'Despicable' conditions at Apple contractor in China

[unhappycamper]

http://www.dw.com/en/despicable-conditions-at-apple-contractor-in-china/a-18801084

An undercover report by rights group China Labor Watch says working conditions at a Shanghai factory of Apple contractor Pegatron are 'despicable,' showing the tech giant is still failing on its pledge for change.

'Despicable' conditions at Apple contractor in China
23.10.2015

The report , jointly released by US-based rights groups China Labor Watch (CLW) and "The Future in Our Hands" (FIOH) on Thursday, said "little progress" had been made in the conditions for workers making Apple's iPhone at Pegatron's Shanghai location.

The Taiwanese group was housing its workers in overcrowded dormitories lined with mold and crawling with bed bugs, the 43-page report titled "Something's Not Right Here" said.

The rights groups called on Apple chief executive Tim Cook to acknowledge that nothing much had changed for workers making Apple's lucrative products since Cook's 2014 appeal for people to "stand up and say if something's not right here."

"Reality for workers at Pegatron is working 12-hour shifts, six days a week, forced to do overtime work and unpaid labor, with very short breaks for meals, facing hiring fees and unreasonable fines, and receiving inadequate training in safety and prevention measures that is covered up by Pegatron through fraudulent documentation, all while living in unhygienic and cramped housing," the report found.

[chervilant]

1. Will not buy Apple products,

and will be telling everyone I know about this.