Michal Marek Apple CEO Tim Cook, according to the magazine The Telegraph feels hurt by the accusations of the BBC that appeared in a documentary broadcast a few days ago Apple's Broken Promises. The TV station sent undercover reporters to Pegatron's Chinese factory, which makes iPhones for Apple, and to an Indonesian mine that supplies Apple with materials for components. The resulting report describes unsatisfactory working conditions for employees.
Jeff Williams, Tim Cook's successor as Apple's chief operating officer, has sent a message to the company's UK employees detailing how deeply offended he and Tim Cook are by the BBC's claims that Apple is breaking a promise it made to its supplier workers and alleging that so he deceives his customers. According to the BBC report, Apple is not working to improve working conditions, which is affecting Apple's top executives.
"Like many of you, Tim and I are deeply offended by the allegations that Apple has broken its promises to employees," Williams wrote in an internal email. “The Panorama document suggested that Apple was not working to improve working conditions. Let me tell you, nothing could be further from the truth,” Williams wrote, citing several examples such as a significant reduction in average hours worked per week. But Williams also adds that "we can still do more and we will."
Williams further revealed that Apple had provided the BBC with relevant documents relating to Cupertino's commitment to its supplier workers, but this data was "conspicuously missing from the UK station's programme".
BBC report she testified the Chinese iPhone factory for violating labor standards that Apple had previously guaranteed for workers at its suppliers. BBC reporters working at the factory had to work long shifts, were not given time off even when requested, and worked for 18 days straight. The BBC also reported on underage workers or on mandatory work meetings that workers were not paid for.
The BBC also investigated the conditions in an Indonesian mine, where even children took part in mining in dangerous conditions. Raw materials from this mine then traveled further through Apple's supply chain. Williams said Apple does not hide that it takes material from these mines, and it is also possible that some of the tin comes from illegal traffickers. But at the same time, he said that Apple has visited Indonesian areas several times and is concerned about what is happening in the mines.
"Apple has two options: We could have all our suppliers get their tin from somewhere other than Indonesia, which would probably be the easiest thing for us to do and also save us the criticism," Williams explained. "But that would be a lazy and cowardly way, because it would not improve the situation of the Indonesian miners." We chose the other way, which is to stay here and try to solve the problems together.''
You can find the full letter from Jeff Williams to the UK Apple team in English <a href="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1932/8043/files/200721_ODSTOUPENI_BEZ_UDANI_DUVODU__EN.pdf?v=1595428404" data-gt-href-en="https://en.notsofunnyany.com/">here</a>.
What is a business meeting? A meeting, a meeting, overtime, or perhaps a night out in a local bar?
possible training, it should be during working hours or be reimbursed. But it doesn't happen in our companies either, I know this from our company.
Well, I think it fits more than enough..
The truth is always somewhere in the middle. The BBC are also biased. They are trying to heat up their soup on the Appli.
I agree! A nice example of tendency and slight bending of the truth is, for example, the "documentary" Prague, the city of sin, which obviously does not agree with the truth...
Once again also on the local website. 1. Apple has no state power. 2. It's China's own fault. 3. Apple does the most for the mentioned workers that other companies do not. 4. Foxconn doesn't just make for Apple.
An insulted and puffed-up guy walks around the stage and proudly talks about billions of dollars in profits, and people who toil for a few pennies and pay for it with their health are on his ass. He should thank the BBC for showing him what life looks like in companies. I refuse to pay for another Apple product because by doing so I will also be participating in Apple's reckless actions and I apologize to these people for the products I have already purchased.
So you won't buy any clothes or other electronics? All factories in China. These comments are very funny :)
Not all clothes are from China and all food is from Babis. Ignorance is not very smiling, its consequences fall on us all.
Be aware that not everything in the news is true. According to your speech, you allowed yourself to be manipulated very easily.
So why do you read the news? of course they are enhanced, but those pictures were not taken by Cinane on Barandov.
so that's really a very, very poorly thought-out and naive cry. So, if you want to adopt this attitude and follow it consistently, then for starters you are without a phone and without a computer, because absolutely everyone there produces this product without a single exception. You may be able to get clothes that are made elsewhere than in China - but it will be a chore and will almost certainly cost double or more, since it will practically be a boutique production. At the same time, stop driving the car - almost all the electronic components in it are made in China. The same with the components of all home electronics, school supplies, stationery, …. ETC …. you will be glad in principle that a relatively large part of the food is also produced here in Europe and the surrounding area ... but otherwise I see your survival in this society as rather bleak. So good luck and a lot of patience while avoiding Chinese goods.
