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Apple Investigates Claim That Illegal Student Labor Was Used To Assemble Apple Watch (bgr.com)
Apple is currently investigating a report that Apple Watch supplier Quanta Computer relied upon illegally employed students to help manufacture the company's exceedingly popular wearable. "Originally brought to light by The Financial Times, the report details how dozens of students were ostensibly working as interns, but in reality were working assembly line shifts, often throughout the night. Some students even reported working six days a week in 12-hour shifts," reports BGR. From the report: The allegations stem from a report put together by SACOM, a workers rights group based out of Hong Kong. In compiling its report, SACOM notes that it interviewed upwards of 28 students. The FT report reads in part: "The alleged abuses echo the labour violations uncovered last year in Apple's iPhone supply chain at its Foxconn Zhengzhou factory, where both Apple and Foxconn acknowledged that student interns had illegally worked overtime. The two companies said at the time that they would end the practice of student interns working extra hours." In a statement on the matter, Apple said that it is "urgently" looking into the aforementioned claims and that they have a "zero tolerance" policy for companies who try to skirt around Apple's workplace guidelines.
Internship as part of a high school or tech school degree is a form of slavey.
Assembling an apple watch has zero educational value. Apple is responsible for this
Didn't they already do this? https://www.bbc.com/news/busin...
Yes that was happening before, as the very summary of the article said. So Foxconn said they had stopped it, but this report shows perhaps it was not stopped after all.
Which is also what the summary said.
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If they is serious about preventing worker's abuse, they need to hire a full-time monitors for every manufacturing partners. Of course those monitors can be bribed by the manufacturers but that can be minimized by rotating them in and out and having multiple of them per site. They can pull double duty by monitoring the QC of the production lines.
relied upon illegally employed students to help manufacture the company's exceedingly popular wearable.
I'm sure Apple is devastated...
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You think they don't know? They could care less what happens at their factories in Taiwan, China, India, etc. They don't want to know. If it comes out in the media they have to suck it up and act surprised, it's just the cost of doing business to them.
Then again, as a lot of documentaries show, if pants or shirts cost under a certain amount of money, odds are very, very high that it was with exploited labor. Does anybody buying at the stores care in first world countries? Not really.
I watched one of those leaked clips from a Nike owned factory and the Indian factory owner was explaining that if an order is late even by one day they don't even get paid. He shrugged and said "that's why we have to work fast. It's just the way it is."
There was another large clothing company (I forgot the name) with a factory in the Philippines. In fact, only employees there over 3 years got paid money. The rest were only "paid" subsistence via meals and dorm-like housing. So if they wanted the means to eat and sleep, they had to work, but it was impossible to actually get any money.
Nothing will ever change unless enough people change something.
Internship as part of a high school or tech school degree is a form of slavey. Assembling an apple watch has zero educational value.
Actually the communist party leaders says it is educational, educational to the degree that it is a required component of education for some. In particular for college students who are on a track to be managers or leaders or some sort. These communist party leaders argue that these future managers and leaders must understand the worker's perspective from their own first hand experience. A requirement of spending time on a farm or in a factory is not unheard of in communist china.
I thought communism was supposed to be pro-worker.
The article mentioned the students were doing work not even in their fields. Third party or not, Apple outsourced it.
If Apple is so concerned about slave labor, rather than having this keep coming up year after year..
they could you know..just make the watches here in America..
like they used to with Macs and Apples years ago..
Just saying..
they have a "zero tolerance" policy for companies who try to skirt around Apple's workplace guidelines.
