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Apple Investigates Claim That Illegal Student Labor Was Used To Assemble Apple Watch (bgr.com) 69

Posted by BeauHD from the child-labor dept.
Apple is currently investigating a report that Apple Watch supplier Quanta Computer relied upon illegally employed students to help manufacture the company's exceedingly popular wearable. "Originally brought to light by The Financial Times, the report details how dozens of students were ostensibly working as interns, but in reality were working assembly line shifts, often throughout the night. Some students even reported working six days a week in 12-hour shifts," reports BGR. From the report: The allegations stem from a report put together by SACOM, a workers rights group based out of Hong Kong. In compiling its report, SACOM notes that it interviewed upwards of 28 students. The FT report reads in part: "The alleged abuses echo the labour violations uncovered last year in Apple's iPhone supply chain at its Foxconn Zhengzhou factory, where both Apple and Foxconn acknowledged that student interns had illegally worked overtime. The two companies said at the time that they would end the practice of student interns working extra hours." In a statement on the matter, Apple said that it is "urgently" looking into the aforementioned claims and that they have a "zero tolerance" policy for companies who try to skirt around Apple's workplace guidelines.
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  • Didn't they already do this? https://www.bbc.com/news/busin... [bbc.com]

    • Yes that was happening before, as the very summary of the article said. So Foxconn said they had stopped it, but this report shows perhaps it was not stopped after all.

      Which is also what the summary said.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Vanyle ( 5553318 )
        Also, just noticed this bit - this is by Quanta Computer not Foxconn, my mistake.

  • Right (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    I'm sure Apple is devastated...

  • I thought communism was supposed to be pro-worker.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Mashiki ( 184564 )

      I thought communism was supposed to be pro-worker.

      It *is* pro-worker. It's work until you die, and maybe you'll get a chocolate ration this year or a bullet in the head, which will be billed to your family(if any are still alive). It's famously beside the "livestock belongs to everyone" and "throw them into a gulag for not giving enough to the state."

  • you know..they could just make the watches here.. (Score:4, Informative)

    by takochan ( 470955 ) on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @01:06AM (#57559891)

    If Apple is so concerned about slave labor, rather than having this keep coming up year after year..

    they could you know..just make the watches here in America..

    like they used to with Macs and Apples years ago..

    Just saying..

    • That was before our elites collectively agreed to fuck us over and put an end to our good lives. NAFTA was the nail in the coffin of the American working class and it passed not under a Republican but under Bill Clinton and the Democrats. The Democrats also passed the harsh laws that put millions of working class in prison for ticky-tack offenses. They were all set to pass the TPP which would have been even worse until Trump threw a monkey wrench in their plans.

  • Skirting Guidelines (Score:5, Insightful)

    by mentil ( 1748130 ) on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @01:34AM (#57559941)

    they have a "zero tolerance" policy for companies who try to skirt around Apple's workplace guidelines.

    Maybe they'd have more success if they renamed that to 'mandatory workplace requirements'.

  • if this is true it will endanger Apple's reputation even though he is not the one who does it
    • obviously, and this is why Apple is worried (otherwise, not sure they would give a damn).

    • if this is true it will endanger Apple's reputation even though he is not the one who does it

      And they will deserve it, since they know what they're doing. If they actually gave a damn about workers they would have kept manufacturing here in the USA. where they used to have it.

  • Apple Commie phones are build by red china.

  • Apple investigating themselves again (Score:1)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Let me guess, not guilty!

  • If they did, people would stop buying this stuff. Nope, the commie government, has approximately 1.5 BILLION "cheerful" workers to exploit one way or another. And those workers, when shown in the print & television media will have SMILES on their faces, with brand new clean uniforms. Nope, they won't be shown in their "living conditions", which are basically a prison dorm, where the money you make, goes toward your room & board, to the point you are pretty much a slave to the shop you work for. Gott
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