Dyson abandons libel case against Channel 4 News over Malaysia worker investigation
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- Dyson, the home appliances giant, has abandoned its lawsuit against this programme after a two and a half year court battle.
The company sued Channel 4 and ITN, which produces Channel 4 News, for libel after our investigations team reported on appalling conditions in a factory in Malaysia - where Dyson products were being manufactured. But the case has now been discontinued - in what campaigners say is a victory for public interest journalism.
The original investigation was produced in association with Lee Sorrell Media.
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Dyson wasn't making enough billions so he sacked the British workforce and moved it abroad. What a patriot.
This is what a think , he thinks he's the pride of Britain . LOl guy is a disgrace
He has moved the research wing out of the UK too
Yes as a supporter of Brexit😅
Definitely “Sir” material
He got his tax breaks though and that was always the goal of Brexit
They run away from the UK and sack all their British designers so they can get away with exploiting workers in Asia instead. James Dyson campaigned so hard for Brexit and then moves HQ to Singapore so he can access the EU single market again. Utterly shameful behaviour.
This is what the wealthy do. They couldn't care less about ethics, civility, or basic human rights as long as they make money.
After that he ran away from sg and fire almost all of his sg staff
Thats capitalism baby. Aint you proud of it?
@@DemoNinja79 no
@@outsidestuff5283 sucks to be you then. Lol
Sir James Dyson needs to loss his knighthood. This man isn’t a patriot
I second this!
You clowns and your "patriot" this "patriot" that....
Why was that granted in the first place. What did he do?
James Dyson taking people to court for speaking about it, rather than doing anything to change it, says all that you need to know..
Rather than spend 2 years on court fees against ch4 they could have used that money to pay workers or find another recruitment agency. Dyson passed the blame on
Thank you Channel 4 News, for being brave enough to take this on and expose the truth.
I'm hugely disappointed with Dyson. I refuse to buy their products.
I've always refused to buy their hardware. It's very overpriced. I've had a hoover that I paid €120 for it and it was every bit as good as a Dyson that cost three times as much. The only reason why I had to dump it was because the neck of the hose broke and I couldn't get a replacement. The hoover was still sucking as good as the day I bought it after six years.
Don't forget Dyson's £600 hair dryer
Same here
That's my gut reaction too, but how can you know that any well-known brand isn't sourcing production from Asia under conditions little better than reported here?
There have been many third-world sweatshop exposé stories linked to names you might previously have trusted. Household-name brands that have been around longer than I have (and that is a *long* time) ) bear no resemblance to what they were back in the day. The branding stays the same, the company behind it might be completely different - brand sold to another company or be the same company but radically re-worked to operate in a modern globalised world.
And that's before you get on to lesser known brands.
Bangladeshi ain't criminals who got paid for trafficking?
And its appliances are ridiculously expensive- a total disgrace
And ridiculously difficult if not impossible to fix .
Good for them. As a cleaning business owner, I’ll never buy a dyson again.
The right attitude, unfortunately most manufacturers probably do the same thing
Even without this they are no longer the best . Shark are much cheaper and better
@@willhudson5625 by Henry Hoovers. They are all made in Somerset
@@snozrick I personally love shark but have had Dyson before. Usually whatever is the best deal when we need new vacuums. That won’t ever happen again tho.
You use Dyson inna cleaning business?
I would have thought not - they are flashy toys for people with more money than sense.
james dyson should have citizen ship removed and all should boycott dyson, they laid off all UK workers and replaced with this and yet prices go up and up into dysons back pocket.
This is what the wealthy do. They couldn't care less about ethics, civility, or basic human rights as long as they make money.
Well done Ch4. Dyson is a disgrace. He should remember he only got into Gresham's under a charity scheme. What is WRONG with the ultra rich?
Sociopathy
Greed
It's never enough
@@coppershark1973 Greedy bar stewards?
Could you please give more context about it?
So dyson happy to spend millions on legal fees but not pay their workers a living wage
#boycotdysom
#sharkoverdyson
As some random Tory said about 40 years ago, "This is the unacceptable face of capitalism".
European and American capitalists have spent the last 70 years exporting jobs and knowhow to the Far East in search of ever greater profits and destroyed local industries at home, undermining our tax bases. Sometimes, they have undermined the governance and social security of those Far Eastern countries to drive down wages even further. This is implicit in the Malaysian report. When are they going to be held to account?
