Apple: China Labor Watch posts open letter to the CEO of Apple on Facebook

Apple is the first company in its sector to be open to the code and investigations of the Fair Labor Association (see our dispatch No.  120031).  With this letter, as an answer to the announcement by the company, based in Cupertino, CA, that it wished to better control its suppliers, the NGO, which publishes numerous case studies on working conditions in multinational companies’ Chinese factories, wants to point to the company’s liability in the situation of its subcontracting staff.  CLW says that Apple’s business model, based on maximum pressure over subcontractors, is the problem, not the subcontractors themselves. 
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t wished to better control its suppliers, the NGO, which publishes numerous case studies on working conditions in multinational companies’ Chinese factories, wants to point to the company’s liability in the situation of its subcontracting staff. CLW says that Apple’s business model, based on maximum pressure over subcontractors, is the problem, not the subcontractors themselves.

With this letter published on the biggest social network in the world, the CLW, which claims that it was unable to t

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