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Chinese Supplier Gets Dumped By Apple For Fraudulently Using Underage Labor
jones_supa writes "Another report from Apple regarding Chinese labor practices surfaces. After conducting its 2011 audits to 339 sites, the company found that cases of underage labor had jumped from 6 to 74 in one year. It was concentrated in a single circuit board manufacturer, which Apple says was willfully conspiring with families to forge age-verification documents. According to a new report, Apple didn't find any cases of underage workers at its final assembly suppliers in 2012, but it plans to continue going deeper into the supply chain to ferret out violators. We are talking about Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics Co., with which Apple has now terminated its relationship."
I'm assuming the families of these kids put them to work out of necessity, so what happens to these kids and their families now?
Most likely they starve. But at least they'll die happy in the knowledge that they're not being exploited by evil capitalists, and so long as they don't get on TV while they're dying, rich Westerners will tell each other how wonderful it is that they're preventing evil capitalist exploitation.