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Apple's New iPhone Built With Illegal Overtime Teen Labor (bloomberg.com)
Apple's main supplier in Asia has been employing high-school students working illegal overtime to assemble the iPhone X in an effort to catch up with demand after facing production delays, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing several teenagers involved. From a report: A group of 3,000 students from the Zhengzhou Urban Rail Transit School were sent to work at the local facility run by Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry, known as Foxconn, as part of a three-month stint that was billed as "work experience," and required to graduate, the Financial Times reported. Six of the students told the FT they routinely worked 11-hour days assembling Apple's flagship smartphone, which constitutes illegal overtime for student interns under Chinese law. Apple said an audit did find instances of student interns working overtime, adding that they were employed voluntarily, were compensated and provided benefits, but that they shouldn't have been allowed to work overtime.
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It doesn't qualify you for membership if you post AC. Nice try, loser.
That could very well not be true.
However, if it was voluntary, then I see no reason why they should have the government tell them that they can't make more money if they don't wanted to. Their body, their choice.
Okay, Foxconn, had a rep for inhumane human labor practices, including making people stand for 12 hours assembling iphones. Foxconn doesn't change it's stripes because of a little embarrassment, and Apple know it. Much like the Gap, Joe Fresh, Blue Navy (owned by the Gap), continue to use manufacturers that quietly hire child labor no matter how many times similar scandals come up. If Apple really cared, they would stop using Foxconn whose reputation for what we consider basic human decency let alone laws relating to it, is very poor. If WE really cared about any of these issues, we would stop buying iphones (we can always get used ones if it MUST be an iphone), or better yet get a phone with an open source android derivative (Replicant, Cyanogen, LinageOS), but as people with eager faces prepare to sign either a free phone for a 3 year contract or plot $700 USD for the newest iphone, it seems pretty clear where our priorities are. And no matter how many times we see stories like this, we'll keep buying iphones. So Apple will keep using Foxconnm, who will repeat profitable inhuman labor practices.
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made in red china now if they need an unlock on some phone how fast will get done?? faster then it takes to file paper work to fight the FBI in court?
But can it run Crysis?
the definition of 'voluntary'. It's no longer voluntary if you've set up a society where you have no other viable options. This is why we don't let people sell themselves into slavery. Because if you're at the point where you're selling yourself into slavery then you're no longer at the point where anything is truly voluntary.
Said it before, I'll say it again, you're not a free man (or woman) so long as somebody else controls your access to food, shelter and medicine. Until then you're one step away from being made to do whatever the person in charge of those things wants.
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[...] as part of a three-month stint that was billed as "work experience," and required to graduate [...] Six of the students told the FT they routinely worked 11-hour days assembling Apple's flagship smartphone, which constitutes illegal overtime for student interns under Chinese law.
If you think that's bad, come over to the U.S. and do 12-hour days.
in high school, I have no sympathy for them. Things are tough all over. Plus, I bet most of them need the money like I did.
Who really believes that this isn't the case for all smart phones, of all brands? Come on, let's not be too naive. This is the sad truth of the tech world.
what will happen in scott walker's non union WI!
When the new plant opens?? at least they will the have brat stop and mars cheese castle to pay give free stuff to help you on your 12 hour shift.
Hah, I lived in Zhengzhou for a year. What a dump, even by Chinese standards. Fun fact: Henan (the province ZZ is in) is the AIDs capital in China because they had a vaccine program and the morons didn't change out the needles regularly because of some ancient superstition. Now, Luoyang. That's a beautiful city, and somewhere I want to get back to someday.
Do you think your Wu Tang style can defeat me?
This is hardly news anymore. At a certain point we either start demanding parity in how workers are treated or just admit that an iPhone is more important. For a lot of folks for whom the iPhone gets them access to a robust social network (in the form of iMessage) the answer is the latter.
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that assembled previous versions as grade schoolers?
