“After a thorough, independent investigation found significant issues with working conditions at three factories in China operated by Apple’s major supplier Foxconn, the Fair Labor Association secured groundbreaking commitments that will reduce working hours to legal limits while protecting pay, improve health and safety conditions, establish a genuine voice for workers, and will monitor on an ongoing basis to verify compliance. The nearly month-long investigation found excessive overtime and problems with overtime compensation; several health and safety risks; and crucial communication gaps that have led to a widespread sense of unsafe working conditions among workers.”
from Fair Labor Association
http://www.fairlabor.org/blog/entry/fair-labor-association-secures-commitment-limit-workers-hours-protect-pay-apples-largest
Apple is an Affiliate of Fair Labor Association which makes them a Democratic Corporation using the criteria you established earlier.
Um, no mention of kids jumping out windows because they wanted MORE overtime. As expected, this report claims that Apple agreed to “reduce working hours to legal limits while protecting pay, improve health and safety conditions, establish a genuine voice for workers”.
You believe that you read somewhere that the reduction in hours was the cause of threatened suicides. I don’t doubt you, but you’ve bombastically claimed that it was a “fact” easily verified by independent research. Oh, and then you peppered it with insults.
I don't "believe" I read something, somewhere. . . I watched the interviews with leaders of the suicide threateners lay out their complaints. Have you READ all of the articles on the issue? I did when this was going on. , , the report of the Fair labor Association RESULTED in the cuts the workers were upset about. Their PAY OPPORTUNITIES were not as great when they could not work as many overtime hours as they wanted when to appease the international busybodies, workers were suddenly limited to a specific number per day, week, and month. I found it a humorous example of unintended consequences of "do-gooderism" at the time and posted links at the time to the interviews of the workers' complaints. THIS HAPPENED, and you can sputter all you want. The liberal press is trying hard to cover their tracks, but, Leonard, it is the truth!