Posted by masseur
(c|net article)
Apple has heard the critics and is now ready to take serious action against Foxconn's working conditions.
The iPhone maker announced today that it has asked the Fair Labor Association (FLA), an organization "dedicated to ending sweatshop conditions in factories worldwide," to investigate Foxconn facilities in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China. The first inspections have already begun in the Shenzhen factory, known as Foxconn City.
Posted by julias
About time.
Posted by mriley
Wont all the workers say they are being treated fairly to avoid losing their job/livelihood?
It would be good of this actually lead to improvement in the working conditions
Posted by masseur
Actually, Apple have always been involved in checking working conditions, they are now doing it more openly through a 3rd party.
and lets not forget that Foxconn serve many companies and yet it is always Apple's involvement that seems to get singled out in the negative stories.
Other companies include:-
Acer Inc, Amazon.com, Apple Inc, ASRock, Asus, Barnes & Noble, Cisco, Dell, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, MSI, Motorola, Netgear, Nintendo, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, Vizio (and more).
A recent recruitment drive saw thousands line up for jobs
Posted by julias
On 2012-02-13 16:03:45, masseur wrote:
and lets not forget that Foxconn serve many companies and yet it is always Apple's involvement that seems to get singled
Maybe its because Apple are now the biggest tech company in the world much bigger than the ones you mentioned and far bigger than even Microsoft and Google combined so you can't blame people for laying the blame on Apple, and since Apple aren't well know to be charitable the least they could do is look after their manufacturing staff.
Posted by Miss UK
I watched a Video on CNN about suicides at Foxconn I
think it was the Microsoft part of the premises!
btw the working conditions look ok but im abit worried how the workers have to live there aswell
who would want to live at work
Posted by julias
On 2012-02-14 00:06:04, Miss UK wrote:
btw the working conditions look ok but im abit worried how the workers have to live there aswell
who would want to live at work
Factory floor does indeed look ok but its the very long working hours for a extremely low wage ($1 an hour about 50p) coupled with the terrible "Sweatshop" like living conditions that make this a problem.
Posted by masseur
Cook: Apple's improved working conditions more than anyone (c|net article)
pple CEO Tim Cook again defended his company's track record on improving working conditions at the manufacturing facilities of its suppliers, noting that it has done more to address the issue than any of its peers.
Apple CEO Tim Cook at a company event last year.
(Credit: Josh Lowensohn/CNET)
"No one in our industry is doing more to improve working conditions than Apple," Cook said during an investor conference today.
Posted by julias
Then Tim Cook shouldn't mind raising the $1 an hour that the very poor and vulnerable workers get there, imagine building Apple products and then not being able to see the finished product and not being able to afford to buy one.I felt extremely sorry for one of the workers who i mentioned in this thread that she would like to be able to afford to buy an ipad one day how sad. Can't Apple give an iphone and an ipad each to the workers who build them surely they can afford to do that right?
Posted by masseur
Apple iPad plant conditions better than the norm: agency
(Reuters) - Working conditions at Chinese manufacturing plants where Apple Inc's iPads and iPhones are made are far better than those at garment factories or other facilities elsewhere in the country, according to the head of a non-profit agency investigating the plants.
The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is beginning a study of the working conditions of Apple's top eight suppliers in China, following reports of worker suicides, a plant explosion and slave-like conditions at one of those suppliers, Foxconn Technology Group.