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| Jun 25, 2026 | Second worker dies at BYD’s Hungary factory already under scrutiny for labor practices | A second worker died on June 18 at the construction site of BYD’s electric vehicle factory in Szeged, Hungary.
The death comes after BYD has denied previous allegations of labor abuses at the site.
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| Dec 11, 2020 | Former Apple employees have accused the company of turning a blind eye to suppliers that were violating Chinese labour laws | Employees line up for roll call before their shift starts at a Pegatron Corp. factory in Shanghai, China. Qilai Shen/In Pictures via Getty Images
Apple disregarded suppliers in China breaching the labour law which caps the proportion of tem... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | Former Apple employees have accused the company of turning a blind eye to suppliers that were violating Chinese labor laws | Apple disregarded suppliers in China breaching the labor law which caps the proportion of temporary workers at 10%, according to ex-employees and internal company presentations, per The Information.
Former staff members told the website App... |
| Dec 9, 2020 | A Recurring Story about Apple Turning Blind Eye to Supplier Breaches of Chinese Labor Laws emerges, again
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Search | Six years ago to the month there was a report about an investigation by the BBC that resulted in a documentary that revealed the miserable working conditions of Apple workers in China and Indonesia. The documentary focused on two allegation... |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Step Up Or Break Up: The Challenge For Big Tech | So far in 2020, investing has been an almost risk-free venture if you put your money in Alphabet, Amazon AMZN , Apple AAPL , Facebook and Microsoft MSFT . Flush with money from the U.S. Federal Reserve and Japan’s SoftBank, the “Nasdaq whal... |
| Sep 10, 2019 | Apple And Foxconn Accused Of Violating Labor Laws To Build New iPhones | Maui Hermitanio, Tech Times 10 September 2019, 09:09 pm
New York-based China Labor Watch said Apple contractor for iPhone, Foxconn, hired too many dispatch or temporary workers in its facility in Henan province, China.
The labor watchdog is... |
| Sep 9, 2019 | China Labor Watch: Apple and Foxconn violated labor laws by using too many temporary workers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
(Reuters) — Apple and manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology on Monday rebutted allegations of lapses in people management leveled by... |
| Sep 9, 2019 | Apple Accused of Breaching Chinese Labor Laws | The discussion about tech labor conditions just got a little more substantial, as Apple — along with manufacturing partner Foxconn — has reportedly been violating Chinese labor laws in the production of their many devices.
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| Sep 9, 2019 | China Labor Watch Slams Apple for Foxconn's Labor Law Violations in Making iPhones prior to the Debut of iPhone 11
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Search | On paper, China Labor Watch is an organization that works closely with unions and labor groups to investigate and pressure large companies with deep pockets like Apple, Foxconn, Samsung, Walmart, Disney, Nike, Adidas to fix working conditio... |
| Sep 9, 2019 | China Labor Watch: Apple and Foxconn violated labor laws by using too many temporary workers | (Reuters) — Apple and manufacturing partner Foxconn Technology on Monday rebutted allegations of lapses in people management leveled by a non-profit monitor of worker rights, though confirmed they employed too many temporary workers.
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| Sep 9, 2019 | Apple, Foxconn caught breaking Chinese labor laws while making iPhones | Enlarge / A Foxconn facility.
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| Aug 11, 2019 | Amazon Supplier Recruits Young Schoolchildren In China To Make Alexa Devices | Naia Carlos, Tech Times 11 August 2019, 11:08 am
Amazon's Alexa devices have turned out to have controversial roots. Reports revealed that hundreds of schoolchildren are tapped to make these gadgets.
These children are reportedly made to wo... |
| Aug 9, 2019 | Amazon Echo devices are assembled by teenagers forced to work overtime hours | In a scathing report that shouldn’t shock anyone, a new expose from China Labor Watch reveals that a Foxconn-owned factory has been employing upwards of 1,500 teenagers (aged 16-18) as interns. Their task? Making speakers for Amazon.
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| Mar 6, 2019 | Apple’s 2019 supplier report shows progress on labor and health issues | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Though Apple designs its own products, it leaves both component supply and final assembly to third-party suppliers — companies that col... |
| Mar 6, 2019 | Apple’s 2019 supplier report shows progress on labor and health issues | Though Apple designs its own products, it leaves both component supply and final assembly to third-party suppliers — companies that collectively employ armies to serve Apple’s needs. Since those companies aren’t always compliant with local ... |
| Jun 10, 2018 | After report on ‘appalling’ conditions, Foxconn will investigate plant that makes Amazon devices | Foxconn Technology Group says it is investigating a factory it operates that makes Amazon devices, including Kindles, after an in-depth report by advocacy group China Labor Watch criticized its “appalling working conditions,” including exce... |
| Mar 9, 2018 | In an audit of supply chain partners, Apple found increased labor violations in 2017 | Enlarge / An iPhone assembly worker works with Apple supplier Pegatron in an image distributed by Apple.