This is what the wealthy do. They couldn't care less about ethics, civility, or basic human rights as long as they make money.
In my opinion anyone that thinks it’s worth spending £700 on a plastic vacuum cleaner needs to get their head examined.
Dyson was a big campaigner for brexit while preparing to leave the UK for the far east where working conditions are much worse, profits would be higher and he'd not have to wade through the paperwork created by the tory bridge burning with our largest trading partner, the EU.
he campaigned for Brexit precisely for this reason if UK was in EU he couldn't do it Europe would not have allowed it
Yes, they would. Do you think large European are clean?😅😅😅
Provide verifiable supporting evidence for your clearly pro-brexit, anti-European mindless gibberish.@@mrk1764
Remember the E U is corrupt to the core and you want to belong to that ? What a joke that is. No morals or integrity is the norme now . Not an once of shame.
Well done Channel 4 News 👏🏼
What a shame. I'd love so much to see Dyson as a Proud British brand. Greed greed greed 😢
Singaporean brand now
You want a British brand numatics! Made in UK!
I have owned several Dyson products since 1998. However the quality is not the same anymore. I've had issue after issue and and if you dare complain or write a low Google review they take it down!!!! I was also sent a semi threatening email for being honest. Dyson managment if you are reading this....your customer service sucks.
Same here. I still own and use a British made Dyson made in 1997, looking a bit battered, however still working properly after all these years.
However, my parents Dyson lasted only about 4 years before packing up. So they decided on a German Miele instead.
True, their products literally suck.
As Dyson vacuum owner, I have inadvertently contributed to the slave working conditions and brutality experienced by these workers. I will no longer buy Dyson products and do thorough research when buying any products in the future. For those workers, I hope you all forgive me.
This guy was a brexiteer and moved his operations oversees. Never will I buy something from dyson and I will recommend friends not to buy either.
Dreadful vacuum cleaners, I had 2, both failed within 6 months. Never buy another.
I could never understand why they were so popular. I’d use them in peoples home to clean up after installs and they were always terrible. I’ve 3 Miele vacuum cleaners, 2 are over 15 years old and they are still flying. Feck Dyson and their pretentious attitude.
£700 vacuum, £60 in parts and £3 in labour costs. Don’t be suckered!
That is why hes a Billionaire!
i stopped buying dyson after they moved overseas, just using henry😡😡😡
Well done Channel 4 for not backing down and fighting the threats in the high court. This is the kind of journalism that makes what you do so important .
Capitalism never learns. Shame on all the CEOs, Board Members, Shareholders and Captains of Industries who allow forced labour to continue to make profits.
oh they learn. They learned that slavery is profitable. So they do it as much as they can get away with
They learn that they can cut the labour costs by 90% and they thinks its just wonderful 😂
BOYCOTTING DYSON
To all Costco members: let Costco know (on their website/webpage, for example) why they should cease selling all Dyson products asap.
Show this news to the Malaysians. They'd be upset too considering a lot of these company prefer to hire foreign workers instead of the locals because they know they can get away easily if the worker's complain isn't from the locals.
I am a Malaysian. Most locals wouldn't want to do this type of job anyway. The task is too repetitive, and the pay is too low. This causes a shortage of workers; forcing these companies to hire immigrants. Many of them are illegals.This opens them to abuse by irresponsible employers. This is a known problem in Malaysia. In fact, there have been many calls for these companies to automate and move up the manufacturing value-chain. Some even want them to move elsewhere from Malaysia.
flipping expensive cleaners yet they dont pay their workers in a fair way??????????
Will not be buying any Dyson products. Those Shark vacuums look pretty decent 😂
I’ve had 4 Dyson’s, well my wife did, then we bought Shark, and I think Shark are far better machine and well priced.
Not buy Dyson since he support Brexit, then left the UK.
@@Fload.Ritlheyou mean Shark ninja or other brand?😅
@@kegenjund0 Shark.
bad ceo and over priced products i bought shark and am very happy with it
Dyson is guilty
Greed, greed, 😮
Iv never bought a Dyson since he backed Brexit
Oh my god I was just going to spend $600 on a Dyson fan 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 thank you Chanel4 👍👍👍
I wonder where their incredibly expensive new headphones are made
In China!!!
