'Forced to stand for 24 hours, suicide nets, toxin exposure and explosions': Inside the Chinese fact

[ZeroDay]

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092277/Apple-Poor-working-conditions-inside-Chinese-factories-making-iPads.html

Working excessive overtime without a single day off during the week, living together in crowded dormitories and standing so long that their legs swell and they can hardly walk after a 24-hour shift.

These are the lives some employees claim they live at Apple’s manufacturing centres in China, where the firm’s suppliers allegedly wrongly dispose of hazardous waste and produce improper records.

Almost 140 workers at a supplier in China were injured two years ago using a poisonous chemical to clean iPhone screens - and two explosions last year killed four people while injuring more than 75.

 

[ZeroDay]

I feel like putting my Mac mini And my iPad on Ebay. But Foxconn are used by many, many different companies. I feel like I'm in a bit of a dilemma at the moment.

 

[aztony]

When parasitic capitalism meets un-quenched consumerism the inevitable follows.