myammar, Thailand, Vietnam, India...the list goes on...problem is capitalism which is a byproduct of democracy.
Capitalism and Democracy are the problems? But your first example is China... that's a bit ironic, don't you think?
World Musical Instrument Company makes:
B.C. Rich
Chapman
Dean
Gretsch
LTD
PRS SE
Schecter
Those brands are made in Korea,
Cort and Samick make theirs in China and Indonesia.
2:48 I didn't know The Beatles made Cort guitars. Man they did so much in their career
It's simple really, this plant makes people unhappy producing instruments to make people happy. I bought a used Squier Affinity J Bass two days ago and it's a fantastic instrument for the price. I knew Asian factories have bad conditions but I never knew it was this bad. Thanks for posting this video and letting the greedy capitalists of the world know how these people suffer. Sometimes it's embarrassing to be human.
See also Samick and World Instruments. They ghost build most "American" brands' budget guitars.
If a Paul Reed Smith employee drops and damages a 15,000 dollar Private Stock guitar, and it can't be PERFECTLY repaired, that guitar gets stripped of reusable parts and fed to a bandsaw. The employee is then asked very nicely to please be careful with the next one.
The main problem is not about working conditions actually. They're fired because Cort Korea factory bankrupted! :) And now they sue Cort and trying to collect some support for their case, telling some other unknown issues. Checking the net, I've read Ibanez stopped working with Cor-tek, Fender and some other brands still working. Why do you think long-time Korea manufacturing of Squier moved to Indonesia and China. If it wouldn't be cheaper in Asia, Fender would choose tho produce them
thats why i chose Ibanez,Jackson Carvin and Agile
well i preffer Carvin the most :)
This is not a story about Cort, this is a story about capitalist labor exploitation in a global economy. This happens in every industry, all over the world.
I'm seeing a lot of people making some fucked up comments, and a lot of people who are smart enough to actually see the serious social issues behind this video. These workers are working hard at their job because they can't afford to lose it, yet the large corporations somehow believe that denying their workers of basic human rights is a just decision (especially when it's maximizing their profit). As fellow human beings, is it not our job to care for one another? Or are we going to buy into it, shoving the idea out of our head because we have convinced ourselves that, because we are not directly committing these heinous acts against human rights, we are not doing anything wrong. These people are reaching out to us. Are you going to ignore their plea for help?
Cort is wealthy enough to have healthy and safe factory standards even while paying their employees a fair wage.
Problem is - greed.
Many companies are, but most companies aren't set up to provide as much as possible to their employees. It's just a fact of life, and the place to go to change that is the governments where the companies operate. Going direct to us with labor disputes, we'll never know enough to form an opinion.
I worked in a cabinet factory for the equivalent of $11 an hour when I was in college. People there worked at a pace you can't imagine, and with 500 employees, you only did one narrow thing over and over all day and down the assembly line the cabinet went, the next one showing up behind it (and you'd better not get behind and slow down the line - the rest of the employees knew a stopped line was trouble and they'd come down on you).
It's the reality of working in production, or retail, or anything where the labor market isn't that competitive.
I also worked in a tile factory and would've killed to work at Cort for that same period of time. In a month and a half, I ingested endless amounts of dust and drove machines I never should've been on at speeds (trying to keep up) that nobody ever should've driven. They were overloaded and I was stacking multi-ton bins of ceramic dust without being trained to do it. I wish the workers well at Cort, but don't have any interest in forming a definitive opinion that in reality will just put them out of work completely. As in, if Cort makes a guitar in Korea and you boycott Cort, the workers are out of work. If they make a guitar in Korea and you demand improvement in labor standards that don't allow Cort to make any profit while selling low-cost guitars to greedy distributors, then those workers again will be out of work when Cort changes their factory location.
Guitar making (of the lower quality guitars, which are still quite good) is a dog eat dog business, and the biggest issue in all of it is consumer greed. Try to make a guitar yourself. It costs me $400 in materials to make a good telecaster style guitar. The wholesale price for a guitar like I'm making is below the cost of materials because consumers demand it. We all want something for nothing.