The earphone with a fan!? What a piece of junk! 😂
Channel 4 is the last bastion of true journalism in the UK.
Bravo channel 4
Anybody who knows Mr Dyson is utterly unsurprised by both the working conditions and their response.
Exactly the reason why the were bleeding employees in UK even before moving to Singapore.
Sir? James Dyson
Great work channel 4. This is what proper journalism should be. Dyson is appaling
You'd think Dyson products would be cheaper if they pay their staff so little.
All of their stuff breaks too soon... Never worth the money.. tried opening up a fan the other day and they make it impossible to fix, you need 13 torx heads just to open the base then it's a maze of parts that have to fit at exact angles and wires in certain tracts... The R&D just to make them impossible to fix is impressive. Monumental effort.
Planned obsolescence
@@Betweoxwitegan it worse than regular breaking, the effort in designing the inside components to not be fixable is more impressive than the design of the overall product.. it's like selling someone a shovel but inside the shovel is a rubix cube.
In other words... They hire
Illegal workers just to reduce cost... While ignoring local who is looking for jobs that of course cost more...
Basic business! If they can make the thing for 1/10 off the price. Wouldnt you?
Dyson sucks
Glad this has come to light
Ok, well looks like I’ll never consider buying anything from them.
guess it is easier and cheaper to fight in court instead of doing it right
Dumped the uk workforce because they couldnt force them to work 7 days a week forced labour, disgusting and i bet it still goes on!
I bet Henry Hoover wouldn't do such a thing.
What a shock, that Dyson uses another company to manufacture their products cheaply. As a result this other company does not pay their workers enough money and makes them work in conditions that is unfair. The root problem is Dyson, but it's not their fault at the same time. If you care about this issue and are in favour of workers. Then don't buy Dyson.
Who tf do they think they are?
Could it be that Dyson fire British workers because they can not exploit them as easily as they do when they shift their operations outside the UK?
Chickened out
No, Dyson's objective is simply to cost Channel 4 / ITN money in legal fees. The idea is to discourage future negative reports.
These defamation suits are getting ridiculous, anyone can sue anyone
@pc-dc4gm
My lawyer will be in touch as I disagree with your statement which has caused me emotional damage.
Standard modus operandi of sociopath billionaires whose only love is money. Dyson has always been too expensive when when still made in this country, so he never got a penny from me. Well Channel 4 for pinning Dyson to the wall.
All major companies who have factories in Asia treat their staff like this, as Labour laws are not as strict as the UK or EU
Nothing like an abuse of power eh Jimmy...
Dyson AND ATA have a shared responsibility for the health and safety of workers under contract. They know that very well but a dollar is by which we measure wealth, not the dignity of man. Shameful greed. If you want a reputation to defend, maybe have one worth defending.
“That’s slander!”
“It is not! I resent that! Slander is spoken; in print it’s libel.” 😵💫
-from “Spider-Man” (2002)
Their products are now awful quality and turn back to oil and raw metals as soon as you pick them up. If not that then servere scratches. Even the show units that are used for demos in John Lewis and Currys don't look good anymore. Used to be a great company but now has no morals and are serving markets they shouldn't be in (like the headphones market) instead of making reliable and good made products they used to be great at.
Unfortunately Dyson were never good quality products. Not like SEBO or Miele quality. But they are even worse now!!
Great reporting, well done.
They torture "escaped slaves"... as far as Los Angeles, CA.
I'm being tortured right now and I never even worked for them.
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James Dyson himself? Should he be sued for supporting Brexit and then pissing off to Singapore?
I had a dream I had a fight with Satan and he was holding a hoover........turns out I was Dyson with death
Ah yes, Dyson ….. Champions of Brexit and then pretty much moves all its operations abroad.
You can replace the Dyson name with any global manufacturing corporation and find the same bad behavior.
Which how much Dyson products cost, you'd think they pay the supply chain enough.
Yes after Brexit referendum, James Dyson lives in Singapore (how he evades taxes) but the factories are in Malaysia.
Now these factories were long built before James Dyson moved, and the work environment back then was much better...but since James Dyson moved, many Malaysian employees had their voices cut off, rarely any promotions or pay raise and pretty much everyone there is just learning as much as they can before quitting.