Exactly. I will not give up my comfort and convenience even if it means the suffering of others. Why are we even surprised that politicians behave like this, they are just our mirror.
but feel free to give up... that is, if you find some functional alternative... I don't see it and until I have a reasonable way out of some situation, then logically I don't intend to go anywhere. In particular, your contribution was completely nonsensical about "apple products" ... as if there was any equivalent that is produced in factories with happy and eager workers. This is very naive and tendentious. I also think it's pointless and hypocritical to play nonchalantly at the protection girls. The fact that we are spoiled and spoiled here today and, thanks to this softening, cut the branch under us on which such a degenerating civilization sits, does not mean that this is reasonable for the survival of any civilization as a whole. And finally, those people wouldn't work there under such conditions if it wasn't a better alternative for them than the other options available to them.
Look, you're a smart boy, you're putting one argument after another here, maybe I wouldn't even find a counterargument, but I've consciously decided that I won't cut a single tooth of the saw into that branch. And there are as many alternatives as you want if you stop limiting yourself, maybe something needs to be let go and we will discover it. What if the alternative is outside the screen...computer, mobile, television
finally fuck off
thank you
take a picture of your clothes, what you have in your closet.
I agree, but just for the clothes, I would add that if you are not shopping at the "Tamans", where most of the clothes are really from China, then a lot of clothes here are from Turkey, or Portugal and Italy. There is a lot of stuff, especially from Turkey, and expensive things are certainly not available, they are comparable in price to production from China. The so-called "branded" clothing is practically from Turkey without exception, almost everyone has it sewn there.
I wonder what you think the serious (British) journalist wrote and edited his report on.. On an eco-bio typewriter? They, not only Americans, are responsible for the conditions in which Chinese workers work. But rejecting products made by a Chinese worker won't solve anything. On the contrary, such a worker will ultimately be even worse off, he won't even have the "bad" job. Although he won't have to do 18 days in a row, he will go hungry - is that your solution?
Just one note about the report: serious journalistic work requires a non-one-sided objective presentation of the facts. This means, among other things, in this case giving room for the expression of "bad company". Not just kicking at everyone's weaknesses.
if I pay for the product, I agree with the whole system and give it a reason for existence, and if I don't want to see the consequences, it doesn't change anything. You are not interested in the survival of the worker, you only consider it as a suitable justification for other motivations, are you aware of which ones? I don't see the journalist being able to write it on a Mcbook, the question is whether he will buy a new product next time just because the previous one is already a year old and 5% slower. I am not responsible for his decisions, but for mine.
Maybe it would be enough to give up the 1% margin, but that would probably be too much and the poor shareholders would have to send their children to the mine
I think it would be too much for you too, if the 1% is 20m/month for you...
And was someone waiting for him to stand up to it and admit it with the fact that he would fix it? Did they ever admit anything? No swindler will confess unless there is some other benefit for him.
Karol 23.12.2014 at 21:40
I have been working for Foxconn for many years, I know well the character of Asian employees and I have been in Chinese factories. Those shots of workers sleeping on lines and desks in the BBC documentary may be distorted. In Asia, it is quite common for people to relax during even a short break, which is unusual in Europe. I've seen it many times. Our habit is rather to talk during the break.
To compare the working conditions in any Chinese factory with the conditions in European factories is ridiculous. Try to compare the working conditions here and, for example, in Germany. It won't stand either. I advise all Apple spitters to buy Xiaomi or Doogee or similar Chinese junk. Sure it's made in a unionized factory. It is clear that the No Children Work signs are usually etched by six-year-old children. I just wish those Chinese bastards would solder the 16GB Ram into the Mac Mini I just ordered. You can't save the world, accept that.
This is another good case, Apple's success simply has to be fed by some scrap. One thing I regret, I regret that Cook is a person who lets himself be dragged along. Jobs would have sent them all to hell and blacklisted the BBC. If I invite bricklayers to my house, am I wondering if they are being exploited? Dude, half of you shop at a hypermarket where the poor cashiers mark up in inhumane conditions and it pisses you off? No.
Ignorance and arrogance and you think it doesn't apply to you? You have it closer than in China, you have it closer than in the Hypermarket. Neither Cook nor Jobs are really to blame for that :-(
I read somewhere that those interested in working at Foxconn and Pegatron are standing in queues. They probably the "inhuman" working conditions will be one of the best, if not the best by Chinese standards, of course.