Chinese Students Say They Are Being Forced To Build Your Next iPhone

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 6, 2012 @10:32AM from the after-school-job dept.

pigrabbitbear writes "Now that Apple is putting the finishing touches on the most anticipated smartphone in history, Chinese students are again being pressed into service on the factory line inside the largest single internship program in the world. This according to two separate stories in the Chinese press. A report today in the Shanghai Daily says that hundreds of students in the city of Huai'an were forced to help fulfill iPhone 5 orders starting last Thursday. Classes in town had allegedly been interrupted as a result, since the two-month long internships would fulfill the students' need to 'experience working conditions.'"

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Re:Yes, because we all know that by Revotron · 2012-09-06 11:10 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Totally loving the -1, Disagree moderating as well. Middle school must be out for the day.
Re:Foxconn is better than living in Europe by vlueboy · 2012-09-06 15:18 · Score: 1, Flamebait

How is gluing the back panel on an iphone every 23.5 seconds for 12 hours straight for free learning 'valuable work skills' for the students?
How is being paid to get training in navigation, leadership, command and control, electronics, aeronautics, piloting, shooting, logistics, survival, physics, linguistics, chemistry, and hundreds of other disciplines based on your position in horribly well funded first world militaries WORSE than working for Foxconn in China?
The one aims to entertain.
The other? to destroy.
QED.