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."

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Steve must be spinning in his grave.

[bistromath007]

I mean, he'd probably just say "excellent, give 'em all fuckin' lollipops."

America, see your conservative future

[fascismforthepeople]

Right now the Americans see themselves on a moral high ground for opposing child labor. Currently, that is one of few labor laws that means anything. However there are plenty of politicians - slashdot idol ron paul amongst them - who would like to overturn those laws as well. In the name of "liberty" they want to remove "market restrictions" to "grow industry". This will, of course, only reduce the wages across the board for working class people while making companies more profitable and increasing executive compensation. They also want to increase the rights of the wealthy and reduce those of the poor. While some conservatives claim they want to stop the "class warfare", this pushes it to a terrible conclusion.

In other words, under the guise of liberty - but with the true goal of profit - some people aspire to bring fascism for the people.

Re:it's the children that suffer

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Your argument that removing children from the labor pool aids workers because it raises wages and reduces labor supply would apply without limit to the adult working population as well. Removing women from the labor pool, removing half of all men from the labor pool, reducing everyone but a few from the labor pool, would follow the same argument that this benefits the workers.

2. You argue that workers benefit if they maximize the slice of industrial prosperity that accrues to them. In that case, who is going to invest in new factories? Because I am pretty sure that was how factory owners spent much of their wealth. Or are you saying that new factories are not beneficial to workers?