Maybe Foxconn is in violation, but IT'S A PRC vs FOXCONN problem, not an Apple problem.
That's just the legal dimension. Then there's ethics, human rights and public relations concerns as well. Apple has an acceptable minimum code of ethics concerning human rights that suppliers agree to abide by as a condition of becoming a supplier. If they don't like the code of ethics, then other manufacturers can take their place. I'm glad that Apple does have those standards.
1. "military style drills" are very similar to what most U.K. and U.S. people experienced as calisthenic exercises while attending their secondary school's physical education classes. Are the employees compelled or shamed into participating? Well, that hasn't been addressed by the article. (I think a lot of lazy, overweight, car-commuting Yanks and Brits should be compelled to do similar exercises so as to keep health costs down!)
2. Outsiders are not allowed into the dormitories, and goodness for that. If you lived in an open style dorm, would you want the dorm to have open access for anyone to walk in and rummage through your stuff? BTW, Walmart's night-time employees are LOCKED IN to their work premises, just so that mega profit corporation doesn't have to pay for night supervisors! Is Apple going to send a team to check on that? Oh, no. We already know that behavior conforms to state labor laws for some fantastic reason.
3. There are many issues to Chinese labor conditions, but the most compelling is the guilt many iPod purchasers and Apple fans have when they realize that their current consumerist lifestyle is an anomaly in the history of mankind. Reports of Chinese labor conditions force them to be aware of the realities in which the majority of humanity manages to survive.
Globalization is an educator, when we allow the light to shine in.
Looks like the Creative + Mail combination didn't work as well as the Nike+iPod one is supposed to.
Not defending Foxconn here but what even says those pictures, are current, real, of the same factory, or even in china?
I can say anything I want too.
"Apple contractor Foxconn is also known to be using illegal cutting edge technology and is harvesting Stem Cells from small children for use in the latest iPod revision.
An insider recently visted the factory and watched as a Mother had her unborn child ripped from her womb.
The Stem Cells were then harvested for the iPods.
After extraction the Stem Cells were inserted into a robot iPod to supply it with life.
After leaving work for the day an employee could be seen crying outside the factory walls, guilty over what he had done."
See? It's easy. If this iPod thing were really true or insane all media outlets would be jumping all over it, not just a random publication like the mail.
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Originally posted by Chucker
Oh, so you can knock at the door of, say, Adobe's headquarters and they'll just let you in?
Does Adobe require anyone to sleep on company grounds in Adobe housing?
Originally posted by BuzDots
Maybe Foxconn is in violation, but IT'S A PRC vs FOXCONN problem, not an Apple problem.
That's just the legal dimension. Then there's ethics, human rights and public relations concerns as well. Apple has an acceptable minimum code of ethics concerning human rights that suppliers agree to abide by as a condition of becoming a supplier. If they don't like the code of ethics, then other manufacturers can take their place. I'm glad that Apple does have those standards.
2. Outsiders are not allowed into the dormitories, and goodness for that. If you lived in an open style dorm, would you want the dorm to have open access for anyone to walk in and rummage through your stuff? BTW, Walmart's night-time employees are LOCKED IN to their work premises, just so that mega profit corporation doesn't have to pay for night supervisors! Is Apple going to send a team to check on that? Oh, no. We already know that behavior conforms to state labor laws for some fantastic reason.
3. There are many issues to Chinese labor conditions, but the most compelling is the guilt many iPod purchasers and Apple fans have when they realize that their current consumerist lifestyle is an anomaly in the history of mankind. Reports of Chinese labor conditions force them to be aware of the realities in which the majority of humanity manages to survive.
Globalization is an educator, when we allow the light to shine in.
Originally posted by JeffDM
Does Adobe require anyone to sleep on company grounds in Adobe housing?
Many tech companies supply a cot to their programmers, and they are expected to use it as necessary, if they want to keep their jobs.
The news article was entirely too fact-free to be making sweeping judgments.
Not defending Foxconn here but what even says those pictures, are current, real, of the same factory, or even in china?
I can say anything I want too.
"Apple contractor Foxconn is also known to be using illegal cutting edge technology and is harvesting Stem Cells from small children for use in the latest iPod revision.
An insider recently visted the factory and watched as a Mother had her unborn child ripped from her womb.
The Stem Cells were then harvested for the iPods.
After extraction the Stem Cells were inserted into a robot iPod to supply it with life.
After leaving work for the day an employee could be seen crying outside the factory walls, guilty over what he had done."
See? It's easy. If this iPod thing were really true or insane all media outlets would be jumping all over it, not just a random publication like the mail.