{"id":44295,"date":"2014-12-19T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=44295 "},"modified":"2014-12-19T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T15:54:00","slug":"44295-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=44295","title":{"rendered":"Apple \\’failing to protect Chinese factory workers\\’"},"content":{"rendered":"
18 December 2014 Last updated at 13:27 ET<\/div>
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Poor treatment of workers in Chinese factories which make Apple products has been discovered by an undercover BBC Panorama investigation.<\/div>
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Filming on an iPhone 6 production line showed Apple’s promises to protect workers were routinely broken.<\/div>
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It found standards on workers’ hours, ID cards, dormitories, work meetings and juvenile workers were being breached at the Pegatron factories.<\/div>
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Apple said it strongly disagreed with the programme’s conclusions.<\/div>
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Exhausted workers were filmed falling asleep on their 12-hour shifts at the Pegatron factories on the outskirts of Shanghai.<\/div>
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One undercover reporter, working in a factory making parts for Apple computers, had to work 18 days in a row despite repeated requests for a day off.<\/div>
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Another reporter, whose longest shift was 16 hours, said: “Every time I got back to the dormitories, I wouldn’t want to move.<\/div>
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“Even if I was hungry I wouldn’t want to get up to eat. I just wanted to lie down and rest. I was unable to sleep at night because of the stress.”<\/div>
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‘Continuous improvement’<\/div>
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Apple declined to be interviewed for the programme, but said in a statement: “We are aware of no other company doing as much as Apple to ensure fair and safe working conditions.<\/div>
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“We work with suppliers to address shortfalls, and we see continuous and significant improvement, but we know our work is never done.”<\/div>
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Apple said it was a very common practice for workers to nap during breaks, but it would investigate any evidence they were falling asleep while working.<\/div>
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It said it monitored the working hours of more than a million workers and that staff at Pegatron were averaging 55 hours a week.<\/div>
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The poor conditions in Chinese factories were highlighted in 2010 when 14 workers killed themselves at Apple’s biggest supplier, Foxconn.<\/div>
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