Petr Šourek Since I began to follow the events of the world, I have come to the fact that most of the cases that are being denied everywhere are to distract people from more serious cases. I'm not saying this happens all the time, but it does happen quite often. Now even Apple is in the media spotlight.
It's interesting that the hype about tracking our phones came about a year after the fact was already being pointed out. So I kept reading the various servers and came across the sheet The Guardian, which quotes The Observer newspaper. The article is about the company Foxconn, which manufactures and supplies for Apple.
The article talks about the inhumane treatment of employees involved in production. Not only do they work overtime, but they even reportedly have to sign a no-suicide addendum. The suicide rate at Foxconn factories was said to be high, which is said to have led to this clause. Another point was the discovery that it was perfectly normal for this company's dormitories to have up to 24 employees in a room and they were subject to quite strict conditions. For example, when one employee broke the rules and used a hair dryer, he was "forced" to write a letter admitting that he had made the mistake and would never do it again.
Foxconn manager Louis Woo confirmed that workers sometimes worked more than the legal overtime limit to meet consumer demand. But he claimed that all other hours were voluntary.
Of course, the article was subsequently updated with a statement from the managers of this company, where they deny everything. There was also a statement from Apple, where they describe that they require their suppliers to treat their employees fairly. It is further stated that their suppliers are monitored and audited. I'm going to dig here, because if that were the case, this would never happen.
I won't judge, let everyone draw their own picture.
Source: The Guardian
I've read that too, but I wouldn't say there's anything Apple can do about it. He can ask them or try to negotiate with them, but it's a completely different company and their supplier, so I don't think they have much leverage to do anything about it. But otherwise I agree that it's pretty appalling…
I highly recommend you to visit China, or to chat with someone who has been there and penetrated behind the scenes of employment there (I did the latter). Considering that all the factories there treat their employees +- the same, I'm not surprised that it's actually Apple in the rear. :-)
Does the author really mean that, or is it some kind of late April? I understand the construction correctly, that The Observer revealed (for about the fifteenth time in a row in the last x years) the unfair practices of Apple in the factories of one of its suppliers (which, by the way, has one of the lowest suicide rates in China), so Apple's PR shook its head and sent to the world half-duck about spying on the iPhone???
Could I please have the contact of the author's drug dealer?
Well, I don't know, I find the article quite biased from the beginning. I myself work at Foxconn and a few of my colleagues go/have gone to "China" on business trips and have not encountered anything like that. To put it simply, this seems pretty far-fetched to me.
And about the article, I just don't understand this sentence: "For example, when one employee used a hair dryer, he was "forced" to write a letter admitting that he made a mistake and will never do it again." taken out of context from the original article?
Regarding the last sentence. Of course, audits are carried out in such companies, and it is not as sloppy as you might think. So why dig into something I don't understand…
Just a normal duck…
It's Mikesh
it is your opinion, that in that restaurant where "your" auditors did not find anything, it is not their fault, but the fault of the politicians there. I assume that the suicide of the employee and the addendum in the contract is a significant proof that this is not a duck.
Take a look at companies in the Czech Republic, how they treat their employees. It's not that controversial, but it's still enough for a mature state. In terms of local culture, it's the same everywhere. I don't see a single reason to spread such spam or tabloid. This article reminds me of the journal Blesk rather than the apple tree
Cover? What on earth? After all, they already know how to recite all this even to the grandparents in school... As an employee, I sign a contract where I promise not to commit suicide, that they have a lot of suicides, that they have low salaries and that they behave like horses... As if things were ever different in China... I don't know how you arrived to the opinion that this is some kind of novelty.. These are cases that are several years old and are constantly being discussed over and over again.. And foxcon does not only produce devices for apple.. I don't understand this feeling of the public that when something is done with foxcon, it is done for apple.. Even Sony in Nitra already belongs to foxcon... Are you proud that iPhones are assembled there?
