Posted on 12/18/2014 2:25:06 PM PST by WhiskeyX
A BBC investigation for Panorama has exposed poor working conditions in factories making Apple products in China.
The undercover team secretly filmed the iPhone production line and found Apple's promises to protect workers were routinely broken.
One undercover reporter - making parts for Apple computers - had to work 18 days without a day off.
Other workers were filmed falling asleep. Apple say they will investigate any concerns brought to them.
The BBC's Richard Bilton reports from Shanghai.
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Are they going to go back after Apple closes up and show videos of the “starving” work force that used to work for Apple? Or else visit to a similar factory in a similar part of China and show u what the conditions are?
Investigators should investigate companies that are ten times worse than this and not Apple, who is at the head of the pack in providing the best work environment possible in some of these other countries.
I think it’s delicious that a lefty company is accused of forced labor and keeping workers papers thereby making them prisoners.
but they have jobs and want to work. . .
Apple needs to open up a plant in Furegoson
Wait a minute....workers are treated poorly in commie countries?
Whodathunkit.
Does that make it okay to mistreat them?
I am sure the Occupy movement will take a stand against Apple. NOT.
“I am sure the Occupy movement will take a stand against Apple. NOT.”
It would get in the way of their texting.
We were in a fast food restaurant when a mother and three daughters sat down to eat their meals. All four of the women were to busy texting to be bothered with talking to each other during their meal.
I really hate that. We are truly becoming mind numbed robots--and most of them are liberals.
Love it. LOL!
I failed to find any mention of the fact that the factory doesn't only produce Apple products, but other products for other vendors also. Is that not the case? In which case what is Apple's responsibility?
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All the fat corps are doing this...
The punitive trade laws were designed to max the profits for the corrupt corp king pins on the backs of peasants and the U.S. middle class.
Dirt cheap peasant labor is king in the $$ biz...
It’s why the U.S. is crawling with peasant illegal labor, doing everything from warehouse work to McWhopper slop joints.
Uh, no. . . totally debunked. No riot. Nothing happened. Single source claim based on a photograph that showed NO RIOT. Blloomberg got a video of a supposed fire and people in facemarks, but it was matched with an accidental explosion from a YEAR EARLIER. Sorry BZZZZT. Did not happen.
If you had bothered to read the thread you linked to, you would have noted it was debunked there in record time. . . your thread has exactly SIX replies. . . with #3 questioning the accuracy of the report and #4 linking to the story showing it did not happen.
Your third link applies to Microsoft . . . which is typical of a lot of these. Paint Apple with the tar from plants associated with ALL electronics assemblers.
Should you feel guilty about owning an iPhone? How about owning an Microsoft Xbox, Nokia Phone, HP Computer, Sony Play Station, Samsung phone, or ANY electronic device. FoxConn makes products for every electronic company you can name. I published a list of the companies that contract with FoxConn, or HonHai the parent company that owns FoxConn, and it included 250 name brands of electronics. You cannot escape it.
Finally, your last link has to do with bringing jobs home to the United States. Apple employs more US workers than almost any other tech sector company, and they are NOT minimum wage jobs. . . and also manufactures computers in the US at their Austin, Texas plant. . . where both iMacs and the Mac Pro are manufactured. I have posted photos of both products showing "Made in the USA" on these computers, which to be used requires that 80% of the product must be made in the United States. I have also published a list of the components of the Apple Mac Pro and the states in which those parts are manufactured.
But once again, we’ll get the typical short attention span folks barking from the sidelines suggesting this is the only fat corp from the U.S. doing this.
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