Dear me.
They are a company that makes consumer electronics if your misguided love for them leads you to try and defend them profiting from child labour then you need to think about how that puts you across.
This is absolutely Apples problem.
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Apple Taking Action After Students Worked Overtime to Assemble iPhone X at Foxconn
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Dear me.
They are a company that makes consumer electronics if your misguided love for them leads you to try and defend them profiting from child labour then you need to think about how that puts you across.
This is absolutely Apples problem.
lol
300k people build iPhones.
3k students were brought in as interns
SIX volunteered to do overtime and were paid for it.
Because otherwise they would not be trillion dollar company. The only reason why Apple is doing something is bad public image will cost them money, nobody cares about workers in any country. As soon as caring about workers will cost more than losses from bad image they will stop care. It's called capitalism.
Agree with posts above. Apple is a very greedy company. They work as hard to craft a good image as they do making a good product, (albeit 3 years behind everyone else.) Good thing most of their fanboys drink so much Apple Kool-Aid they can't see it, and still willingly gulp down anything apple throws at them.
The problem is these students are saying they were *required* to work at the factory by their school — and that assembling iPhones has nothing to do with what they are studying. It wasn’t voluntary.
What this sounds like is that there is a shortage of competent labor in the area, so Foxxcon is paying school officials to force their students to work there. How would you feel if you were forced to work at a plant instead of focusing on your studies and doing what you really wanted to do with your life?
Poor little Timmy, Mr. Liberal when it comes to LBGT rights, but right winger when it comes to protecting his money in off shore accounts. How convenient, Timmy.
OK you agree with all the posts about evil Apple and their outdated products. May I ask how many Apple products you currently own or have owned?
If you don’t have any Apple products why are you posting on this blog? Yes it’s a free and mostly open web site and you can state any opinion you’d like.
Six students is a small graduating class, don’t you think? Given 3k students were brought in as volunteers.
Maybe those 6 students were the ones not liked and were forced to stay so the others could have class without them... lol
The context hardly fits their story. They did what Foxconn has been attempting to prevent - overworked - and got caught in an audit designed to prevent that. Then lied about it so they wouldn’t get in trouble or risk their employment.
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What? No. Apple ants China to remain China so that they can build their product cheap. If China becomes America, then Apple will find a new China. Never for a moment believe that a corporation like Apple or similar care about another country's propsperity! Its not only for apple, it's for every other company to find cheap labor allover the world so they can have profit.
However, it's still a communist country...and no matter how modern it might get, culturally and politically this may be a norm there.
I think Apple is being a bit disingenuous here. They obviously apply enormous pressure on their suppliers to meet increasingly challenging goals—under the threat of finding alternate suppliers who can. This coercion of interns to work overtime on iPhone assembly lines allows companies like Foxconn to meet Apple's expectations, while later paying nominal fines if/when the violations are made public.
Nope, this is a problem with Apple as Foxconn is hired by Apple and Apple is Foxconn's largest customer. Apple has made promises in the past that they would ensure quality of life on the job would improve there.
60h/wk and 6d/wk = 6 10-hour days with a day off. This is what many, many people work in this country. My brother, who works in a wine store, is one of them. Calling a 60h x 6d work week slave labor or unreasonable working hours is a bit silly, imo. At one time it was laudable for someone to haul fruit through the streets all day, every day, to scrape together enough to feed the family and maybe one day open a shop. These are the hours that built this country. Now we can’t wait to punch a clock the second 40 hours is up, and complain that anything more is predatory.
The republicans will get us there in time.
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From reading your product list I think you should have used “WE” not “Their or they or them”
Modern day slavery - Good job Tim.
Tell me more about your politics.
Tell me more about your politics.
Foxconn already looking into a factory in the US. One problem, many of the components are made in China, which creates a logistics and costs problem. That import duty thing. Secondly, many in the US believe that current factory jobs are upper middle class jobs requiring little skills and education. Third, Foxconn may build a US factory, but only one that is highly automated and with highly skilled and educated workforce. Why do you think China Foxconn only hiring Students. Our workers in many parts of the country are terribly unprepared for this new world of manufacturing.
Wrong. Apple is complicit in this, and so, arguably, are we.
The truth of the matter is that some very stern statements will likely be made, and there will be some sort of audit of the factories in question... but at the end of the day, nothing will change. Nothing.
Until we learn to stop using people as de facto slaves. (And this doesn't just apply to China, my friends. There are millions of exploited American workers who are stuck under the thumb of a greedy few.)
Open your eyes, folks. Open your eyes.
