Another outright FASEHOOD from you, LIAR! Apple's contractors would lose their very lucrative Apple contracts if they employ underage workers. Apple has pulled a $2 Billion contract from a company who did not clean up its hiring practices. The workers must be over 18, and the vast majority of the workforce is between 18 and 32. IF an under age worker is found working on any Apple job, the contractor is obligated to PAY FOR A COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY EDUCATION WITH ROOM AND BOARD THROUGH AGE 25 FOR THAT UNDERAGE EMPLOYEE! That is a strong incentive to assure no underage workers get through the hiring process! Apple's employee working conditions are written into every contract Apple executes and Apple has their own monitors at each contract plant overseeing working conditions, as well as independent outside labor agencies monitoring wages and working conditions as well, something no other company does.
The workers on the Apple assembly lines at Foxconn are paid between two and a half to three times MORE than the workers on the other assembly lines for other consumer electronic goods in China. . . and up to SEVEN times the Chinese minimum wage for factory workers in CE. Again, its in the contracts. That's enough to put those workers' income well within the Chinese middle class. Many of them live in the cities around the plants, although others live in the dorms at the plants. That's why when openings come up for jobs on Apple's assembly lines workers queue up by the thousands for just a few hundred positions! That is not slave conditions.
Foxconn, the primary assembler of Apple products, also assembles approximately 50% of the rest of the world's consumer electronic products for companies including:
- Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
- Alcatel (France)
- Amazon (United States)
- Apple Inc. (United States)
- Archos (France)
- ASRock (Taiwan)
- Asus (Taiwan)
- Barnes & Noble (United States)
- BenQ (South Korea)
- Blackberry (Canada)
- Cisco (United States)
- Dell Inc.(United States)
- EVGA Corporation (United States)
- Fujitsu (Japan)
- GE Thomson (US & France)
- Google (United States)
- Griffin Technologies (United States)
- Gründig Mobile (Germany)
- Hewlett-Packard (United States)
- HTC (Taiwan)
- Huawei (China)
- Intel (United States)
- IBM (United States)
- Kyocera Communications (Japan)
- Lenovo (China)
- Lenovo/Motorola Mobility (China)
- LG Lucky GoldStar (South Korea)
- Microsoft (United States)
- Microsoft MSI (Taiwan)
- Motorola Communications (United States)
- NCR (United States)
- NEC Casio Communication (Japan)
- Netgear (United States)
- Nintendo (Japan)
- Nokia Oyj (Finland)
- PackardBell (Netherlands)
- Panasonic (Japan)
- Philips (Netherlands)
- Pioneer Electronics (Japan)
- Samsung (South Korea)
- Sanyo (Japan)
- Sharp (Japan)
- Siemens (Germany)
- Sony (Japan)
- TCL Communication Technology (China)
- Telefunken (Germany)
- Thomson (France)
- Toshiba (Japan)
- Vizio (United States)
- Xiaomi (China)
- Zoostorm (New Zealand)
- ZTE (China)
Further, to highlight you abysmal ignorance, Apple itself manufactures MacPro computers at its Austin, Texas, plant, and iMacs at its Elk Grove, California facility, fifteen miles from my front door. You don't know what you're talking about.
Again, you proved my point, Apple does not manufacture anything
They are a marketing company
Period, End of story Hillary