"The Truth of the Apple iPad Behind Foxconn's Lies"

Foxconn is the largest electronics manufacturing in the world.  It’s also one of the most profitable companies with $ 79 billion.

The company mainly works for such a notable company as Apple, Hp and Dell.

Internationally,  Foxconn is best known because in 2010 at least 18 of its workers tried to end their lives.

Therefore a number of Foxconn’s customers like Apple have publicly pledged to “work with Foxconn” to live up to higher international labour standards.

Unfortunately, Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (Sacom), a Hong Kong-based labour organization, still denounces the false statement by Foxconn and its custumers.

A short video on working conditions at Foxconn's iPad production site in Chengdu, “the Truth of the Apple iPad Behind Foxconn's Lies”, has been released to unveil the exploitations at Foxconn to Apple's consumers. 

The footage was taken in March and April 2011 during Sacom's investigations. It documented labour rights abuses at Foxconn's plants in Chengdu, including misleading job advertisement, dangerous working environment, inadequate measures on work safety, excessive and forced overtime work, and deprived of social life. Foxconn's plants in Chengdu exclusively produce for Apple. Regrettably, Apple condones the labour rights violations at Foxconn.

How is it possible?


To be honest, it’s not just Apple.

This kind of problems comes from our hypocrisy.

In fact, a new social security law will soon make China a little more like the West.

But for those who see China as an unregulated business paradise, the new law is a disaster.

In other words, Westerners criticize China because they don’t want to conform to our idea of human rights and then attack them when they try to do just that.

The new social security in China, and new taxes necessary to fund it, will make the country less attractive as a place to outsource production. Higher taxes and higher labor costs—the result in part of recent salary increases in response to demands by workers—run the risk that some companies will pack up and move out in search of some other, cheaper “world factory.”

This is one of the West’s greatest contradictions.

For years we’ve complained that our local businesses relocate to China in search of competitive advantages as we lose jobs at home. Now that the Chinese model is changing, we’re afraid of losing the very advantages that drew us there in the first place.

There is an old saying that says: “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die”.

(from a peacerepoter article)