Apple denies slave labor behind the iPad and iPhone – Mad Money

BBC report exposed inhumane working conditions in a Chinese factory and purchase of illegal tin mine in Indonesia where children work

“Broken Promises” is the name of the report that the BBC aired Thursday evening and that exposes the slave labor conditions in a Chinese factory that makes iPhones and iPads for Apple, and the use of tin acquired in mine Indonesian illegal where there is child labor. The US company said the documentary saying it is “deeply offended by the suggestion that Apple would break a promise made to employees of its supply chain or deceive their customers in any way.”

Apple’s Problems with poor working conditions began in 2010, when 14 suicides were revealed at the factory which was the largest supplier to Apple at the time, Foxconn. Following this news, the company released a set of guidelines on how workers should be treated in factories and cut production so that there was less pressure on suppliers.

The BBC report could pass a reporter for employee, who was hired through an agency, to see how everything happens in Pegatron, the new plant riding iPhone6 ​​around Shanghai. “Within minutes, the rules of Apple were broken,” says the reporter who exposed are common week of 60 hours, with shifts that can last 16 hours. Also reported having worked 18 days in a row without play, not being allowed to do so. Exhausted, workers who sleep literally in service. When they leave, share a cramped dorm and “can not sleep due to stress.”