It’s not just Apple. These conditions are not unusual in overseas factories…
This is the type of environment most U.S companies actually accept, if not encourage to get cheap labor overseas. At least until they get caught and the media publicizes it….
These practices would not be tolerated in the US- and should not be tolerated anywhere.
There is a price to pay for the large Corporate profits we are seeing. It’s being paid here with loss of jobs and overseas with intolerable job conditions.
It’s just wrong…
Oh, and even more evidence John McCain is either senile, uninformed, stupid or intentionally misleading people. Take your pick…
Back in March, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) astoundingly claimed that the iPad and iPhone are “built in the United States of America.” This news must have been a great surprise to the Chinese workers who work for Taiwanese-based manufacturing giant Foxconn, which is notorious for the poor conditions at its factories and the wave of suicides at its plants.
After much of the international media covered the abuses at Foxconn’s factories, the company, along with the major American corporations it supplies — like Apple and HP — announced that it would be reforming its practices.
Yet a new report from Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM), a Hong Kong-based advocacy and research group, finds that many of the practices that led more than a dozen workers committ suicide continue to live on. SACOM conducted a comprehensive study of practices at several Foxconn factories over the months of March and April and found that a number of shocking policies are in place. Here are some of the highlights of their study:
Lost in the 21st Century 