Even though Apple’s last report on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) among its suppliers, which includes a very thorough list of the said companies, was of unprecedented clarity for the Californian firm, which recently joined the Fair Labor Association (FLA, see our dispatch No. 120031), pressure over the electronics manufacturer remains high. Therefore, as an answer to criticism coming from the American media (notably the National Public Radio and the New York Times) throughout January, to the petitions (as one posted by an Apple user from Washington, DC, which has received nearly 200,000 signatures) and to the China Labor Watch NGO’s stances (see our dispatch No. 120085), Apple and the FLA had to reassert their will to improve working conditions in the plants making the famous iPhones and iPads, where a wave of suicides occurred in 2010.
to the petitions (as one posted by an Apple user from Washington, DC, which has received nearly 200,000 signatures) and to the China Labor Watch NGO’s stances (see our dispatch No. 120085), Apple and the FLA had to reassert their will to improve working conditions in the plants making the famous iPhones and iPads, where a wave of suicides occurred in 2010.
With the FLA inspections starting in the workshops of Foxconn, supplier of Apple and other giants in the sector, in Shenzhen, on Monday, Fe
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