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RE: Why all the Chinese bashing? I recall (okay, not a few years, now…)

Posted by jea48 (A) on October 27, 2014 at 21:13:04

In Reply to: Why all the Chinese bashing? I recall (okay, not a few years, now…) posted by tinear on October 27, 2014 at 12:26:01:

Apple - the world's most valuable technology company - have faced claims that their contractors are forcing staff to do overtime involuntarily and employing underage workers at the factory.
It was in response to these attacks that Apple threw open their doors at the Foxconn City plant in Shenzhen, China.
Foxconn City is a unit of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Company which employs up to 1.1million people in a series of huge factory complexes in China.
Liang Juan, 26, told ABC News that management is 'strict'.
Wearing a white boiler-suit in the spotless factory, it is her job to flip over camera lenses with a tiny pair of tweezers.
Asked what she thinks about when performing the dull task, she said: 'I don't think much about other things because the management is strict and we're busy working and have no time to think about other things.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2103798/Revealed-Inside-Apples-Chinese-sweatshop-factory-workers-paid-just-1-12-hour.html

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Workers are asked to stand for 12-hour shifts with just two 30-minute breaks, six days a week, the non-profit organisation China Labor Watch has claimed. Staff are allegedly working without adequate protective equipment, at risk from chemicals, noise and lasers, for an average of 69 hours a week. Apple has a self-imposed limit of 60 working hours a week.

The problems were uncovered at a plant in Wuxi, near Shanghai, where Apple's first low-cost handset, dubbed the iPhone 5C, is being produced. The plant is owned by Florida-based Jabil Circuit, a US company with 60 plants in 33 countries including Scotland, and a turnover of $17bn (£11bn) a year. Jabil said it had uncovered problems last month and was taking immediate steps to investigate the allegations. Apple said its experts were "already on site" to look into the claims.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/sep/05/workers-rights-flouted-apple-iphone-plant

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Imagine yourself working where the conditions are so bad that you would rather commit suicide by jumping off of a roof than enduring one more day of long hours without a break, grueling deadlines, and abusive management. This is the daily reality for thousands of employees who have to cope with survival in Apple’s China-based factories that make many of their gadgets.

In 2010, 18 workers jumped to their death off of Apple sweatshop roofs. But instead of improving working conditions, factory owners installed suicide nets around the building to catch jumpers – so they can’t commit suicide while on the clock. (See image on right)

While many of us eagerly await Apple’s next generation iPhone or MacBook, Apple conveniently hides these reprehensible working conditions on the other side of the planet. The tech giant’s glaring and shocking lack of social responsibility plays an oppressive role in the lives of those workers who hustle to make their products. It’s tantamount to slave labor.

Suicide netting at Apple’s factories is just the tip of the iceberg. China Labor Watch has been monitoring Apple sweatshop conditions since 2000. An incident occurred in 2010 when 137 workers were injured after being forced to use a poisonous chemical to clean iPhone screens. And in 2011, two explosions within a couple of months of each other killed four and injured 77 people. (1)

http://consumercal.org/why-are-we-supporting-apples-sweatshops/

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Some workers were directly exposed to toxic metal-cutting fluids used in the production of iPad casings and Apple keyboards. "After a period of time, this causes workers' skin to itch, swell, and peel. CLW's investigator himself suffered these side effects," stated the report.

And the company's unsafe practices isn't limited to its own facilities. Catcher pours "industrial fluids and waste into groundwater and nearby rivers," stated CLW and Green America.

The Catcher Suqian factory supplies Apple with metal iPad covers and parts for the fifth-generation iPhone, according to the advocacy groups. As the investigation unfolded, 500 to 600 workers were moved to a "sister location in Taizhou to work on the iPhone 6."

In addition to safety violations, Catcher is accused of subjecting employees to forced overtime and excessive work hours. Student workers, ranging from 16 to 18 years of age, work the same jobs as adults and clock in 10-plus-hour days.

Catcher is also behind on the payroll. The company owes "an estimated 6 hours of unpaid overtime per worker per month," or $290,000.

Nothing has changed since a similar investigation conducted in 2013 unearthed many of the same conditions, CLW Executive Director Li Qiang said. "Last year, CLW shared our investigative results with Apple, and the company said that it would correct the safety and labor rights violations at Catcher. This time, we are making our findings public, in an effort to reduce the exploitation of Chinese workers making Apple's products."

http://www.eweek.com/it-management/apple-supplier-blasted-for-dangerous-working-conditions-in-china.html

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Globalization bringing you cheaper priced products.

China is a communist country with missiles with nuclear warheads aimed at the US.

China is now the largest economy in the world.

China will become the largest military power in the world as the US continues to decline.

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Edits: 10/27/14

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