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In reply to the discussion: Apple CEO Tim Cook Visits Foxconn's iPhone Plant In China [View all]Pholus
(4,062 posts)22. Well it got results, didn't it?
If Apple wasn't such a thin-skinned company when it comes to their reputation nothing would have changed at all. As it is, they get to brag with a 90% compliance rate at holding their workers to a 60 hour week. The target was well chosen.
And no sight was lost.
I will give kudos to Apple for doing something starting to approximate the right thing there.
That's as strong as my praise gets on that subject.
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he's going there to twist arms in an attempt to pressure mangement into keep the
leftyohiolib
Mar 2012
#1
I imagine that your mind-reading skills could be put to better use than this. nt.
harmonicon
Mar 2012
#18
Even though Daisey's "report" was less than factual, the number of suicides does indicate oppressive
gateley
Mar 2012
#2
Conditions there are oppressive, however the suicide rate is lower than the average Chinese factory.
onehandle
Mar 2012
#3
I inhabit several Apple forums and call for Apple to buy inert American factories...
onehandle
Mar 2012
#10
I don't understand all the tax stuff, but I've heard that Apple won't be bringing back those
gateley
Mar 2012
#23
What's your phone? What's your computer? Are you going to boycott those companies as
gateley
Mar 2012
#9
I am not going to buy anything Apple because I don't need any of their products
Kolesar
Mar 2012
#16
how about keep the computer and quit buying the icrap garbage they keep pumping out
leftyohiolib
Mar 2012
#28
Surprisingly, POW barracks in Germany always seemed so nice ... when the Red Cross visited.
PSPS
Mar 2012
#8
The part I find hard to swallow is that Mike Daisey has an 'upscale' NY City Apartment.
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2012
#29