My mobo is Foxconn.
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| Author: | pcernie [ Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:52 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Apple finds 91 children working at supplier factories |
Apple has found 91 children working at its supplier factories. The iPhone-maker reported the findings in its supplier responsibility report, after undertaking 127 audits of factories in 2010. Out of those 127, Apple said it found nine Chinese factories with 49 workers who were under 16, the local minimum working age. A tenth factory, also in China, had employed 42 children under 16. "We determined management had chosen to overlook the issue and was not committed to addressing the problem," Apple said in the report. Apple's supplier report Of the 127 factories audited: - 60% had workers doing more than the 60-hour a week limit - 64% didn't have clear emergency exits - 63% didn't store hazardous chemicals properly Apple had the supplier company send the young workers back to school, and then stopped doing business with it. "Based on the poor likelihood of improvement, we terminated business with the facility," the report said, adding that it reported a school that helped recruit the children to the Chinese Government. The report also highlighted 18 factories that charged excessive fees to recruit foreign workers, leaving them essentially in debt to their employer - which the firm calls "involuntary labour". Apple said it has forced the suppliers to pay back $3.4 million in such fees since 2008. Toxic conditions Furthermore, Apple revealed 137 workers at a Wintek factory were poisoned by a chemical called n-hexane, which was used to clean device screens. The chemical has since been removed from use. While actually publishing such a report is unusual, critics noted that Apple didn't reveal the names of the suppliers causing trouble - despite the likelihood that those factories are still being used by other tech firms. "I regard this report as a means of image-building rather than ensuring compliance with labour rights," Debby Chan of Hong Kong's Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour campaign, told The Guardian. Foxconn "saved lives" Last year, a spate of suicides at the Shenzhen-based Foxconn factory drew attention to working conditions at the Apple supplier. To find out more, Apple sent a team including COO Tim Cook in June, surveying 1,000 employees and investigating the suicides. The resulting report praised Foxconn for hiring counsellors, creating a 24-hour help centre, and installing "large nets" to catch "impulsive suicides". "Most important, the investigation found that Foxconn's response had definitely saved lives," Apple's report claimed. http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/365290/appl ... -factories 'Quick, spin it!' |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Apple finds 91 children working at supplier factories |
According to Wikipedia, Foxconn also make things for Dell, HP, Microsoft, Intel, Cisco, Nintendo, Nokia and Sony. So they are all at least as culpable as Jobs & Co is. But hey, why let things like reasoned analysis stand in the way of a bit of Apple-kicking for fun & profit. Jon |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Apple finds 91 children working at supplier factories |
My mobo is Foxconn.
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| Author: | adidan [ Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:26 pm ] | |||||||||
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Be fair, some of those components are too fiddly for fat fingers.  We may all kick up a verbal fuss but does it stop us buying? No. |
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:38 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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The problem is, as a consumer, it's very hard to determine if what you are buying is ethically sourced. TBH for the price Apple charge for the iPhone, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was made by well remunerated, adult employees. Until consumers are given the information about how their products are made - not to mention a true indication of where's it's manufactured (no, "assembled in the European Union" will not suffice, and is highly misleading anyway) then they will unwittingly buy things which have been manufactured unethically. |
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| Author: | ChurchCat [ Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:45 pm ] | |||||||||
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Why was it down to Apple to find this out? Surely there humanitarian organisations that are not half a planet away that should be all over this. Thank God Apple cares enough to investigate. So, how did I do? Was that spinny enough? 
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Apple finds 91 children working at supplier factories |
It's good that Apple actually check on this sort of thing. Many companies don't. |
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| Author: | ChurchCat [ Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:47 pm ] | |||||||||
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<spin> According to the report 40% of the companies audited had never been audited before by any other tech company. Apple are leading the way in trying to improve worker conditions. Sure they could do more, but it seems that at the moment they are doing far more than anyone else. </spin> |
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