I personally have bought guitars in the multi-thousand dollar range many times, but not many people will do that. The people who say they will don't do what they say when nobody is looking.
That would raise prices
This was over 10 years ago, has it improved?
Now they produce the guitars in Indonesia. But I don't know if Indonesian workers are treated better. I know one thing they earn very low salary.
When I lived in Korea I admired the Koreans for their methods of protest and strength as a unified people. This video showcases many of their talents including film making. The sad truth is that Korea has many people that are university educated and have military service performing low paying jobs. I recently played a Katana- and I love it.
Can any one add subtitles (there are Korean ones, but I cant copy them and translate them) and I would like to know what they are saying.
For all the shit talkers... if you plan to boycott Cort by not buying their product because of how they treat their employees then prepare to never shop at Walmart or anywhere ever again. All of it is made in China, India, Indonesia, ect. It has nothing to do with Cort; this is how all Asian labor is. My friend in Japan works 12 hour days.
holy shit. And this is why I only use canadian/american/european made guitars , my one chinese guitar witch was my first one , custom shop guitars or my own guitars I made myself. No aisian guitars. (no offense to aisia but come on pay them better AT LEAST)
Lol, I work 12 hour days. What does that have to do with poor treatment?
nicholas rizzuto
You probably make good money. They don't.
ESP_Guitarist I couldn't tell u what they make but in USD I make about $25,000 a year. I struggle on bills but I do have enough to live on my own.
Obama Da Niggy I didn't, my job is some shit! I heat treat steel forgings, on shity days I have to manually transfer 14,000 lbs of steel from big ass boxes and put them is smaller baskets. I have to not smoke pot to try to find a better job for the awful money I need to pay for other shit. My point was and still is I work 12 hour shifts and I don't get paid very well to do the ridiculous shit I do then when I get home I can't enjoy one of my favorite things in the world because of some pointless prohibition on a harmless plant.
I don't need to be told our government sucks and I don't feel bad for people from other countries who also have shity jobs.
this is sad but true..
world is fucked up..
big companies as nike make their manufactures in asian poor countries where you have lots of men, women and kids working over 16 hours / day, with a monthly salary that is not nearly as necessary to buy a shoe that they made..
most factories in the world are like this, ive worked places where they worry about the product more then the employee, id say striking is the best way to affect change. we sued ot have wild cat strikes, where we just stopped work, with no warning, until the problem was resolved,
***** That's correct. N E 1 who strikes should B FIRED IMMEDIATELY never 2 return, ESPECIALLY people in government jobs like train drivers. It's totally ABSURD how the government promotes communism by allowing them 2 strike, making people late for work, wasting their time, etc. If U do not like the conditions @ a job, simply QUIT! Work 4 somebody better, or make your own damn way making a business 4 YOURSELF!... so U can, like most people, eventually grow into an empire that will abuse & rob people just like the 1 U hated, as since it's easier 2 steal than create people always steal when they believe they will get away with it =)) Divorce rates in America certainly prove that much.
+Deathrape2001 We'll see what you have to say in a few years, when you're old enough to have your first job. Maybe your dad can help out, if anyone ever finds him'
randolph patterson
Who or what U pretend 2 think I am doesn't change the fact U R a racist who hates white people & wants them all destroyed under the boot heel of communism where U don't care that EVERYBODY will B poor (including YOU) except 4 the mafia @ the very top. Nobody is forcing these pathetic hypocrites 2 work extra-long hours. Even China has a 40 hour work week. If U R GREEDY enough 2 sleep on the floor 2 hours a night & work all the rest, that is YOUR business as U are FREE 2 sell YOUR labor. Grow a brain, U clown.
The only reason these sick, twisted bastards complain is because they are THIEVES hoping they can STEAL some 'free' money by getting other people 2 ROB the factories & just hand them the cash through 'wealth redistribution' instead of actually having 2 perform work 2 get paid. News flash: When U steal, it does not fall from the sky. It weakens everybody, eventually ruining the civilization. That's part of Y Asia is so backward despite the fact they work so much... because they all have such a THIEF mentality, like 'liberals' that way.
my friend makes his own guitars at his work shop garage,,,4 employees
all hand made in the usa,,,i got one from him for 300 bucks and now i will no longer buy anymore fake gibsons... fuck gibson and the overpriced shit they have a goodbye to the Chinese makers as well,,im keeping my money here in the us
samuraiman691 Help promote him. What is his E-Mail address? Say the 'at' so spiders don't pull it. Also, make him put up a web site if he doesn't have 1, & forward me a link 2 it here in replies =D I have some custom ideas I want made.
