Meet the people that make iPhones and iPads
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BBC Panorama secret filming inside Apple factory
Watch undercover filming at an Apple factory in Shanghai showing exhausted workers
UK Telegraph 19 Dec 2014
The BBC's Panorama programme sent undercover reporters to Apple's Pegatron factories on the outskirts of Shanghai, where it claims to have uncovered poor treatment of workers and a breach of standards on workers' hours.
The BBC report, broadcast on Thursday, alleged that workers fell asleep during 12 hour shifts on the iPhone 6 production line and were made to work 18 days in a row after repeatedly being denied requests for a day off.
A worker at her post in a Chinese iPhone factory Screen Cap/BBC Panorama
Apple senior vice president of operations Jeff Williams has responded to the allegations in an email to staff, saying both himself and the chief executive Tim Cook were "deeply offended by the suggestion that Apple would break a promise to the workers in our supply chain or mislead our customers in any way".
...Apple employs around 1,400 manufacturing workers in China...
MORE: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/11303772/BBC-Panorama-secret-filming-inside-Apple-factory.html
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Apple 'failing to protect Chinese factory workers'
By Richard Bilton BBC Panorama Decenber 2014
Poor treatment of workers in Chinese factories which make Apple products has been discovered by an undercover BBC Panorama investigation.
Filming on an iPhone 6 production line showed Apple's promises to protect workers were routinely broken.
It found standards on workers' hours, ID cards, dormitories, work meetings and juvenile workers were being breached at the Pegatron factories.
Apple said it strongly disagreed with the programme's conclusions.
Exhausted workers were filmed falling asleep on their 12-hour shifts at the Pegatron factories on the outskirts of Shanghai...
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30532463
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Apple iPhone sales trample expectations as profit sets global record
By Christina Farr Tue Jan 27, 2015 Reuters
An iPhone 6 phone is seen on display at the Fifth Avenue Apple store on the first day of sales
in Manhattan, NY September 19, 2014. Credit: Reuters/Adrees Latif
Apple Inc quarterly results smashed Wall Street expectations with record sales of big-screen iPhones in the holiday shopping season and a 70 percent rise in China sales, powering the company to the largest profit in corporate history.
The company sold 74.5 million iPhones in its fiscal first quarter ended Dec. 27, while many analysts had expected fewer than 70 million. Revenue rose to $74.6 billion from $57.6 billion a year earlier.
Profit of $18 billion was the biggest ever reported by a public company, worldwide, according to S&P analyst Howard Silverblatt. Apple's cash pile is now $178 billion, enough to buy IBM (IBM.N) or the equivalent to $556 for every American.
Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said the Cupertino, California-based company would release its next product, the Apple Watch, in April...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/27/us-apple-results-idUSKBN0L02QG20150127
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Apple Sold 30,000 iPhones An Hour Last Quarter, Scored Record Profits
NPR.org 1/28/2015
Sales of Apple's larger iPhone 6 and 6 Plus hit one out of the ballpark last quarter, reports NPR's Laura Sydell...
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/01/28/382032411/apple-sold-30-000-iphones-an-hour-last-quarter-scored-record-profits
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How Does Apple Avoid Taxes?
5/28/13 Forbes.com
Apple set up some Irish subsidiaries a mere four years after it was founded. Foreign sales, which account for 60% of Apple’s profits, are routed through these Irish subsidiaries and taxed nowhere. How is this possible, when the intellectual property that supports the value of Apple’s products is in the United States?
Apple has an Irish holding company with no operations or employees at the top of its foreign operations. This company also serves as a group finance company. Apple Inc., the U.S. parent of the whole group, pays U.S. tax on the investment earnings of this company. Otherwise, the holding company pays no tax to any government, and has not paid tax for five years. It claims tax residence nowhere.
Beneath the holding company is an Irish principal company that holds the contracts with Apple’s Chinese contract manufacturers and owns the inventory they produce. It also claims tax residence nowhere, despite having paid some tax to Ireland in recent years, but at rate far below the statutory rate. It and another Apple operating affiliate share the foreign rights to Apple’s U.S. based technology...
http://www.forbes.com/sites/leesheppard/2013/05/28/how-does-apple-avoid-taxes/
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Chinese Workers Making iPhones Work 11-Hour Shifts, 6 Days A Week, For $1.50 Per Hour
Kevin Smith 7/29/13 Business Insider
Individuals assembling Apple's iPhones in China allegedly work long hours for low pay. A new report by China Labor Watch, a labor rights organization gives specific details of the workers schedules.
Download Report (PDF) http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/pdf/apple_s_unkept_promises.pdf
Workers schedules are set at six days a week, with 11-hour shifts, 20 minutes of which is unpaid. The remainder of the shift is paid at a rate of $1.50 and hour which equals $268 per month before overtime...
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-labor-watch-apple-iphone-workers-2013-7
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$18 Billion profit, no taxes and $1.50/hr labor
"Slavery never ended, it just shifted geographically"- Internet comment
= new reply since forum marked as read
Same argument per abortion.
Case closed.
out of mind as the saying goes. Meanwhile most of us continue to feed the beast that is eating us alive.
It owns us thats called slavery by convenience .