I giggle when I see posts list this as you see so many people who act like they give a damn use/sponsor IPhone or other apple products. knowing the conditions they are built in and the use of child labor.... I don't really care, just dont act holier than thou
A few teens worked overtime on Apple phones - meanwhile on Android phone assemblers were literally abused and child labor is routine instead of irregular.
But who cares right, because Not Apple.
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If that Felix guy got practically into orbit with balloons and that juts sounds easier, safer, and cheaper, then why doesn't this guy use them? Whatever, I hope he dies.
$1k phone
Of course Apple has to keep those 2000% profit margins...
Corporatism != Free Market
So, these students are "generation X"?
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Well as long as Apple is ok with it, then the rest of us should be too. Right? Now go run and pick up that new iphone.
It's been a while since we've seen one of these stories and it appears that some new and refined rationalizations have developed. New entries checked at the end of the list. Props to scourfish, cdreimer, zippo01, SuperKendall and several ACs for your contributions.
Apple/Foxconn worker and environmental exploitation rationalization worksheet
Check all that apply
[_] Making iPhones in a Chinese factory is better than being a Chinese peasant
[_] iPhones/Pads would cost too much if I had to pay my fellow citizens to make them
[_] iPhones/Pads would cost too much given environmental regulations I vehemently insist on for myself
[_] All the other manufacturers are doing it too
[_] Some/Many/Most Chinese workers appreciate 70 hour weeks and breathing my aluminum dust
[_] It's not Apple, it's Foxconn
[_] It's not Apple, it's the Chinese government
[_] They should quit if they don't like it
[_] It's just capitalism at work
[_] It's just communism at work
[_] Apple's disposable workers are paid better than non-Apple disposable workers
[_] Apple's auditors didn't find any serious issues
[_] Some day the Chinese will be too wealthy to exploit
[_] Your Android is Foxconn too
[_] You're an Apple hater using Apple as a scapegoat
[_] I also work 60/80/100/120 hour weeks at my IT job
[_] Apple designers are in the US
[_] The US did the same thing to the British
[_] The US had slaves once too
[_] The US has prison labor today
[_] It's up to the Chinese to stand up to their oppressive government
[_] There are lines of eager workers outside Foxconn factories
[_] If any company were to stop the exploitation, I really think it'll be Apple
[_] Your free Linux runs on Chinese hardware too
[_] Foxconn workers think they have it great, so it's ok!
[_] Foxconn worker suicide rate is lower than Chicago's murder rate
[_] Foxconn worker suicide rate is lower than China's suicide rate
[_] We can't pollute the whole world!
[_] Half of all US households have an Apple product
[_] If we don't exploit them they'll never develop
[_] The suicide's families get the insurance money
[_] You're posting from a macbook/iphone/ipad right now
[_] There are suicide nets on American bridges
[_] Interns in the US don't get paid
[_] They don't beat the workers, apparently.
[_] Why is this news? We expect this from China.
[_] It's their country; we have no right to judge.
[X] If it's voluntary it's ok; their body, their choice.
[X] Only 11 hours/day? Come over to the U.S. and do 12-hour days!
[X] Things are tough all over; I had a job in high school.
[X] Isn't this the case for all smart phones, of all brands?
[X] Android phone assemblers were abused worse
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There was an article discussing the mandatory overtime and sometimes low pay for these mega factories. I am not at all surprised things haven't changed.
https://www.wired.com/2010/11/thomas-lee-foxconn/all/1/?viewall=true
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I guess this is what Tim Cook meant about conquering the Chinese education market. To the victor go the spoils but surely there are UN conventions about child labour in POW camps.
Although hopefully these Chinese students are learning to Think Different and that this will be the generation of young people that finally overthrows the one party state of their great grandparents, tired of being worker slaves for tax-avoiding California-based multinationals.
With Trump promising to bring home manufacturing, high school students across the USA will be demanding equal opportunity. Every child will get a free iPhone as part of their education, provided they do the appropriate number of shifts at their local Apple Inc factory.
"A group of 3,000 students from the Zhengzhou Urban Rail Transit School were sent to work at the local facility run by Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry, known as Foxconn, as part of a three-month stint that was billed as "work experience," and required to graduate"
How is that voluntary? In that they volunteer to have the desire to graduate high school?