+samuraiman691 Maybe, but the parts needed to make a guitar complete ARE MADE IN CHINA !
+samuraiman691 Can I have contact info. I would like to buy an American made guitar for under $500.
+samuraiman691 whats his info?
+samuraiman691 Does he have a channel here in youtube? We would love to see his work
ibanez, squier, and many more guitars are also made in cort factorys, because its one of the most biggest guitar factorys that exist, and i agree that the working conditions are bad, but so are most factorys in that country.
This is true for loads of brands, not only cort
I build my own. I learned by messing around and they sound real good. Fenders and Gibson's are nice but way to over priced
I started my journey in the late 70's and never looked back. If you build a good guitar, you win. If you build a bad guitar you still win cause you have a junk guitar to rebuild.
This makes me feel sad, but I will keep paying for Cort Guitars because they’re awesome and never stop playing my 1988 Cort Flying V...
If you have bought a guitar that was made in Korea it was most likely made in the Cort or World factory. Manufacturers don't have their own factories in Korea they get factories like Cort and World to pump out their guitars.
I even wonder about most of the American made guitars because they still probably import their hardware from other parts of the world. I don't know how often the bridges, tuners, pickups, are made here or in Asian countries
i think in indonesian is so far going well. i live in jakarta indonesia, and i know exactly the where's the factory, and in indonsia so far there's no bad news about this factory. i have one of their product the cort x6. and its sounds good for the price that i pay. :)
admirable story of solidarity. Good!
Any factory is the same in every country, is what it is, its a job and its a company, never seen a company that cares about its employee's, though they ALL say they do but at the end of the day they will shit all over your life and not even give it a second thought , Like I said, it is what it is. (and I still love my Cort Panther)
what i dont understand is why if they can produce so much and keep the price low..why cant they produce enough food and housing so that those prices are low also..if prices of things are low then even if one has a low salary then they have enough money for what they need and to buy other cheap things. Much of the problem is that the governments create money to do what they want which causes the value of money to fall, and this hurts the workers who do not get an increase in their pay. It is a bigger problem when the government that is supposed to be working for the people actually works against the people.
I worked for someone that yelled at you for bleeding on their floor. Happens everywhere...not just these so called sweat shops.
I have Cort G 250 P Made in Korea. This guitar has really great acoustic tone. Electric guitar tone? I have many troubles with this guitar.5 switch sounds is not really great for my playing. I had three american Fender guitars and tell I sold. I sad.
I feel bad for them. But i love my cort guitar.
It's pretty sad. But try to buy any electronic device. Our computers, smart phone etc are all made in this same fashion. You couldn't buy an American laptop if you backed up a Brinks truck at Apple or HP. It'll come to a head sooner or later.
I just purchased a Cort "Matt Guitar Murphy" the other day. Got it on eBay (about ten year old guitar, very nice condition) for only $198.00 plus shipping. The ONLY new guitars I ever purchased were: Gibson Les Paul Std, Gibson SG, Taylor 214CA, a few Tele and Strat copies, Raven West Strat, and Epiphone Les Paul. All my others (about 50 or more) were used gear.
I wanna know is Cort manufactured on indonesia, and china. The same case with all world wide company like apple, etc. Cheap labour. This video is old? since cort not on korea anymore.
so would it help if i bought a cort guitar or if i didnt buy one?!
Frank Gambale banned me from his TH-cam channel for mentioning this in relation to his Cort sponsorship, I'll carry that ban with pride
"were cort in a trap " we can break out ....
Unfortunately often we forget that behind a guitar there are workers, people, lives... I felt guilty owning a Indonesian one...
Godin is probably the safest bet for human rights. Canadian Parts American made.