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| Jan 16, 2018 | Apple Sent a Team to the Plant that makes iPhone Cases in China and found No Evidence of Violations of its Standards
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Search | Back in 2016 the Chinese labor union known as 'China Labor Watch' along with the BBC organized a vicious attack on Apple in documentaries titled "Inside the Machine," and "Broken Promises." The documentaries covered a wi... |
| Jan 15, 2018 | To truly honor Martin Luther King Jr., Apple should stop exploiting laborers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
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| Jan 15, 2018 | To truly honor Martin Luther King Jr., Apple should stop exploiting laborers | Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, celebrating the inspirational leader who died fighting to bring racial equality to the United States. Since 2015, Apple has commemorated this holiday by replacing its homepage with an MLK photo and quote... |
| Jun 21, 2017 | Apple's Confidential Seminar To Fight Against Leaks Just Got Leaked | Carl Velasco, Tech Times 21 June 2017, 08:06 pm
An hour-long audio recording culled from a secret briefing inside Apple recently leaked. Ironically, the briefing focused on Apple's efforts to stop leakers from pushing out internal informati... |
| May 31, 2017 | What is going on at Ivanka Trump’s Chinese shoe factory? | |
| Feb 15, 2015 | China Labor Union Slams Apple for Closing their Eyes to Real Ongoing Labor Problems at Chinese Plants & More
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Search | In December we posted a report titled "The BBC Report about Apple is motivated by Politics and Unions." The report showed that while the BBC thought that their documentary about Apple's Broken Promises was an original one, we made... |
| Feb 7, 2015 | TSMC Breaks Ground on New Plant for 10nm Processors Next Month and Foxconn is under Fire again for Recent Suicides
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Search | On Thursday we posted a report titled "TSMC will be Vying for Apple's A10 Processor Orders with Tempting new Technology, wherein we talked about TSMC's new InFO-WLP technology that could power high-definition video and faster file tran... |
| Sep 4, 2014 | Study alleges China iPhone factory riddled with human rights, safety violations | Simon Greig reader comments 137 with 76 posters participating
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Labor rights groups said Thursday that a Chinese factory producing iPhone and iPad parts was found "to ha... |
| Aug 14, 2014 | Apple bans two harmful chemicals in Chinese factory production | Mark Hawver, Tech Times 14 August 2014, 01:08 pm
Apple, which is less than a month away from introducing a new iPhone and iPad and possibly more items, has just decided to ban certain chemicals from the final production phase of iPhones and... |
| Jul 15, 2014 | Samsung suspends Chinese supplier after child labour accusations | Samsung Electronics has announced it is suspending supplies from a Chinese supplier pending an investigation, following accusations the supplier has been using child labour.
The revelation comes after the tech giant concluded an audit on ch... |
| Jul 14, 2014 | Samsung to cut ties with supplier over child labor | A watchdog investigation found another factory employing children
Well butter my ass and call me a biscuit—a watchdog organization has found more evidence of labor violations in a Chinese electronics manufacturing facility that supplies par... |
| Jul 14, 2014 | Was your Samsung Galaxy phone made by kids? | Samsung Electronics has suspended business ties with a Chinese factory after an activist group alleged the factory employed children who were forced to work as long as 11 hours a day.
The China Labor Watch alleges a factory called Shinyang ... |
| Jan 19, 2014 | Pegatron Settles with Family of Underage iPhone 5C Worker who Died in October
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Search | Reuters had reported on December 12 that the boy who died of pneumonia had apparently used someone else's ID to get a job at the Shanghai factory which makes Apple iPhone products. Days later the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published a report... |
| Dec 20, 2013 | Top 10 tech scandals in 2013 | Because we all love us some good schadenfreude
I love me some Silicon Valley drama. I think it’s because I love startups and innovative new products and gadgets—and then there’s another, darker part of me that’s eagerly waiting with happy s... |
| Dec 6, 2013 | EU Commission Raids Samsung Offices + new Scathing Report Claims more Labor Violations at Galaxy Phone Plant
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Search | In September 2013, CLW sent an investigator into Samkwang Science and Technology in Dongguan, China to work on the production line for two weeks. Producing cell phone covers, phone screens, and other parts for Samsung, the Samkwang factory ... |
| Sep 9, 2013 | Why Apple's new iPhones could turn off consumers | (MoneyWatch) Apple (AAPL) is expected on Tuesday to announce two new iPhone models. One device, the 5S, is supposed to improve on the iPhone 5 with a biometric fingerprint sensor for security, faster processor and possibly a bigger screen. ... |
| Sep 5, 2013 | Factory making iPhone 5C guilty of labor violations | Wtf, Apple? Just wtf?
You ready to play a game? It’s called “China, Russia, or Florida.” But there’s a catch: everybody loses.
