Apple is lobbying against a bill aimed at stopping forced labor in China

Washington comPost ^ | 21 Nov, 2020 | Reed Albergotti

[MtnClimber]

Apple lobbyists are trying to weaken a bill aimed at preventing forced labor in China, according to two congressional staffers familiar with the matter, highlighting the clash between its business imperatives and its official stance on human rights.

[MtnClimber]

Is slavery OK again?

[NoLibZone]

How is a Democrat being pro slavery,news?

[Blood of Tyrants]

It is if you are a huge leftist corporation that makes billions from the slave labor force it China.

[MtnClimber]

How is a Democrat being pro slavery,news?

That is not the news. The news is that The Washington comPost reported it.

[Hambone 1934]

As long as the sheeple don;t know and it’s in another country

[centurion316]

No need to spend the money. As soon as Biden is sworn in, their problem will disappear.

[windsorknot]

Bite the Big Apple. Don’t mind the worms.

[wally_bert]

Just when I was looking to replace the aged and failing droid with an IPhone.

I have to carry one that is company issued. It’s an XR that I have slowly learned to like.

[familyop]

I don’t see the appeal to Apple anyway, except that some kids who used them in schools never grew up. Don’t see any appeal for Microsoft, either. Free and open source is far better.

[dayglored]

*PING*

[Dr. Sivana]

The news is that The Washington comPost reported it.

Once every 30 years or so they pull it off. Stephen Mosher's expose on the one-child policy in Red China was covered in a multi-part series, resulting in Stanford firing him. The Post published the whole series, to its credit.

[Swordmaker]

Two anonymous sources claim Apple is lobbying against a bill (which is not named or specified what it contains) which would supposedly “prevent forced labor in China”. There is no evidence of what is contained in this proposed bill, or how it would accomplish this laudable goal. Would it suddenly banish all imports from China claimed to be manufactured with such labor, no matter what rumored source the claim arises from? What else is included in this bill? No one knows. I will once again point out that almost 100% of Consumer Electronic (CE) devices are made or assembled in China. It’s not just Apple. In fact, the usual company named in these articles, FoxConn, which is one of Apple’s contract assemblers is actually a Taiwanese owned international corporation that manufactures and assembles CE for over 750 name brands, including these top names:

• Acer Inc. (Taiwan)
• Alcatel (France)
• Amazon (United States)
• Amoi (China)
• Apple Inc. (United States)
• Archos (France)
• ASRock (Taiwan)
• Asus (Taiwan)
• BBK (China)
• Barnes & Noble (United States)
• BenQ (South Korea)
• Blackberry (Canada)
• Cisco (United States)
• Coolpad (China)
• Dell Inc.(United States)
• EVGA Corporation (United States)
• Fujitsu (Japan)
• GE Thomson (France)
• General Electric (United States)
• Google (United States)
• Griffin Technologies (United States)
• Gründig Mobile (Germany)
• Haier (China)
• Hewlett-Packard (United States)
• HiSense (China)
• Honor (China)
• HTC (Taiwan)
• Huawei (China)
• Intel (United States)
• IBM (United States)
• Kyocera Communications (Japan)
• Komko (China)
• LeEcco (China)
• Lenovo (China)
• Lenovo/Motorola Mobility (China)
• LG Lucky GoldStar (South Korea)
• Meizu (China)
• 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)
• Olivetti (Italy)
• OnePlus (China)
• Oppo (China)
• PackardBell (Netherlands)
• Panasonic (Japan)
• Philips (Netherlands)
• Pioneer Electronics (Japan)
• Samsung (South Korea)
• Sanyo (Japan)
• Sharp (Japan)
• Siemens (Germany)
• Smartisan (China)
• Sony (Japan)
• TCL Communication Technology (China)
• Technology Happy Life (China)
• Telefunken (Germany)
• Thomson (France)
• Toshiba (Japan)
• Vivo (China)
• VSun (China)
• Vizio (United States)
• Vodophone (UK)
• Wasam (China)
• Xiaomi (China)
• Zoostorm (New Zealand)
• ZTE (China)
• ZUK (China)

Of all these companies, all 750 plus, only Apple includes prohibitions in its contracts against the use of forced or underage labor in any of its contractors’ employee roles. Apple includes draconian penalties to use such employees, including the cancellation of all contracts with a violating contractor, and in the case of finding an underage employee, requiring the violator paying the complete education for that employee through graduation from college or age 26, which ever occurs first. Apple has actually pulled multi-billion dollar contracts from contractors who willfully violated the clauses for underage workers and awarded the contract to other companies who had made higher bids than the violators. Apple just cancelled contracts with long time contractor Pegatron, iPad assembler, when Apple discovered they had violated their underage provisions this year by pressing underage student interns onto prohibited assembly line work to meet an impending deadline. Apple maintains its own employees on the premises of all of its contractors to monitor contract compliance and workers’ working conditions. Again, no other contracting brand does such a thing. — PING!

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[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Sheesh. Trump should just go all the way and use his authority under the Trade Adjustment Act of 1964 to tariff everything from China at 25%.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Is there an open-source smartphone that I can get when my iPhone ultimately fails?

[Swordmaker]

The problem is expecting a company like Apple to know what a company like O-Film is doing at any one of its plants that are entirely separate from the plant that is working on products being made for Apple’s products. The innuendo that O-Film received 1000-2000 Uighur workers are somehow then working on Apple products is specious. The Uighur workers are not trained technicians. They may not be posted to the same plant, some city, or even the same province. They would not ever be on Apple’s employee monitors’ radar to alert Apple there was a problem.

I might also point out that Apple products are also being manufactured and assembled in multiple countries around the world including the USA. Apple is just being used as a convenient goat for these articles.

[Swordmaker]

Is there an open-source smartphone that I can get when my iPhone ultimately fails?

Why? IPhones are now being assembled in Indonesia, Vietnam, Brazil, and India, as well as China. There are no forced labor workers or underage workers being used on making Apple products. This is propaganda using Apple as a convenient target.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Thanks.

[minnesota_bound]

Apple ceo insists they pay the slaves a bit more then others and they provide a social safety net for when they jump off the roof of the factory.....

[familyop]

Some of the cheap phones are better than before, and nifty VPN apps are available. Nothing like a VPN and a privacy browser to take the ad revenues and personal data revenues out of ‘em. ;)