I have bought some Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, USA and India instruments , I have not bought any Cort they just don't do it for me. And although we all wish for originality, damn man a lot of these copies are even better than the real thing, there's no denying Gibson & Fender have slacked in their workmanship, I love Dave Murray's black strat which I could never afford but I can make one if I buy the parts at lesser costs, that's a better option for me.If you and I like the playability of an instrument I'm pretty sure we'd buy it if we can afford it, the instrument market is flooded with fakes for at least 100 years if not more.
In protest i'm not going to buy any cort guitars. Oops! I don't anyway, well I guess I've been protesting against cort all my life without even knowing it. I knew I was put on this earth to do good : )
according to a conversion online 1.000.000won is about 884 US dollars
Carvin. Amazing American-made guitars and amps at factory prices.
Absolute BS. My standard Carvin is the most expensive guitar in my collection even more expensive than my lead's PRS. You can get a fully decked out Cort with great actives and monster finish for just $500. Cort has always been one of the best bang for buck guitars alongside Ibanez.
too bad carvin is dead now.
Does anyone know the name of the song playing in the background ?
+A-Way youre an idiot.
Neil Zaza switched from Cort to Carvin.
He raves about his new guitar, not so good of his old guitars.
It's unusual for an artist to talk about his old brand he used to endorse, much less in negative way.
I sold my Cort for an Estaban, which I sold for a First Act, which I traded for a Daisy Rock. I traded in the Daisy Rock even for my latest guitar which is a Hexomorph Volcano. The Volcano utilizes a stunning Koa top and Tone Shaper circuitry and has a AAA flamed maple compound radius neck, a Jason Lollar 52T and Lindy Fralin Hybrid Blues pickups along with 4-way switching. I think I'll trade it back for another Cort. No wait, I won't.
oh wow, Cort treat their workers like shit, so do Nike, Adidas and all other big companies. Have you all forgoten about Gibsons big deal with the woods they were using recently, look at all those animals whos home was destroyed too... You buy something thats mass produced, this is what happens...
Proud Owner of a Cort Curbow 5 Bass :D
Saya suka Cort! Saya memilih Cort!!!
Imagine what could be happening on the Chinese factories, were you can't even complaint or they dissapear your body, not just fire you.
is this really true..??
probably in Mexico. It's was simple. It was a lot cheaper to do it, so they were once produced in Korea. But when the workers started to look for their rights and want to get what they deserve, suddenly the factory bankrupted :)
Did you make ESP LTD guitars? If so I'm sending mine back.
The UK is going this.
Our current government is hell bent on taking away as many rights as they can.
i hope they treat their workers better but Cort guitars are super great value. High quality, low price. i guess the workers got the short end of the stick.
Word "wage" can be confusing at times. You might be paid weekly there, (if that's what you mean by wage) But in Turkey, European countries, Arab countries and Asia, we all have it "monthly". There is no other word for getting to be paid monthly or at least she doesn't know that, so that's why she uses "wage" (I might be wrong about the statements, don't have time to search) I'll be glad if you confirm it.
i love my dreadnaught Cort Earth Grand BW OP....once change the plastic Nut & Plasstic Saddle to Bone...& the pin from plastic to ivory....It more roar.....more sustains :)
this is sad but I don't think you need to go on a hunger strike and fight a company, learn the tools of the trade then you will be a valuable worker, then quit and work for other companies
I'm so happy I bought my new guitar!!! Made in INDONESIA and proud not made in USA. AS much as I support our economy and the quality of U.S made guitar I discovered the sweat shop conditions guitar factory workers go through in order to make you a $4000 guitar for a 1/4 of the price. It took blood sweat and tears from dozens of humans all ages, 80 hr weeks minimum wage, inadequate conditions U.S workers take for granted, working non stop getting fired for the smallest details. Respect what you got and DONT LOW-BALL foreign made products as they work their lives off for you just to survive in this fkd up world economy of supply and demand. Thats why I didnt buy an overpriced U.S made guitar.
where do u live? what brand is it? i wanna buy an electric guitar in indonesia. Les paul.. im from manila
that difference is not only because of the wood quality of course. At least half of that price change is because of what american, mexican and chinese workers have been paid. Cheaper guitar, usually less payment to workers. Working hours is not an issue here, cos they don't get paid for hours. Remember it's monthly...
