An investigation could reveal whether that’s the case. It seems like you’ve made up a plausible scenario and have accepted it as fact.
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Apple Taking Action After Students Worked Overtime to Assemble iPhone X at Foxconn
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An investigation could reveal whether that’s the case. It seems like you’ve made up a plausible scenario and have accepted it as fact.
Ow, don't be silly now.
They are also learning how to be cunning in running business.
They have all kinds of fake food there.
>> The students, aged 17 to 19, reportedly said they were told that a three-month stint at the factory was required "work experience" that they had to complete in order to graduate from Zhengzhou Urban Rail Transit School.
Uhh... the whole argument of why iPhone cant be built in the USA is the large unique workforce and manufacturing capabilities of the people there. So ya... a 3 month stint at Foxcomm should be tremendous work experience.
Uhh... the whole argument of why iPhone cant be built in the USA is the large unique workforce and manufacturing capabilities of the people there. So ya... a 3 month stint at Foxcomm should be tremendous work experience.
It’s a problem period. This is similar to blood diamonds just a little less serious than that. This is shameful for a company that has billions in cash and doesn’t care about basic human rights. It’s not just a China problem but Apple is equally responsible.
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Your number is a little off the mark. The wages in Asian countries can be quite low. It would take a lot more money to make an iPhone in US including all the other activities like packaging etc. Apple would probably triple the cost of the phone to maintain the same margins.
Must be somewhat of a big deal or Apple would not even comment just incase it becomes one. Or just another Apple release pretending to be responsible. Now will anything be done about it ? We will never know.
They’re not learning, they’re being exploited.
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China’s wealth has been created by enslaving and exploiting their own people.
The horror, someone worked overtime voluntarily! All of the commenters who live privileged lives playing with their $1000 iPhones, please do keep telling these poor Chinese students how much they should work. It's paternalistic to the extreme.
It's like the 21st century Chinese railroad workers only the railroads they are building is connected to information superhighway known as the Internet.
Their school forced them to work at Foxconn. We don’t know exactly what forced means - could be that many would have worked there anyway, but we’re not given a choice.
Once they worked there, apparently the overtime was voluntarily and properly paid for (something that often doesn’t happen in the USA), but wasn’t allowed for interns.
Fair enough - I just find the context to be incredibly relevant here; if it’s these 6 as the audit says, I highly doubt it’s because of lack of available hands or factory working conditions this time around. If so, the appropriate party should be punished
The school forced them to work at Foxconn, but the had to work somewhere to finish school. The school didn’t force them to work overtime. They were paid for the overtime and did it voluntarily. 18 year olds who are not students would have been allowed to do overtime. And we don’t know if this is a legal problem or just between Apple and Foxconn. So there is no reason for compensation.
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Apple didn’t get caught. Apple performed an audit and caught Foxconn.
How many people read the whole story vs just the headline ? The worst thing that happened was a policy was broken. These people were normal workers, receiving a wage and when they worked over 40 hours, they were paid overtime wages. Is this really a story ? The only way it is is because of some he-said she-said aspects of it....
Although we’re unsure if workers, especially these students have any onset or suffering depression, at least no suicides have been reported. And hopefully no more ever will occur.
Good point, I inaccurately thought that the school forced them to work overtime hours for Foxconn. Thanks
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This can't be right, if 300k workers assemble 20k iPhones it's 0.066 per head.
I think there's a zero missing here and even that is way too low, think about 1-2 iPhones per head per hour is closer to the truth.
Welcome to Deep Space Nine
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I'm sure many are aware of Apple's 1984 TV ad bringing up 1984. It's ironic that Apple is becoming the thing they were speaking out against in this ad. I've had an Apple user in my tech group mention that Apple's always been this way. They just hide it as much as they can is all.
I am pretty sure they are not even in the lowest 10, there are far worse places on this planet.
United States was always built on slavery and cheap labor anyway. Sad but true. Remember that line in Spider-Man: Homecoming? MJ didn't want to enter the Washington Monument because it was built by slaves. Well, the WM may not have been built by slaves but the White House was. Not all were slaves but they did build it. Americans built their country from the backs of immigrants.
Kill Native Americans.
Enslave Africans.
Offer the Chinese cheaper labor.
Offer the Mexicans under the table wages (aka peanuts) or threaten to deport them.
When Middle America felt a certain whitelash just "temporary" by the media (aka fake news) compared to the oppression other ethnicities felt for hundreds of years, they voted Trump to go against liberal media brainwashing. SMH.
White capitalism at its finest. American prosperity and capitalism has always depended on the backs of foreigners and cheap labor. That's why I never understood people yelling to blacks to go back to Africa or Asians to go back to China. Their ancestors were brought here.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...le-obama-correct-white-house-was-built-slave/
There was a time when USA built everything for themselves. Nomore.
Rise & Stagnation of Sony
When China-made starts to become expensive to Apple, they will have it assembled in India next. An even poorer country with over a 1B population.
Key to prosperity is to have cheap foreign labor. Been going on for hundreds of years in this country.
Kill Native Americans.
Enslave Africans.
Offer the Chinese cheaper labor.
Offer the Mexicans under the table wages (aka peanuts) or threaten to deport them.
When Middle America felt a certain whitelash just "temporary" by the media (aka fake news) compared to the oppression other ethnicities felt for hundreds of years, they voted Trump to go against liberal media brainwashing. SMH.
White capitalism at its finest. American prosperity and capitalism has always depended on the backs of foreigners and cheap labor. That's why I never understood people yelling to blacks to go back to Africa or Asians to go back to China. Their ancestors were brought here.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...le-obama-correct-white-house-was-built-slave/
There was a time when USA built everything for themselves. Nomore.
Rise & Stagnation of Sony
When China-made starts to become expensive to Apple, they will have it assembled in India next. An even poorer country with over a 1B population.
Key to prosperity is to have cheap foreign labor. Been going on for hundreds of years in this country.
I wonder if the members of Falun Gong or Tibetans agree with you.