Yet another one of Apple’s suppliers is in the spotlight for labor violations. But there are a couple of twists i... |
| Sep 5, 2013 | Chinese Factory Making iPhone 5C Parts Violates Labor Laws
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Search | The report further states that many of the violations raised in CLW's report also contradict the codes of conduct of both Apple and Jabil Circuit. Despite half a decade of outside investigations and self-reporting on myriad labor abuse thro... |
| Aug 14, 2013 | Brazil suing Samsung over factory worker abuses | Prosecutors say workers were forced to work 10-15 hours a day and many sustained injuries
Just weeks after an undercover investigation found rampant abuse and exploitation of workers at several Pegatron facilities (one of Apple’s component ... |
| Aug 2, 2013 | Why "USA-made" tech isn't the big deal you think it is | How tech companies are reaching for a "USA-made" label when it's all bullshit
Now sailing under the Google flag of freedom, Motorola unveiled its much talked about Moto X phone Thursday afternoon. It’s the phone that’s supposed to... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | Apple under fire again for supplier worker abuses from China Labor Watch | China Labor Watch, a New York-based watchdog group, has made new allegations against Apple supplier Pegatron, including that it employs underage workers, gives employees excessive hours, and maintains poor working and living conditions.
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| Jul 29, 2013 | A Scathing Report from China Labor Watch Claims that Apple Supplier Pegatron Violates Labor Rights to Gain Contracts
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Search | CLW's investigations revealed at least 86 labor rights violations, including 36 legal violations and 50 ethical violations. The violations fall into 15 categories: dispatch labor abuse, hiring discrimination, women's rights violations, unde... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | Apple has China labor problems -- again | (MoneyWatch) It has been more than three years since Apple's (AAPL) labor problems first become major news. Now, in what has become another of the natural cycles of the world, the company is under fire from a non-profit for "deplorable... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | Investigation of Apple supplier reveals rampant abuses | Unsafe working conditions, abysmal pay, forced overtime, underage workers, and so much more
At this point, it seems like a safe bet to just assume that all Apple products are made by slave labor. You just got a new fancy pants iPhone 5? Con... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | A New China Labor Watch Report Confirms Plastic iPhone
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Search | The second reference found in the report states that "Today's work is to paste protective film on the iPhone's plastic back cover to prevent it from being scratched on assembly lines. This iPhone model with a plastic cover will soon be... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | Plastic Casing For Apple’s Low-Cost iPhone Gets Confirmed In A Supplier Responsibility Investigation | Apple’s plans to release a low-cost iPhone got a solid confirmation from a new report by China Labor Watch this morning. The unlikely source of the new product info was an undercover investigation into Pegatron to shed light on working cond... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | No bathroom breaks: iPhone factory in China accused of egregious labor violations | A Pegatron factory in Shanghai, China.
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| Jul 29, 2013 | Watchdog group simultaneously slams Apple working conditions, confirms cheaper iPhone | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
China Labor Watch released a new report today on the working conditions of laborers at Apple supplier Pegatron. Its conclusion? They su... |
| Jul 29, 2013 | Watchdog group simultaneously slams Apple working conditions, confirms cheaper iPhone | China Labor Watch released a new report today on the working conditions of laborers at Apple supplier Pegatron. Its conclusion? They suck: too many hours, poor conditions, and underage workers.
But the report also leaks the first undeniably... |
| Dec 15, 2012 | Child Labor Found at Samsung Plant Again Despite Denials
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Search | CLW's investigator met at least three girls who were under the age of 16, which is the legal definition of child labor in China. China Labor Watch's investigator confirmed that the girls were underage through personal IDs as shown below.
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| Nov 27, 2012 | New Report Finds Samsung Failing at Labor Treatment in China
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| Oct 8, 2012 | I Won’t Buy Apple Products Until The Company Treats Overseas Workers Fairly | On Friday, employees at one of the two Chinese plants that produces iPhones walked off the factory floor – the latest in a string of protests surrounding Apple’s manufacturing operations. For Apple, stakes go beyond the smooth operation of ... |
| Oct 5, 2012 | iPhone 5 assembly lines allegedly shut down in Foxconn strike | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Thousands of Foxconn factory workers went on strike this week, according to China Labor Watch, saying the manufacturer turned a blind e... |
| Mar 18, 2012 | The crimes of the Chinese, Foxconn, Mike Daisey and ourselves | Editor: This weekend, esteemed radio program "This American Life" aired "Retraction" -- a stunning refutation of its most popular episode ever -- "Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory", which aired on January 6. A ... |
| Dec 28, 2011 | LG Display hit by Chinese employee strike | This week, an estimated 8,000 employees at LG Display's Nanjing, China production facility went on strike due to inequality in year-end bonus compensation. The protesters, all Chinese employees, complained that their bonuses were one-sixth ... |
| Apr 25, 2011 | The Crimes of the Chinese, Foxconn, Steve Jobs and ourselves | I had no idea what I was going to see when relatives took me out in Washington DC to see The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs starring -- exclusively -- Mike Daisey. I didn't expect a political polemic. I'm still not totally sure what to... |
| Feb 18, 2010 | High-Tech Sweat Shops: Is Apple the Next Nike? | Remember all the bad press that Nike received over employing sweatshop factories in Asia? The drama even reached the U.S. Supreme Court, all over the conditions in factories that made its products. Well, Apple (AAPL) is now on track to show... |
| Amazon Echo devices are assembled by teenagers forced to work overtime hours | In a scathing report that shouldn’t shock anyone, a new expose from China Labor Watch reveals that a Foxconn-owned factory has been employing upwards of 1,500 teenagers (aged 16-18) as interns. Their task? Making speakers for Amazon.
While ... |
