Surprised? We are too, according to reports, Your favorite iPhone and iPad are build by 13 year old kids in China who work for 70 cents an hour. With this report, Apple joins the long list of multi-national company who have been marked for child labor exploitation, real scandal – go to LaborLawCC.com to find out details.
These report indirectly tell you how inexpensively the devices are made and exorbitant prices Apple charges its customer, the more concerning part is the child labor, the children who make the iPhones and iPads not only don’t own the iPhones and iPads because they can’t afford it, but also, in some cases haven’t seen it.
Here are something findings that BusinessInsider points out discussed on an American TV show by Mike Daisey
- The Chinese city of Shenzhen is where most of our “crap” is made. 30 years ago, Shenzhen was a little village on a river. Now it’s a city of 13 million people — bigger than New York.
- Foxconn, one of the companies that builds iPhones and iPads (and products for many other electronics companies), has a factory in Shenzhen that employs 430,000 people.
- There are 20 cafeterias at the Foxconn Shenzhen plant. They each serve 10,000 people.
- One Foxconn worker Mike Daisey interviewed, outside factory gates manned by guards with guns, was a 13-year old girl. She polished the glass of thousands of new iPhones a day.
- The 13-year old said Foxconn doesn’t really check ages. There are on-site inspections, from time to time, but Foxconn always knows when they’re happening. And before the inspectors arrive, Foxconn just replaces the young-looking workers with older ones.
- In the first two hours outside the factory gates, Daisey meets workers who say they are 14, 13, and 12 years old (along with plenty of older ones). Daisey estimates that about 5% of the workers he talked to were underage.
Apple is not the only company who has been in this position, previously, companies like Nike, Adidas and Benetton have been accused of child labor and bad factory conditions in the Asian and Middle eastern countries.
What do you think about this, would you diss your iPad and iPhone now? or would it be life as usual with an unclear conscience?