Are they going to go back after Apple closes up and show videos of the “starving” work force that used to work for Apple? Or else visit to a similar factory in a similar part of China and show u what the conditions are?
Investigators should investigate companies that are ten times worse than this and not Apple, who is at the head of the pack in providing the best work environment possible in some of these other countries.
I think it’s delicious that a lefty company is accused of forced labor and keeping workers papers thereby making them prisoners.
but they have jobs and want to work. . .
Apple needs to open up a plant in Furegoson
Wait a minute....workers are treated poorly in commie countries?
Whodathunkit.
I am sure the Occupy movement will take a stand against Apple. NOT.
I failed to find any mention of the fact that the factory doesn't only produce Apple products, but other products for other vendors also. Is that not the case? In which case what is Apple's responsibility?
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All the fat corps are doing this...
The punitive trade laws were designed to max the profits for the corrupt corp king pins on the backs of peasants and the U.S. middle class.
Dirt cheap peasant labor is king in the $$ biz...
It’s why the U.S. is crawling with peasant illegal labor, doing everything from warehouse work to McWhopper slop joints.
But once again, we’ll get the typical short attention span folks barking from the sidelines suggesting this is the only fat corp from the U.S. doing this.
Hey BBC:
China is a damned hard place to be a worker. Their system is extremely demanding and abusive, and human rights are trampled continuously.
Unless you live without any of the myriad high-tech electronic and other devices common in today's world, you too are complicit in the "maltreatment of labor in China", every time you purchase something "Made In China".
Try living for just one week without using anything "Made In China". That includes not just electronic gizmos, but also clothing, furniture, household items, cleaning and personal supplies, transportation, office supplies, etc. etc.
What do you know of the wages and condition of the people in China who make the things you use every day? Are you aware of their struggles? Do you even choose what to buy based on whether or not it was "Made In China"?
After a week of no "Made In China", report back on how well your self-righteousness about Apple is holding up.
And by the way, the same holds true for all of the companies who have stuff manufactured in China. I'm not defending Apple.
Friggin' BBC wankers. Anything for a headline and some web hits. High-tech whores.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/129561-how-many-people-does-it-take-to-make-9-million-samsung-galaxy-s3-smartphones
Buried at the bottom of the Reuters report is another equally interesting tidbit: According to an unnamed Samsung official, its smartphone factory in South Korea is running at “its full capacity of 5 million units per month.” Back in March, a Foxconn insider said the company was gearing up to produce 57 million iPhone 5 handsets this year — divide that by 12, and you get 4.75 million units per month.
Foxconn worker etches out the Apple sign on the back of an iPadNow, I’m not entirely sure how Samsung does this, but South Korea actually has a rather high income per capita — $24,000 — and the average monthly salary for a factory worker is $2000 per month. The average monthly wage for a Chinese Foxconn worker is only $400. As far as I can tell, this simply means that Apple pays significantly less to produce its iPhones. A report from February confirms this disparity: If you average it all out, Chinese workers get $8 per iPad, while Korean workers get $34 per iPad.
If we throw some other numbers into the mix, we can derive some other interesting facts about the manufacture of Apple and Samsung smartphones. In March, what seems like the diary of a Foxconn worker was published on the web. This worker, named Li Qi, says that in the lead-up to the launch of the new iPad, his production line churned out 150 iPads per hour. Li Qi’s base wage is 2,350 yuan per month ($370) — and considering Foxconn employees work six days a week and eight hours per day, that means he gets paid around $15 per day, or $1.85/hour.