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If they are required to do that work in order to graduate, how exactly is it voluntary?
They keep using that word, but I do not think it means what they think it means.
How's that for a clickbait-y title, folks?
Presenteeism ftw. I am 38 years old and do the same fucking stupid shit as I did 16 years ago. I get paid more, for absolutely no reason, as I fully expect younger people to have more energy and motivation, as well as the copious spare time to learn this week's popular brand of bullshit tech.
The headline says illegal labor. According to Chinese law there was nothing illegal about the labor they used. The labor Foxcon used was against Apple's policies.
Or do you want to pay $2000?
if it was Elon Musk whipping them to make government subsidized vehicles the media would be applauding him for instilling work ethic. They're not Apple and employees and Apple's due diligence does have a point of demarcation. The story is as slanted as the eyes of these kids.
that treated workers just fine (and with the sorts of protections we expect American workers to have). They only did it because they thought being able to have a phone to market 6 months sooner (because no ocean shipping) was worth it. When those benefits didn't materialize they moved right back to China. But at no time where they ever unprofitable due to high labor costs. The labor barely factored in. But why leave money on the table when you don't have to. Indeed, if you do your shareholders will oust you first chance they get. Or else you'll get Bained in a leveraged buyout when somebody notices the money left on the table and gets a loan from the bank to buy your company out in a hostile takeover.
The world works the way it does because we let it. We let it because we're greedy, short sighted and lack worker solidarity. It's got nothing to do with actual economics and everything to do with people being generally awful.
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When you buy Apple products, please stop to consider the exploited masses being preyed on by Apple. When you claim to want a living wage for workers and claim you don't mind paying extra in defense of increasing labor costs, then you are a hypocrite if you continue to buy Apple products. /sincerely, Android user
It should read
"Apple does what it does every time there is a new model of iphone released"
...what has slowly screwed America over. American companies that outsource to other countries to make larger profits because those countries have no ethical values. The American government needs to charge an "Outsource Tax" that is just a smidgen higher than it would cost Apple to higher skilled workers here in the US to make their phones. Fuckin' socialist asshats need their clocks cleaned!
It's interesting that you think he was defending Apple instead of simply pointing out you are a bunch of fucking hypocrites.
Where is your post complaining about Android assembly practices which are, by any measure, worse?
And yet you and others harp on Apple while using products made with far less accountability. If you all actually cared you'd all be using Apple stuff because at least they try - but obviously you are not. Therefore you do not really care about child labor issues; you just hate Apple. Fair enough but why do you have to fuck over children in the process, you heartless monster?
Because keeping all creimer-related posts deeply nested is important:
1) It reduced the amount of clutter your two measley -1 posts a day can generate for the 98% of slashdot users who never want to see you again and don't care to troll or laugh at you
2) It practically guarantees that anyone down here is one of your trolls or you. This strips you of your ability to sockpuppet AC
The only thing anyone will ever see is maybe your first -1 post and if they see that they'll see a few ACs reminding everyone that you think marrying underage girls is about getting the most for your retirement dollar. Nobody but you, me, and lilly ever sees what goes on down here fatty.
at least they will the have brat stop and mars cheese castle to pay give free stuff to help you on your 12 hour shift.
What that hell happened to that sentence? Did you mean to type, "Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all"?
Where's the 'All of the above' check box?
Apple does audits and puts policies in place to fix this. Most organization call this continuous improvement and it only happens in an environment of transparency. Apple should get kudos for getting on this first. Their track record will never be perfect, but what is important is that they care enough to try to make things better.
Just wait maybe a few years more to see how robots end these problems, for better or worse.
"You don't consider keeping every comment by creimer at -1"
Huh? *YOU* managed that all by yourself by being an obnoxious, unlikable PEST at every turn.
" and then shitposting 25+ comments for every comment"
Your entire posting history here is one long bowel movement, Chris.
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Stalking? Really?
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