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The way forward: pressuring Apple or building a workers' movement?
Apple’s 2012 Supplier Responsibility Report has launched a discussion on the abuses in Apple’s supply chain, and how to go about remedying it. In many ways, the discussion is great because it interjects the all too hidden topic of Chinese working conditions into the mainstream. But at the same time, the challenge is to figure out how to improve conditions at Apple’s suppliers so that Chinese workers and Chinese society benefit in the long run.
27 January 2012
Daily Telegraph: Apple 'attacking problems' at its factories in China
In an email reportedly sent to Apple's 60,000 or so employees, Tim Cook, the company's chief executive said that Apple "cares about every worker in its supply chain". The letter appears to be in response to a series of articles in the New York Times cataloguing the company's problems in China and divisions within Apple about how to handle the issues.
28 January 2012
The missing link: Miner struggles to prove labour relationship with former boss
When Ma Jixing contracted the fatal lung disease pneumoconiosis his former employer refused to pay any compensation claiming Ma had never worked for the company. Ma talks to CLB Director Han Dongfang.
28 January 2012
El Pais: China entra en el siglo del urbanismo
La población urbana es por primera vez mayor que la rural en China, un cambio histórico que tendrá grandes consecuencias sobre la fuerza laboral en la llamada fábrica del mundo y someterá a una fuerte presión a los servicios sociales, el transporte y el medio ambiente en las ciudades, según los expertos. En 1949, cuando Mao Zedong proclamó la República Popular China tras vencer a los nacionalistas de Chiang Kai-shek gracias al apoyo de las masas agrarias, el 89% de la gente vivía en el campo. En los 30 años que siguieron, esta cifra solo bajó ocho puntos y se situó en el 81%.
20 January 2012
China’s misplaced concerns over workers in Africa
All of a sudden China’s overseas workers are headline news. The official Chinese media and the Internet have been flooded with expressions of concern and outrage at the abduction of 29 Chinese road workers in Sudan.
While some bloggers are demanding commando raids to rescue the workers, the Global Times took a rather more measured approach, urging Chinese embassies to do more to protect Chinese nationals, and for individuals to be more safety conscious when working overseas.
31 January 2012
CNN: Apple manufacturing plant workers complain of long hours, militant culture
Miss Chen stares curiously at the iPad. Even though she works overtime in a factory in southwestern China that manufactures them, she's never seen the finished product. "Wow, I want it," said Chen, brushing her finger across the glossy screen with curiosity and amazement.
06 February 2012
Recent blogs and reports on Apple
New research goes beyond the New York Times to show just how disturbing labor conditions at Foxconn, the "Chinese hell factory," really are.
10 February 2012
Suzhou child labour case seems to follow familiar pattern
Local government officials confirmed today that around a dozen children under the legal working age of 16 had been employed at an electronics factory in the eastern city of Suzhou, the China Daily reported. Officials investigated the factory after an online video purported to show children as young as nine-years-old working in harsh conditions on the factory’s production line for up to 12 hours a day.
14 February 2012
New employment patterns begin to emerge for migrant workers in China
After the Chinese New Year holiday, migrant workers seem to have more bargaining power than ever before at their disposal and a great deal more options as to where they’d like to work, and migrant workers in different age groups now have their own preferences.
15 February 2012
Steel workers in Shaanxi and Sichuan strike for higher pay
More than 5,000 workers at the Hanzhong Steel Company in the northern province of Shaanxi went out on strike 14 February demanding higher pay. Workers complained that they had to work weekends and holidays and yet their average monthly wage was still just between 1,000 yuan and 1,500 yuan, barely enough to live on.
17 February 2012