My guess is Dyson moved to using immigrant workers as they have less power in Malaysia (yes it's a sad thing in Malaysia) making the work environment more horrendous when it was already toxic.
a disgrace by Dyson but these countries that have big companies & cooperations using their people to work in horrendous conditions at times are complicit . Time for countries that have big companies & cooperations too stop them from exploiting their countries workforce so they could maximize profits .
I am going to buy 3 Dysons tomorrow, one for downstairs, one for upstairs, and one spare
Thank you Channel 4 for exposing Dyson.
Dyson would rather spend money defending the claims than fixing the problems. This says it all.
Oh dear, I accidentally shared this on all social platforms.
Glad I don't own a single Dyson product, and I will not even consider one in the future!
He voted out , and then closed his factorys in the UK and moved them to Asia, what a patriot. He only supports his own bank balance.
Look at Dyson review at Glassdoor in Singapore and Malaysia. Hahaha nuff' said.
We need more journalism like this.
Dyson is a sick company and a sick man
Charge the executive board. Why are the laws not used to charge these people in the boardroom, they are responsible within occ health inter alia
Why is it so fing difficult for corporations to do the right thing?
The same honourable man promoted the UK vote for Brexit, and when ir arrived, he moved his business out of the UK. Shur, how honest can you be.. Dyson is a smart, intelligent man. He's responsibility to ensure due diligence and duty of care to workers...
Many Malaysian companies prefer to hire illegal immigrants due to the cost savings involved. By doing so, they can avoid paying higher wages and adhering to the labor laws mandated for Malaysian workers.
I have never bought a Dyson product. It's overpriced. Bissell, Hoover are my main vacuum cleaner products.
Dyson offers fragile overpriced products that break easily. The wheels on their very expensive cordless machines just snap off!! Parts crack and break easily! Dyson outsource customer care to low cost countries like India and the customer service is absolutely shocking!!! Their repair engineers in Chippenham fail to repair products properly which leads to even more frustration. Dyson is a very corrupt company and James Dyson does not deserve the title Sir. He is a hypocrite and does not care about the people who work for him. I used to really respect James Dyson, but now I really dislike him.
Not too shocking that James Dyson has no conscience though right?
Why has his knighthood not been rescinded after he scarpered from the UK?
This is the same tactics used by the Post office
I can’t believe that 6 months ago I bought a V11. If I knew about this report I was buying something else.
I've worked in the same company for Dyson from 15 to 17 in syarikant sin Kwang plastic we've complain so many time about the living places and about the problem in the company working hrs but no body listen we also ask about the rights we have mr Lee have said we've no rights
First I'm hearing about dyson having a reputation worth harming.
Michelle Shi was actually defending slave worker conditions thats how disgusing Dyson really are.
Their products are exorbitantly priced compared with their competitors. Their shareholders must be ecstatic with the profit margins even after all the associated legal defence fees.
Thank you Channel 4 ⭐️
You can't just file a defamation lawsuit if the accusations aren't true, but in this report and the complaints from an employee, they are true. The brand and manufacturer are connected, and Dyson can't simply shift the blame to others.
Dyson winning or losing in court may be immaterial in the long run.
The fact is that the buying public has got the message about their vile corporate culture.
Not only they abused SEA workers, they have gone head to head with the media that exposed them? Happy to have never owned a product made by them and will now proactively ask people in my circles to stop buying their products.
Unreal and shameful on Dyson's part. I'll never buy a Dyson product after this.
Great work C4News for standing up to the Dyson bully-boy tactics of intimidation and costs.
A pity you cannot claim back from Dyson what they have cost you.
Hope you continue to pursue them and their ilk.
BZ
Dyson left Britain to get cheap workers abroad. I will never buy a Dyson again because of that fact.
Never have bought overpriced Dyson rubbish.
Well done… keep up the great work.
If channel 4 does a story on you, the last thing you should do is take legal action. Glad they went after Dyson hard.
Man... Every bits of Dyson component is extremely expensive, The owner just want to see their money grow in billion every year.
So sad
It doesn't even matter whether you knew or not, Dyson. It is your business to know. Companies should not be allowed to hide behind this "independent contractor" bullshit. The buck stops with you.