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Apple and Foxconn back under fire for working conditions

Apple and Foxconn are yet to make significant changes to labour practices that see Chinese workers work unpaid and excessive overtime,endure bullying and work in unsafe working conditions, according to not for profit group Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM). SACOM levelled the accusations in its Sweatshops are good for Apple and Foxconn, but not for workers report after visiting Foxconn’s Shenzhen and Zhangzou plants during the period March to May 2012. The group says its accusations are based on the following methodology: From March to May 2012, SACOM researchers conducted investigations around Foxconn’s production sites in [the Chinese cities] Zhengzhou and Shenzhen. Over 170 workers were interviewed. All the respondents in Zhengzhou and Guanlan, Shenzhen, produce the iPhone. Meanwhile, about 50 per cent of interviewees from Longhua and Songgang factories in Shenzhen are on Apple’s production lines. Apart from a few frontline supervisors and assistant line leaders, 90 per cent of the interviewees are production workers. More…

News selected by Covalence | Country: China | Company: Apple, Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. | Source: The Register

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