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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:

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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13 posted on 11/21/2020 7:28:23 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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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%.


14 posted on 11/21/2020 7:36:10 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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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.


16 posted on 11/21/2020 7:37:19 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigot!)
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