Smart phones being made in sweat shops in China

[R_C]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Apple's just-released progress report on the labor-related practices of its overseas parts suppliers reveals grim truths behind the making of such popular gadgets as the iPad and iPhone--including worker poisonings, child labor violations, and 60-plus-hour work weeks.

The Supplier Responsibility 2011 Progress Report, released just weeks after Apple logged record profits of $6 billion, marks the first time the company has officially acknowledged that 137 workers &quot;suffered adverse health effects&quot; at Wintek's Suzhou factory in China (which supplies parts to Apple and Nokia) because of exposure to n-hexane, a toxic chemical in cleaning agents.</div></div>

Full story here.

Now weren't Diddy (&quot;Sean John&quot, Jay-Z (&quot;Roca Wear&quot and Russell Simmons (&quot;Phat Pharm&quot raked over the coals in the media for the conditions under which the garment workers in Honduras who made their clothes (at a whopping average of about 50 cents per sweatshirt) toiled ?

Waiting to see if Apple and Nokia get the same treatment.

[missus_vegas]

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[Xavier]

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Apple will probably make changes. They hate bad press...I agree though that there is a major double standard on who gets called out...

[j-kid]

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No big surprise here. Many USA companies, practice the corporate form of &quot;Don't Ask, Dont Tell&quot;.

Dem like fi pretend like dem noh kno whe ah gwaan inna dem country deh, till dem get called pan di mat fi explain di hypocrisy.

[Cultcha]

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I hear over in India, where many of my company's jobs just went, some of the service jobs are being done by workers who are actually inmates in prisons. Instead of paying $2.00 an hour to an Indian worker they pay $2.00 a day.

Slavery is still alive and kicking.

[RichD]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kotch_Foot_Milo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I hear over in India, where many of my company's jobs just went, some of the service jobs are being done by workers who are actually inmates in prisons. Instead of paying $2.00 an hour to an Indian worker they pay $2.00 a day.

Slavery is still alive and kicking. </div></div>

has anybody asked your company management about this?

[johnnycakes]

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HOLD ON, HOLD ON... HOLD ON!


HELLO??????
The whole idea of capitalism is to make as much profit as you can.
This is done in large part by paying the workers only enough to get them or the next worker back the next day.

Someone said that the ideal situation for a factory owner would be to have his factory on a huge barge that could be towed from country to country wherever the pay scale is lowest. That is just about what has happened.

SO.. sure criticize Apple but you shoor look stoopid if you do that and don't realize that this is how capitalism works everywhere all the time.

If you're going to criticize Apple then you'd better think long and hard about the morality of the economic system that drives what may or not be moral people to do immoral things.

Steve Jobs is no better or no worse than anyone at the top of a corporation.

They all contribute to the deaths of hundreds of millions of people who die of the effects of poverty by just doing what they do.

We all do our part by not recognizing what is evil and what is not. What is moral and what is not. It is much easier to close our eyes and buy that cheap pair of jeans and blindly accept what is..

[j-kid]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kotch_Foot_Milo</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...some of the service jobs are being done by workers who are actually inmates in prisons. Slavery is still alive and kicking. </div></div>

Yuh kno sey dem duh dat same ting right here inna di USA right? Som ah dem hav access tuh yuh credit card info an stuff.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2004-07-06-call-center_x.htm

[R_C]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: johnnycakes</div><div class="ubbcode-body">We all do our part by not recognizing what is evil and what is not. What is moral and what is not. It is much easier to close our eyes and buy that cheap pair of jeans and blindly accept what is.. </div></div>

Where do you buy and what brand of jeans do you wear jc ?

[R_C]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: johnnycakes</div><div class="ubbcode-body">We all do our part by not recognizing what is evil and what is not. What is moral and what is not. It is much easier to close our eyes and buy that cheap pair of jeans and blindly accept what is.. </div></div>

Do you have a pension plan jc ?

[R_C]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: johnnycakes</div><div class="ubbcode-body">We all do our part by not recognizing what is evil and what is not. What is moral and what is not. It is much easier to close our eyes and buy that cheap pair of jeans and blindly accept what is.. </div></div>

When you become eligible for social security will you be accepting the money ?

[H_O]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Xavier</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Apple will probably make changes. They hate bad press...I agree though that there is a major double standard on who gets called out... </div></div> and do you think Nike has corrected the situation when they got called on it?
Corporations dont care. its easy to get rid of the problem--with money which Apple has plenty of

[Tony_Royal]

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If China or India can produce the same good for less, what's wrong with that? It's not slave labor. They are being paid.
The market determine the rate! Not government. No one is forcing them to work. If you don't like your job and feel that you're being underpaid or treated unfairly! Find another job!

[H_O]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: TonyRoyal</div><div class="ubbcode-body">If China or India can produce the same good for less, what's wrong with that? It's not slave labor. They are being paid.
The market determine the rate! Not government. No one is forcing them to work. If you don't like your job and feel that you're being underpaid or treated unfairly! Find another job!

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and you sound like one of those good for nothing 2nd year University graduate pencil pushers working in Accounting.
you wont be saying that when you get the pink slip and your boss tells you your jobs going to Calcutta

[Tony_Royal]

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Johnny I have to stop you!!!!!!

If I want to take my barge to any country to get the most bang for my bucks, Whats wrong with that?

I keep repeating! Competition and the free market set the rates. Not government! If the workers think I am paying too low. I have two choices. I either raise the pay rate or find other workers willing to work at the rate I am paying.

Now suppose I travel all over the world and cannot find workers at the rate I want to pay. I have no other choice than to RAISE MY PAY RATES. Did government let that happen. No! THE MARKET DID.

Also if another barge owner comes along and pay even more than I am offering. Competition will set the rate even higher. We both will have to compete for the workers. The worker will benefit due to competition CAPITALISM WORKS. SOCIALISM is DEAD!!!