{"id":6884,"date":"2012-09-07T09:47:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T08:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2012-09-07T09:47:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T08:47:58","slug":"why-samsung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2012\/09\/07\/why-samsung\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Samsung\u2019s China Labor Problem Might Be Worse Than Apple\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/why-samsungs-china-labor-problem-might-be-worse-than-apples-2012-9\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6885\" title=\"Why Samsung\u2019s China Labor Problem Might Be Worse Than Apple\u2019s\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/120907_samsung.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>You may have heard by now that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/261883\/samsung_slammed_for_alleged_worker_mistreatment_in_china.html\">Samsung is the latest target<\/a> of labor rights groups who have shifted their focus on multinational  activity in China into overdrive. The proximate cause of this increased  activity is, of course, the success of these groups with Apple and its  supplier Foxconn. As I\u2019ve written about several times, investigations of  several Foxconn factories uncovered numerous labor violations, forcing  Apple into a defensive posture, which culminated in its welcoming in the  Fair Labor Association to perform audits and keep a \u201cscorecard\u201d as  Foxconn set about reforming its internal systems. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chinahearsay.com\/foxconn-labor-standards-progress-report\/\">I wrote about the FLA\u2019s mid-term report card<\/a> recently. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2012-09-04\/samsung-china-workers-physically-verbally-abused-group-says\">Act II, apparently, is Samsung<\/a>.  Slightly ironic that Samsung and Apple are currently locked in an  international death-by-patent fight. I suppose that when court is in  recess, their respective legal teams can go outside, smoke a ciggie, and  commiserate about labor activists and China. As the second target, Samsung should expect a drop-off in the  attention of the public and the outrage of folks who follow labor rights  issues closely. There is also a major political event that will take  place several weeks from now in China that should suck some of the air  out of just about any China-related news story. However, while Apple may have taken the biggest hits from the public  due to its being the first target, Samsung shouldn\u2019t breath a sigh of  relief just yet. Taking these allegations as true (for the moment),  there are three reasons why this might end up being worse for Samsung  than it was for Apple. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/why-samsungs-china-labor-problem-might-be-worse-than-apples-2012-9\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: China |  Company: Samsung, Apple, Hon-Hai-Precision-Industry (Foxconn)\u00c2\u00a0 | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/why-samsungs-china-labor-problem-might-be-worse-than-apples-2012-9\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard by now that Samsung is the latest target of labor rights groups who have shifted their focus on multinational activity in China into overdrive. The proximate cause of this increased activity is, of course, the success of these groups with Apple and its supplier Foxconn. As I\u2019ve written about several times,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,661,20],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-6884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-apple","tag-foxconn","tag-samsung","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=6884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}