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Posted on 11/10/2020 5:11:22 AM PST by Libloather
Fruity cargo cult Apple has been hit by another child labour scandal, this time involving its Pegatron supplier.
The Financial Times discovered that Pegatron used thousands of student interns working overtime to assemble iPhones in breach of Chinese law.
The Tame Apple Press has been doing its best to make Apple appear the good guy in the scandal saying that Jobs’ Mob had “reprimanded” Pegatron.
After being contacted by the FT, Apple said it had stopped giving "new business" to Pegatron, its second-largest iPhone assembler after Foxconn. Strangely though, Pegatron does not appear to have received the memo and workers at the factory said it was still manufacturing new products ahead of the holidays.
Pegatron, which has headquarters in Taiwan but has operations in China, is one of Apple's largest manufacturers, producing iPhones, Macs, iPads and other components for several years.
It has also faced recurring allegations about working conditions from campaign groups such as China Labour Watch.
Until last month, thousands of student interns had assembled iPhones at Pegatron's Kunshan plant and illegally worked overtime and night shifts, according to former interns and workers at the plant. Chinese government regulations prevent students from interning in factories if the work is unrelated to their studies. The alleged coercive use of students during the factory's peak production periods mirrors the abuses previously found by the FT at Foxconn.
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Anyone with a brain the size of a walnut knows that the prices Apple charges for its products are obscene. Apple could move all of its manufacturing operations to the U. S. and still make a totally acceptable profit. I am old enough to remember when the Japanese auto makers made all their units in Japan. Now every one of them has assembly operations in the states, and they seem to be doing just fine. How did this happen? Apple and all the other phone makers can do likewise. We Americans should challenge all of them to a race. We will buy our phones from the first company to move its operations to the states. Let the games begin. We are such fools.
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I don’t know why we get involved in other countries affairs. I really don’t care what other countries do for employment. Yes I buy Apple. Don’t care how it’s made. Just keep virus’ out of them.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/09/apple-suspends-new-orders-with-pegatron-after-labor-abuse
According to Bloomberg, Apple discovered that Pegatron had been reclassifying students as regular workers, meaning they would receive overtime and work at night.
“Pegatron misclassified the student workers in their program and falsified paperwork to disguise violations of our Code, including allowing students to work nights and/or overtime and in some cases to perform work unrelated to their major,” Apple said in a statement seen by Bloomberg
“The individuals at Pegatron responsible for the violations went to extraordinary lengths to evade our oversight mechanisms,” it continued.
All cultures are equal, right?
Buying Apple products is like buying stuff from German concentration camps prior to WWII. Except that the Chinese atrocities in the camps are well known and German’s atrocities were not well known prior to WWII.
Biden will overlook any concentration camps as he is bought by the communists. Apple ceo is too.
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PS: IT’s China Labor Watch, again. An organization that has time and time again but found to counterfeit its proofs of such claims, using false translations, video from other companies as evidence of poor working conditions, and shill workers who aren’t employed at those companies.
The Apple event today was remarkable, btw. I'm sure you watched it.
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I guess this "source" doesn't' grasp how contracts work. What part of "NEW business" do they not understand?
WOW... interesting false equivalence. Apple has long been known for having the highest standards of all tech companies using Chinese factories. AT Foxconn, workers compete to get to be “promoted” to the Apple production lines because of higher pay, better benefits, and more “rights”. YES - it’s a high-pressure environment - with much more confidentiality rules. And yes, having “better” conditions in a chinese mega-plant is a relative term...
But I guess all the other China-made stuff you make/consume that really IS made in the worst of conditions and with FAR less effort made by the corporation who’s branding it bears...doesn’t bother you a bit... its just that little piece of fruit with a bite out of it that bothers you so bad? Sounds a lot like they hypocritical Marxists of the Democrat Party to me...
In what free-market, Capitalistic system is YOU getting to determine what an "acceptable profit" means? Are you on the wrong message board? Your post sounds like something from the DemocrapUnderground...
How is buying products from Chinese labor camps better than buying German products from concentration camps prior to WWII?
I’d say it is actually worse because while conditions in Chinese labor camps have been widely reported, that was not the case for German camps prior to WWII.
Keep in mind with strong facts you don’t need to personally attack people you disagree with.
See for example:
Where did I say that it was “better” - other than the Chinese factories are better than WWW Concentration camps.
Strong facts don’t seem to matter with some here - but your false equivalence attacks don’t help. I also noticed you didn’t even mention the part about all the other Chinese-made products that you don’t seem so bothered about - it would seem your tunnel vision, focused on “Apple” is hyopcritical.
Either you have ESP, or you are calling me a hypocrite because you can’t present an effective logical argument.
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