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Foxconn reconnaît avoir employé des mineurs en Chine - 17 octobre 2012
Le groupe taïwanais Foxconn, un des grands sous-traitants d’Apple, Nokia et Sony, a reconnu employer dans une usine chinoise des jeunes de 14 ans, confirmant ainsi des informations d’une organisation de défense des droits des travailleurs. L’ONG China Labor Watch, basée aux Etats-Unis, et les médias chinois ont rapporté (...)
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Foxconn : des milliers de salariés chinois se mettent en grève - 6 octobre 2012
Les cadences élevées imposées aux salariés chinois travaillant pour Foxconn et les coups de canif réguliers à leurs droits ont conduit plusieurs milliers d’employés à se mettre en grève pendant plusieurs heures vendredi. Malgré les efforts du manufacturier taïwanais de faire bonne figure, la situation sociale dans ses usines (...)
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Apple hit by China Foxconn factory report - 30 mars 2012
An independent investigation has found "significant issues" among working practices at Chinese plants making Apple iPhones and iPads.
The US Fair Labor Association (FLA) was asked by Apple to investigate working conditions at Foxconn after reports of long hours and poor safety.
The FLA says it has now secured (...)
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Apple’s factories in China are breaking employment laws, audit finds - 30 mars 2012
Foxconn pledges more staff and living wage after public investigation reveals long hours, low pay and safety failings
An audit of Apple’s Chinese factories details "serious and pressing" concerns over excessive working hours, unpaid overtime, health and safety failings, and management interference in trade unions. (...)
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Apple faces its ’Nike moment’ over working conditions in Chinese factories - 21 février 2012
Apple contractor Foxconn raises wages by 25% after reports of long hours for the hundreds of thousands of staff in China
Apple is facing a "Nike moment" which hit the shoe company in the 1990s when its use of cheap labour in the far east was revealed, one of the inspectors of Apple’s Chinese suppliers has said. (...)
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Apple’s ‘Nike moment’ over Foxconn iPad factory conditions - 21 février 2012
Conditions in factories owned by Apple’s contractor Foxconn have forced the iPad-maker to confront problems with staff welfare, an inspector has said.
Inaes Kaempfer, an auditor with the Fair Labor Assocation (FLA), told ABC News’s Nightline that publicity surrounding suicides and accidents at the Foxconn plant (...)
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Apple’s Foxconn Auditing Group ‘Surrounded With Controversy,’ Critics Say - 15 février 2012
Following ongoing public outcry and organized protests at Apple stores last week, Apple has announced that an organization called the Fair Labor Association is conducting independent assessments of worker conditions inside the factories of Foxconn, its manufacturing partner in China.
The FLA audit began this (...)
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Apple choisit une ONG controversée pour défendre ses sous-traitants iPhone - 15 février 2012
Il n’aura pas fallu vingt-quatre heures pour que les premières critiques tombent. Lundi 13 février, Apple avait annoncé que la Fair Labor Association (FLA), une ONG basée aux Etats-Unis, allait débuter des inspections dans la principale usine de son sous-traitant Foxconn, en Chine. Une réponse directe aux critiques (...)