Maybe they'd have more success if they renamed that to 'mandatory workplace requirements'.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
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they'd probably stop complaining about foxconn. 12 hours for 6 days, is better than having two jobs which is what a lot of Americans have. they are interns... do you have any idea what Internship is used for in America? and this thing about the "assembly line" being so horrible - compare it to working fast food in the US or working as a Nurse or whatever. Or god forbid you examine working conditions on farms in the US. there are many many jobs in America that are much much worse than these high tech Chinese factories, which is why Chinese people fight like hell to get jobs in them. A lot of Americans just have a delusional view of what work is like in the US, and act like somehow this stuff in China is a horror show - no, it's not. open your eyes around you. you can find worse conditions in your own city, and your local paper has likely never done a story on them.
if this is true it will endanger Apple's reputation even though he is not the one who does it
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Um, the slave labor is the exact reason so many American tech firms moved production to China. I was working in a computer company in the mid 1980s when a guy brought in a man from China to see our CEO. The guy who brought in the Chinese man told my then boss how great his move to production had gone - every morning the Chinese military brought the workers to the factory and every evening took them back out, checking each worker for stolen items. He had the right number of workers every day and they all worked very hard to avoid being punished, and they were extremely cheap. My boss at the time was a US military vet and was repulsed, so he did not do any deals to move anything to China, though years later he had to close down in the face of all the competition from companies that did make the move.
Back when Apple shifted production to China, there was NO advanced tech in China to justify the move - the slave labor was the only rational reason to move the work. It's a complete lie for them now to pretend to be shocked by ANY sub-standard labor conditions in China - since when they originally moved there the conditions were so rotten and evil.
If their supplier used illegal student labor to save money, Apple will demand their cut. Hence the investigation. No more complicated than that.
If Apple is so concerned about slave labor, rather than having this keep coming up year after year..
they could you know..just make the watches here in America..
like they used to with Macs and Apples years ago..
Just saying..
If they do it will be a highly automated factory with relatively few positions for humans and those will require a degree of education that is no longer available in large portions of the US after a couple of decades of US public school systems having been systematically disassembled by the Republicans and replaced with either crappy overpriced privates schools or nothing. If you have been home schooled by a bunch of people who think god created the world 6000 years ago, that Adam and Eve rode to church in the garden of Eden on the backs of dinosaurs and that the problem of computers overheating can be solved by repealing the laws of thermodynamics, jobs in high tech are hard to come by.
Apple Commie phones are build by red china.
Let me guess, not guilty!
Apple uses the same sort of factories that make other electronics. Most of those factories at one time or another have been exposed to having violated labor requirements. Its how stuff gets made in places like China. Not sure it bothers people that much other then real news people expose it and makes the respective company selling the product investigate the claims.
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Come on then, what are these lies and what will the consequences be? I am genuinely interested.
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I'm just curious where the consequences fall on the consequence spectrum - are we talking a 5-minute time out with the phone taken away; or being put up against the wall 1950s communist purge style?
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That was before our elites collectively agreed to fuck us over and put an end to our good lives. NAFTA was the nail in the coffin of the American working class and it passed not under a Republican but under Bill Clinton and the Democrats. The Democrats also passed the harsh laws that put millions of working class in prison for ticky-tack offenses. They were all set to pass the TPP which would have been even worse until Trump threw a monkey wrench in their plans.
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If Apple had its way these stories would get squyashed. They are trying to look noble, it's a bunch of BS. ALL corporations would do it if they knew they wouldn't get caught so your a fool if you really believe Apple is a saint!
Shockingly, the pushers behind such laws are less those concerned for students than labor unions not liking it cutting into their work.
If they did, people would stop buying this stuff. Nope, the commie government, has approximately 1.5 BILLION "cheerful" workers to exploit one way or another. And those workers, when shown in the print & television media will have SMILES on their faces, with brand new clean uniforms. Nope, they won't be shown in their "living conditions", which are basically a prison dorm, where the money you make, goes toward your room & board, to the point you are pretty much a slave to the shop you work for. Gotta keep churning out all that Chinese made electronics so people world wide can stand in line for a new one every few months.
Tim has been a leading light in liberal causes.
Are you putting your money where your mouth is?
Are you paying these people the $15/hr you are advocating?
Or are you using unpaid interns to pad your own bank account?
I thought that's how all Apple products were made nowadays.
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