Apple has cut ties with a Chinese supplier after an audit found that it had hired a large number of underage employees, according to the company’s latest Supplier Responsibility Report.
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Apple has always been ahead of the curve. That’s why it should bring manufacturing jobs back to the United States.
The company has taken advantage of low wages and other manufacturing advantages in China for long enough. Now that attention …
The Fair Labor Association released its report on Apple’s Foxconn factory audit today, finding serious worker-rights violation and getting an agreement from both companies to take immediate action.
“The findings of FLA’s nearly month-long investigation revealed serious and pressing noncompliances …
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President Barack Obama reportedly asked Steve Jobs what it would take to bring iPhone manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. to which Jobs replied, “Those jobs aren’t coming back.”
The exchange, according to a Jan. 12, 2012 report in the …
Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer that Apple heavily relies on for its products, may have tried to clean up its act before inspectors from the Fair Labor Association descended on its factories, according to a Hong Kong non-governmental organization dedicated to …
What is it like inside a factory that makes Apple iPads? Tuesday night, an ABC Nightline special called “iFactory” gave us the first peak at actual factory working conditions and the people living on the assembly line.
Bill Weir, a …
ABC’s “Nightline” news program will air a special report Tuesday night that will give an “unprecedented” look into the Apple production lines at the troubled Foxconn plants in China. Labor conditions at the plants have drawn the ire of critics …
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In a week when Apple reported its highest quarterly earnings ever, the company is still plagued with reports of labor abuses among its suppliers.
It’s becoming increasingly clear that Apple — which is now sitting pretty with $97.7 billion in …
Foxconn plans to replace some of its workers with 1 million robots in the next three years in order to cut rising labor expenses.
The Taiwanese manufacturing company, which makes high-profile products for companies such as Apple and Hewlett-Packard, will …
