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"Workers at a Chinese factory owned by Foxconn, Apple Inc's main manufacturer, threatened to jump off the roof of a building in a protest over wages just a month after the two firms announced a landmark agreement on improving working conditions."
"Apple has joined an elite group of companies to reach a $500bn equity valuation amid expectations it is to launch a new version of the iPad next week"
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MR. DAISEY AND THE APPLE FACTORY
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A January 22, 2012 New York Times story, "The iEconomy: How US Lost Out on iPhone Work", has been getting a lot of coverage. The article makes clear that Apple and other major multinational corporations have moved production to China not only to take advantage of low wages but also to exploit a labour environment that gives maximum flexibility.
The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws.
It sounds like something out of an Isaac Asimov novel or a James Cameron film, but the parent company of iPhone maker Foxconn is working to build an “empire of robots” to replace over a million Chinese workers.
"Technology giant Apple has admitted that child labour has been employed at some of the factories that build its iPods, computers and mobile phones."
"Apple has removed and banned the game “Phone Story” from the App store, a mini game collection that exposes some of the collateral damage of creating the best selling smart phone in the market."
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“Under the shiny surface of our electronic gadgets, behind its polished interface, hides the product of a troubling supply chain that stretches across the globe,” reads Phone Story’s description on its website. “Phone Story represents this process with four educational games that make the player symbolically complicit in coltan extraction in Congo, outsourced labor in China, e-waste in Pakistan and gadget consumerism in the West.”
"Chinese environmentalists issued a report on Wednesday accusing US-based transnational Apple of breaching its own corporate responsibility standards by using suppliers that violate the law and endanger public health by discharging heavy metals and other toxins. "
"The poisoned workers at Wintek, an Apple supplier in Suzhou, China, have been awaiting a response from Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple. Regrettably, until his resignation yesterday, there has been no answer from him. The poisoned workers hope the new Apple CEO, Tim Cook, will live up to the corporate social responsibility and provide them remedies."
"Disney has launched a probe in response to accusations of abusive labor conditions in China, according to The Guardian"
As the Apple iPad launches in the UK on Friday, an investigation shared with The Daily Telegraph reveals the working conditions at Foxconn, the company in China which makes products for the world's largest technology firm.
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The hysteria at Longhua, where between 300,000 and 400,000 employees eat, work and sleep, has grown to such a pitch that workers have twisted Foxconn’s Chinese name so that it now sounds like: “Run to your Death”.
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