Apple's supply chain problem again

In early August, from green jiangnan, public environmental research center, friends of nature, ring five environmental group friends of science and technology and natural university jointly issued "who in the pollution in taihu lake basin?" Research report, the 114mm carbon seamless steel pipe china suppliers exposure of foxconn, ding xin electronics two apple suppliers located in jiangsu kunshan factory a large amount of sewage, then the local regulators for the two companies, and other electronics makers.

As early as in August 2011, the five environmental groups against apple suppliers have seven months of investigation, found that apple 27 suspected supplier in China there are serious environmental problems, ASME B16.9 Butt Welded reducing tee such as heavy metal exceeds bid nearly 200 times, nearby residents disease rate and so on.

And China enterprise news reporter noticed that recently about not only the problem of pollution of apple's supply chain system, reports of labor problems has caused quite a stir.Also in early August this year, China labor watch groups have accused apple suppliers and united technologies exist to recognize 86 labor violations. The 86 cases of irregular event, 45 degree short radius pipe fitting elbows there are 36 cases broke the law, while 56 does not comply with the code of ethics. Main content is to seize employee id, poor staff living environment, child labor, pay low wages, forced overtime, etc.

For labor issues, China labor watch said in a statement, the violations of pegatron is serious than foxconn.According to reporter understanding, "more than" foxconn refers to March 2012, the nonprofit fair labor association pointed out that foxconn has dozens of serious violations of labor rights, such as overtime work time is too long, unpaid wages, etc. According to the report, in the three Chinese factory of foxconn, more than 60% of employees said its salary can meet the basic life need.

Chinese enterprises newspaper reporters in the Chinese labor research center offers a titled "the apple supplier squeezing labor - ten supplier survey data found that ten of apple suppliers is common problems such as excessive overtime, working conditions, high labor intensity, poor food and accommodation. Report also shows that the problems exist in the supply of apple all factories, rather than in a factory.