Apple To Help Improve Factories In China
By John Ruwitch SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple Inc and its key supplier Foxconn Technology Group will share the initial costs of improving ...
By John Ruwitch SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple Inc and its key supplier Foxconn Technology Group will share the initial costs of improving ...
Michelle Chen | Posted 04.24.2012
Apple presides over a global technology empire, but the economic landscapes it shapes around the world are strangely uneven. As long as corporations can freely cross national boundaries, workers' rights should be just as global.
The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 04.12.2012
Rumors, reports and downright lies have been swirling around the conditions of Foxconn factories in China that assemble products like Apple's new iPad...
Dave Johnson | Posted 03.30.2012
Apple's suppliers promise to improve conditions, make workplaces safer, stop forcing such long hours and lift wages. Foxconn even says they'll start obeying Chinese law -- but not until next year!
Adam Hanft | Posted 03.30.2012
Seduction wins over obligation. Based on the minimal level of visible, practical outrage -- boycotts, petitions, any social storm at all -- it's clear that the manifold pleasures we derive from Apple's products are blinding us.
AP | JOE McDONALD and MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 03.30.2012
BEIJING — Consumers probably won't have to pay more for iPads, iPhones and other popular consumer electronics despite a Chinese company's pledge...
The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.30.2012
The odds of you winning tonight's $540 million Mega Millions jackpot are 175 million to one, but there are only seven and a half things you need to kn...
The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 03.30.2012
The results of an audit of three Foxconn factories that manufacture Apple products has turned up "serious and pressing" violations of Chinese labor la...
AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 03.29.2012
NEW YORK -- The Chinese workers who often spend more than 60 hours per week assembling iPhones and iPads will have their overtime curbed and their hou...
Reuters | Poornima Gupta and Edwin Chan | Posted 03.30.2012
* Violations discovered that Apple and Foxconn addressing * To reduce work hours but keep pay steady * I...
Peter Navarro and Greg Autry | Posted 05.26.2012
What is most tragic here isn't Daisey's lying -- everything in China is part of the Big Lie -- it's that his misplaced heroism and genuine American naivety on economics is so common in the media.
The Huffington Post | Courteney Palis | Posted 03.22.2012
Apple has published new information about working conditions in Chinese supplier factories where many iPhone, iPad and MacBook devices are assembled. ...
Danny Groner | Posted 05.18.2012
After a January 6 episode of This American Life went viral, reporter Rob Schmitz began to wonder how much of the story was true.
James Napoli | Posted 05.12.2012
You will not believe the lifelike photographic resolution on the New iPad. I'm telling you, these photographs of the Chinese workers at the Foxconn plant look like they are right in the room with you.
Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.11.2012
Throughout the first decade of the new century, before the recession hit, wages lagged behind living costs for the vast majority of Americans -- because the top one percent were capturing such a large share of the economy's total productivity gains. Some of this trend was the result of globalization undercutting the bargaining power of U.S. workers; some of it resulted from weakened trade unions and minimum wage laws lagging behind inflation. So when we finally climb out of this jobs recession, perhaps we can belatedly confront these deeper trends. How to do that? Unions, wage regulation, progressive taxation, and government using existing powers that it seldom exercises. But what about manufacturing? This brings me to the other Jobs of my title, the late Steve Jobs.
Christal Smith | Posted 05.07.2012
"The monk, by burning himself, says with all his strength and determination that he can endure the greatest of sufferings to protect his people... " ...
Reuters | Ben Blanchard | Posted 05.07.2012
By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - Some foreign companies in China exploit their workers by forcing them to do overtime or underpayin...
Posted 03.05.2012
Remember that UPS truck driver that delivered your iPad? Apple wants credit for the creation of that job. The world's most valuable company releas...
Dave Johnson | Posted 05.01.2012
When we allow companies to just import stuff that is made by exploited workers in countries where people do not have a say, we are granting not-having-a-say an advantage over having a say. We make democracy a competitive disadvantage.
Natalie Pace | Posted 04.30.2012
Apple achieved what only five other companies have ever done: a market capitalization of $500 billion. So, will our Apple addiction be as profound and long-lived as our oil addiction? Not if Google and Amazon have anything to do with it.
The Huffington Post | Meghan Neal | Posted 03.21.2012
Reports are swirling that Apple supplier Foxconn hid teenage employees before inspections by the Fair Labor Association. Workers age 16-18 were ban...
Reuters | James Pomfret | Posted 04.23.2012
By James Pomfret LONGHUA, China (Reuters) - Apple's top manufacturer in China, Foxconn Technology, is having no problems luring fresh w...
Reuters | Noel Randewich and Poornima Gupta | Posted 04.23.2012
By Noel Randewich and Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard and Dell Inc are keeping a close eye on a big jump in wa...
Reuters | Posted 04.18.2012
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Foxconn Technology Group, the top maker of Apple Inc's iPhones and iPads whose factories are under scrutiny over labor practices, h...
Jeffrey Kaye | Posted 04.17.2012
Apple's size makes it exceptional, but it is only one of countless transnational companies which are able to choose efficiency and lower prices over employee rights and environmental protections.
Reuters | John Ruwitch | Posted 05.10.2012