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Apple Puts Foxconn Factory in India on Probation Following Protests
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Because they don’t force their workers to work there? What’s your definition of a slave?
Why don’t you ask the questions in reverse, and see if that solves both problems?
Also, I don’t think China needs foreign investments. They are lending to the world it seems, the US included. What they need is advanced technology know how.
Not sure about India, but those Foxconn workers in China will still be employed elsewhere if Economic slavery never happened. It would only have accelerated industrial upgrade.
The technology probably exists given that Liam exists, but it’s probably not very cost efficient. Each new generation and new configuration will need a new automation process that will cost way too much just to be changed a year later. Look at how much trouble Tesla had with automating the Model 3 manufacturing, and that was for components much larger than the iPhone’s.
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Pretty sure assembly could be done in US as we had a foxxconn factory for the 5C here in Brazil and it worked without any issues.
You really forgot to mention how the capitalist American loves que comunist China for obvious reasons. Full state control over speech, major infrastructure channels and technology people can use.
Funny tho' they won't allow a little island to the east of its florida state to live like that.
No need, Apple simply should take a smaller cut of the pie. 38% should be dropped to 25% and it will be good for Human Rights…
It’s not a question of whether it’s possible, but of know-how of mid-end manufacturing and and infrastructure. The 2013 Mac Pro was assembled in the US, but Apple had so much trouble with supply chain despite it being such a low volume product that they never did the same with other products. Now even some non-US Mac Pro production has been moved back to China. Louis Vuitton bags need thousands less components than what is inside an iPhone. You will need massive investments in supply chains to make it work, and even then Apple will have trouble getting enough skilled assembly line workers that can make enough for the global market, especially during the production ramp up every fall.
You do have to protest. Without workers protesting, corporate overlords will continue to exploit the worker. Hail, if it weren't for our grandfathers and great-grandfathers protesting, child labor would still be a thing in 'Merica. The sooner the working class realize they are the majority--united, that they wield the power--the sooner they undue the exploitation.
Look at what happened in Iceland in 1975. Women demanded equal rights and were ignored. So the women walked out on their jobs, walked out on their home duties. Us manly men folk were overwhelmed by the workload and caved. Icelandic women earned their equal rights and five years later elected their first female leader.
You do have to protest.
Don't I know it. I've got 3 jobs.? Finding an well paying and easy job, now that's ain't easy unless you've got some rich relatives or know some corrupt politicians. Don't believe the "hard work pays off" BS Corporate America spouts, eg. ever heard of a rich donkey??
Brazil imposes very high import tarrifs on foreign made goods, which is similar to what India does. Without those tarrifs it wouldn’t even come close to being cost effective for the iPhone to be assembled in Brazil. And even today Apple has kept Brazilian assembly limited to lower volume products and never exported it widely outside of Brazil.
Robot hands are still not good enough yet. Besides, fully automated assembly can’t work everywhere and we’d lose an easy source to mitigate unemployment issue.
Maybe? Prolly because customers are the other half of this toxic reality we live in and directly contributes to what we have today.So maybe the workers should be suing the consumers?
This is not even remotely accurate. Protesting labor conditions in a factory geographically located in China is raising a dispute with Foxconn leadership— a private company from Taiwan. If we are still counting, this is classic exploitation of workers rights in favor of large corporate power. China's government at most would "over-regulate" Foxconn, not defend them. They are not even a domestic company.
I was told donkey kong made a fortune out of the game’s royalties. Same with the donkey who worked on sharek so, yea. Unfortunately Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh lost everything after a divorce and problems with substances.
Lol. You saw many movies. If a company do that, competition will produce for less and use these resources for more advertising, bigger factories or even cheaper products. The goal of a company is to produce for the lowest price possible and sale to the maximum price people are willing to pay. Do u know how much money is 13% of apple’s revenue? They won’t just ‘drop 13%’ Shareholders will kill tim and his wife.
The fact that Apple audited and put the factory on probation imo showed good faith from Apple’s side. The one in question is Foxconn. Even in China, we have seen news about Foxconn managers doing shenanigans.
Tim Cook has a wife?
unfortunately we literally do not have the kind of work force necessary to do this.
also... you think these people have it bad now? imagine if they didn't have apple. that would be 0 income.
Not a wife then, perhaps: boyfriend, partner, spouse, husband, domestic partner, significant other, etc…
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It depends. It couldn’t care me less about these overseas employees ‘happiness’ as long they produce for a low price a good product that we can buy cheaper in the US. I respect your pov but there are many.
I would be interested to know where the issues are coming from. Clearly someone at Foxconn is to blame - I would be surprised if Foxconn relied purely on local managers to run the Indian plants but you never know. I wonder if this is a case of Indian corporate / caste culture not yet being aligned with Apple's expectations (or Foxconn's).
Don't really see what Apple is doing wrong: they need hundreds of millions of devices assembling and offered out a tender to do the work that came with conditions for worker rights and safety etc. Foxconn accepted the price and the terms and have been caught breaching the terms. Obviously, Foxconn will pay financially from the loss of months of manufacturing, but I would hope Apple includes large penelty fines for rights breaches to severely discourage them. Of course, Foxconn could tell Apple to fond another manufacturer, but I cant see the shareholders/owners of Foxconn being too happy with that.
Don't really see what Apple is doing wrong: they need hundreds of millions of devices assembling and offered out a tender to do the work that came with conditions for worker rights and safety etc. Foxconn accepted the price and the terms and have been caught breaching the terms. Obviously, Foxconn will pay financially from the loss of months of manufacturing, but I would hope Apple includes large penelty fines for rights breaches to severely discourage them. Of course, Foxconn could tell Apple to fond another manufacturer, but I cant see the shareholders/owners of Foxconn being too happy with that.