Employees work excessive overtime, in some cases seven days a week, and live in crowded dorms. Some say they stand so long that their legs swell until they can hardly walk. Under-age workers have helped build Apple’s products, and the company’s suppliers have improperly disposed of hazardous waste and falsified records
the reason Apple assembles iPhones and iPads in China instead of America, is that assembling them here or Europe would cost much, much more — even with shipping and transportation. And it would cost much, much more because, in the United States and Europe, we have established minimum acceptable standards for the treatment and pay of workers like those who build the iPhones and iPads.
FOXCONN TO MASS PRODUCE THEIR OWN "INTELLIGENT ROBOTICS KINGDOM"
's Shandong plant on fire (UPDATED with video) via @9to5mac
: Explosion Kills Two, iPad Production Line Halted - @Gizmodo
RT @MikeDobell: --> unemployment at wow thats a crazy stat
Workers had complained about conditions at Foxconn factories in the past, with some saying they felt like machines themselves. Was this iPad made by a robot? - Hardware - Technology - News - CRN Australia.