Apple is busy trying to insulate itself from the growing tides of complaints about its links to Foxconn. Currently, attack is the preferred mode, claiming anger at unfounded reports. The problem is, they are founded in years of commentary. Once again, a large company has been found out to be words rather than action when it comes to supplier labour standards. The next phase will be assurances of stricter monitoring, but until Apple takes seriously that monitoring, and is prepared to scrap contracts for non-fulfilment of labour standards, firms like Foxconn will cut corners.
And when
you read this, you know that then problem is very deep indeed:
"Apple never cared about anything other than increasing product quality and decreasing production cost," said Li Mingqi, a former Foxconn Technology manager at the Chengdu factory. "Workers' welfare has nothing to do with their interests."
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