Exactly what “slaves” are you referring to? The workers in China on the Apple assembly lines are paid competitive or better than competitive wages. In fact, when there are openings on the Apple assembly lines on the TAIWANESE FoxConn plant assembly line for Apple products, workers queue up by the THOUSANDS to apply for those positions because the pay is averages 50% better than similar assembly work for other Consumer Electronics goods.
Add to the fact that working conditions are better on Apple assembly lines due to Apple’s very strict worker condition contracts which are monitors by Apple having its own Apple employed monitors at every location to assure that working conditions meet those standards. Apple has actually pulled multi-billion dollar contracts from suppliers who did not meet those standards. Such requirements exist from bottom to top in Apple’s supply chain.
The claim that “slavery” exists in Apple’s supply chain is a myth promulgated by a New York based non-profit called China Labor Watch which has been caught using faked videos, faked translations purporting to be interviews with workers supposedly who were complaining about conditions on Apple’s assembly lines, but actual Chinese speakers listening to the actual voices find they aren’t saying what the English translation of China Watch’s translation says they were saying.
As I said, Apple’s contracts with it’s supply chain prohibit any such practice and also prohibit underage employees. The penalties are draconian.
Incidentally, FoxConn assembles and/or manufactures consumer electronics for over 500 brand name CE makers around the world, not just Apple. . . Probably even the device you are using to post your scurrilous assertion against Apple. Meanwhile Apple is assembling iPhones and Macs in China, India, Brazil, Ireland, and even manufacturing several models of iMac and the Mac Pro in the USA.
The Chinese government has facilitated the mass transfer of Uyghur and other ethnic minority1 citizens from the far west region of Xinjiang to factories across the country. Under conditions that strongly suggest forced labour, Uyghurs are working in factories that are in the supply chains of at least 82 well-known global brands in the technology, clothing and automotive sectors, including Apple, BMW, Gap, Huawei, Nike, Samsung, Sony and Volkswagen.
This report estimates that more than 80,000 Uyghurs were transferred out of Xinjiang to work in factories across China between 2017 and 2019, and some of them were sent directly from detention camps.2 The estimated figure is conservative and the actual figure is likely to be far higher. In factories far away from home, they typically live in segregated dormitories,3 undergo organised Mandarin and ideological training outside working hours,4 are subject to constant surveillance, and are forbidden from participating in religious observances.5 Numerous sources, including government documents, show that transferred workers are assigned minders and have limited freedom of movement.6
Lots of stuff on China we don't here about
Every citizen of a Communist nation is a slave -- period. These labor contracts that Apple and others make with those countries are with the GOVERNMENT -- the communist government. The starving masses in China are only too happy to have these jobs, but make no mistake they have no decisions and no say in their hours, their pay or their mobility. The communist government dictates EVERYTHING on the labor side. They are slaves. Everyone living under a totalitarian government is a slave. Don't ever forget it.