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June 28th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
China Labour Watch director Li Qiang urged the California-based company’s
chief executive Tim Cook to make good on repeated pledges to improve.
“Apple should take the responsibility to change the poor working
conditions of those workers,” Li told AFP.
Apple did not immediately respond to request for comment on the latest report,
but Cook said in February that the company took ensuring good working
conditions at its suppliers seriously and was constantly fixing problems.
Following the FLA report, Apple’s largest supplier, Taiwan’s Foxconn, also
pledged to end workplace abuses at its factories in China, including
overtime above the amount permitted by Chinese law.
Foxconn has come under scrutiny since 2010, following a spate of suicides and
incidents of labour unrest at its Chinese plants.
At least 13 of its employees died in apparent suicides in 2010, with several
more deaths last year.
China Labour Watch said other Apple suppliers had treated their staff worse
than Foxconn, which has received the most attention.
“The labour rights violations at Foxconn also exist in virtually all
other Apple supplier factories and in many cases are actually significantly
more dire than Foxconn,” the report said.
The labour group found employees worked an average of between 100 and 130
hours of overtime a month at the 10 factories, well above China’s legal
limit of 36 hours.
Low wages compelled workers to accept overtime and some factories did not
properly compensate them for the hours, it said.
Working conditions in factories that produce cases for Apple products were
especially poor, including exposure to loud noise and toxic chemicals, the
report said.
Workers had little ability to push for better conditions because they did not
know how independent unions functioned, it said. China only allows only one
national trade union, which has links to the government.
Foxconn responded to the report by saying it was committed to making changes
following the FLA audit in March.
“The process of change in our company continues, and competitive wages,
improved living conditions and the abolition of the use of dispatched
workers by our company are some examples of this,” it said in a
statement.
Another company named in the report, a unit of US-headquartered Jabil Circuit
in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, denied some of the accusations,
including no limits on overtime for some workers.
“Some of the things said by employees do not conform with the company’s
situation. We abide by state regulations,” a personnel official, who
declined to be named, told AFP.
Apple products are wildly popular in China, where the iPhone and iPad are
particularly coveted by wealthy consumers.
China Labour Watch said more than 70 percent of the workers it surveyed did
not own Apple products but would like to have at least one.
An Apple spokesman said: “For the past five months we have been monitoring
working hours for over 700,000 workers throughout our supply chain and the
results are available on our website. Last month we found 95 per cent
compliance with our code of conduct, which limits working hours to 60 per
week.”
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