Ask Slashdot: Any Smart Phones Made Under Worker-Friendly Conditions?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday March 20, 2012 @01:50AM from the ethics-vs-aesthetics dept.

New submitter unimacs writes "So Apple has been under fire recently for the conditions at the factories of their Chinese suppliers. I listened to 'This American Life's' recent retraction of the Michael Daisey piece they did a while back. Great radio for those of you who haven't heard it — rarely has dead air been used to such effect. Anyway, while his work has been discredited, Michael Daisey wasn't inaccurate in his claims that working conditions are poor in iPhone and iPad factories. Given that, are there any smart phone manufacturers whose phones are made under better conditions?"

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Short answer... by MonkeyBot · 2012-03-20 01:53 · Score: 5, Informative

No.
Nokia fired 4000 last month by vlm · 2012-03-20 01:57 · Score: 5, Informative

Nokia fired 4000 smart phone assemblers in Finland, Hungary and Mexico last month, moving to Asia. Theres a press release from around feb 8th.
This /. article is probably a response, however indirect, to that.

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