@mattallica464 thats a dumb argument... living conditions and purchasing power vary across countries, monetary value cannot be compared on such a level
they make good guitars. they should pay their employees fairly
I love all my Cort basses.
They should have went to work for World Musical Instrument Company, they are in Korea.
I was an employee at World Musical Instrument Company, even I reached at Q.C position they treated me as same as Cort. Low salery, over time working, very bad quality meals, and co-workers who don't care about the instruments what they are making, meaning they don't put any effort. t
They just kill time and go home.
That's why I "HATE" Korean made guitars that are totally SH*T.
Cort just lost my business
The point is: Is this true? How can we know? I think many big companies want people to think Cort is evil, right?
Some of it might be. But it's very one sided. Just the other day on youtube, I saw a guy visit a factory in Indonesia that was probably Cort affiliated. It wasn't the open spaces one sees in America but it wasn't a hellhole either, and the workers seemed well, like your average manual labor workers. This video seems more about the two factories that Cort suddenly closed down without warning in the early 2000's.
Minimum payment (around 472$ a month)
Fuel 2,53$ a liter (aroun %60 government tax)
It's not just cort, it's the world we're living. How many teachers do you think are paid $15 every month or even less?
cort makes guitars for alot of brands like fender squier and ibanez
would be nice if someone could translate the Korean... but yes cheap often means hard working conditions and low wages.
Hmmm... it reminds me of how workers were (and in most cases still are) treated in Europe back in the '60es. And back then, the police shoot at striking workers asking for the very same things of these asian workers. So, what this vid is telling me is that these workers have a long, hard struggle in front of them. I wish them luck. And I'm still very happy with my newly acquired Cort Custom Z-1...
People get all sentimental about guitar making while ignoring the manufacturing processes involved in literally every other single thing they buy.
i just bought a cort X-6 vpr... nd it xcualli rocks...
this was... such a disappointment... I have a cort guitar and I can only praise the manufacture workers... But... I will share this. Go to hell Cort.
Good point. Forgot about taxes.
I'll bet (but excuse me if I'm wrong) the S. Korean government takes a higher % than the American government, though S. Koreans must apparently still make around one million Won after taxes.
I knew there was a reason that I thought Cort sucked.
Who buys cort guitars? i have one and its very good, besides cort make guitars for many other companys including fender, freedom and ibanez. dude, u could be buying cort guitars without knowing it, i dont support bad working conditions but cort do make good guitars.
i can't get anything from this video because I DONT UNDERSTAND JIBBERISH
without caption
Sounds like what Wisconsin is shooting for.
Actually, no.
If you work 40 hours a week (minimum amount to be considered full time).
At $7.25/hour (minimum wage in Iowa), one week's wages is $290.
Multiply that by four and you're at $1,160/month.
But I get your point. It's not that different. But maybe living in S. Korea costs more?
Either way...down with Cort! (Or whatever hippies would yell these days)...
Where is different? Iphone? Samsung? Come on..
minimum wage in Poland is round 1000 PLN . So 1mln = 930$ = 2900 PLN
I would like my parents to work for that money .
Find a few like minded and skilled people, start your own company and work for yourself instead of complaining. You are free to leave the company if you don't like it. You are not slaved to them.
Rich boss,minimum wage,long hours,occasional unfair dismissals blah blah.This could apply to many large industrial companies all around the world.I fail to see why Cort is singled out.And as for the protesting workers:nobody forces them to work there do they?
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jdessell Chapman Guitars aren't built by CORT. They are made by World Instruments.
And who's to say that company x didn't try to buy out Cort (which happens a lot) and Cort said no thank you, so Cort who to my knowledge also builds for other companies are seen as a threat, then company x is now determined to put Cort out of business because they are a threat to their Far East building market. It's just like dirty politics, they can be out to destroy the competition.
I never said it was easy, quite the opposite but like I did say you have to make some sacrifices. I also agree with ur comment, there society is pride and honor based. I guess we can learn our lesson from that, fuck pride and honor, you gotta get ur monies lol..... well more monies