Workers at Apple factory toil for 10-hour shifts in loud, toxic workshops before returning to filthy dormitories with cold showers, rights group claims…(Enjoy Your IPhones!!)
By TRACY YOU
DAILYMAIL.COM
17 January 2018
Workers at a massive Chinese factory which produces parts for Apple have to work 10-hour shifts under harsh conditions and are not given proper overtime pay or adequate safety protections, a labour rights group has claimed.
Migrant workers, paid as little as 1,950 yuan (£210) a month, are exposed to toxic chemicals at their workshops before returning to filthy eight-person dormitories with cold showers, said the same report.
Catcher, the Apple supplier located in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, has denied the allegations; while Apple said its investigation team ‘found no evidence that Catcher was violating our standards’.
The allegations have been made by New York-based China Labor Watch, a not-for-profit organization which conducts assessments on the labour conditions of factories in China.
It came 10 days after a worker from another Chinese factory producing Apple’s iPhone allegedly died after jumping from a 12-storey window.
The charges highlight the difficulty of managing complex global supply chains – even for companies like Apple that have publicly embraced ethical sourcing as a business priority.
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