"it's your opinion, that in that restaurant where "your" auditors didn't find anything, it's not their fault, but the fault of the politicians there"
Um, what?
AKSONE writes this everywhere, on Mobilmania and iDnes. Journalists simply have to write something, so why not about it, Apple is mentioned and readership is guaranteed. Otherwise, I work for a multinational company that prides itself on how much it cares about its employees, and I can confirm that it is different for him. I didn't have to sign that I don't commit harakiri, but after finishing the work. I am not allowed to join a competitor for 2 years and I am not allowed to reveal anything about production. And I have no illusions about audits either. Last year we had 36 including ISO. It looks like this, the production is lowered so that the operators (as the workers are called) have enough time for everything, and then at night, or everything is catching up with the extraordinary Sunday shift. You also need to find out how it works in China, because if it were here, a lot of people would probably commit suicide.
Good comment. I would just like to add that idnes.cz is quite a tabloid today. it's better to watch foreign newspapers with the help of Google Translate, but that's just my similar opinion. Otherwise, with regard to suicides, it may not be a matter of the company, but of certain individuals in managerial positions, or it may be completely different. If your company is dissatisfied with efficiency or other things, it would be good to contact a business consultant. it is true that audits and other things are not carried out thoroughly and as they should be, but that is a global trend.
Those suicides are definitely not managers, but ordinary workers.
And foreign newspapers are the same cesspool as ours. The fact that you perceive them differently is just delusion. I know a lot of people who don't even consider The New York Times suitable for kindling in the stove.
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I would try to clarify why Apple is being written about,
The point is that after Steve Jobs took over the leadership position of Apple, a trend began to emerge - to drastically reduce the prices of products for their production. As a result, Apple's global production was at a loss at Fox (but also at other production-competing companies), Fox took it only as a matter of preemption - to produce for Apple and hoped that in time it would somehow get into profit. In other words = Apple stopped paying fair prices to the manufacturers (not just Fox) of their products. Fox had only two options, to subsidize Apple's production from other manufactured brands (here, however, the risk of a revealed scandal would be much greater) or to compensate for the drastic reduction in production prices by higher "exploitation" of worker positions.
Other companies producing, for example, at Fox pay fair prices, and that is the reason why only Apple is written about, because Apple's unfair behavior is implicitly known, but it is apparently not possible to blame them directly, ...
Therefore, those of you who want to buy a fair product, do not buy Apple - they bear the imprint of slave labor of the poorest and the last who do not get paid for the real value of their work.
Doris, please try to support your conclusions with some serious data/articles, not your own assumptions.
Apple is written about because it is successful and still expanding. Do you think that the various western human rights activists would not properly inflate this affair and get it in the media? The crash would be so big that a company the size of Apple can't afford it because it could seriously damage it. Apple also conducts random inspections of its suppliers due to possible negative publicity.
What do you think is a fair price? It's a matter of supply and demand. Foxconn manufactures Macs in China, but some models/parts are also made in the Czech Republic. Do you think the company produces below cost? He can't afford that. Is it better for it to produce millions of iPhones and iPads per month than tens of thousands at a "fair price"? Certainly when people from Apple come to them to negotiate a specific order and say: you are going to make millions of units and we want it for $5, the Asians enthusiastically nod and say OK? It's a very tough business and he bargains. Every entrepreneur calculates in advance whether such an order will pay off for him. Do you think Sony is going to say: we'll give you $12, and if that's not enough, we'll be happy to pay another $5?
In that case, you should not buy any branded goods, goods made in China, Asia, Latin America or Africa. You should not drink Coca Cola, eat at MacDonalds, use cotton products from African plantations, no tropical fruits... and ride a bike or horse.
Is it Apple's fault that the workers have low wages or is it their employer's fault? Why does this happen, for example, in communist China, where the state supposedly advocates for a just world and claims to defend workers' rights? Try to answer that.
"Apple is also conducting spot checks on its suppliers due to possible negative publicity."
Back it up with facts (because the term "serious article" is rather vague).