Posted on 06/27/2006 9:31:53 AM PDT by DesScorp
"Apple's all about justice, recycling and all that good stuff, so why are its iPods being assembled in Chinese sweatshops?
The U.K.'s Sunday Mail took a look inside the factories where iPods are assembled and found employees work 15-hour days and are paid $50 a month - "miserable even by China's standards."
(Excerpt) Read more at networkworld.com ...
Probably. I received one as a Christmas gift and it stopped working last week.
If it comes from China and a few other countries it's pretty likely that it came from sweatshops along with most other goods from those countries.
No, but I beat the crap out of my neighbors kid and took his.
Gee, seems like we've already discussed this a few times.....
No, it came from Target.
Well said. Better working in a sweatshop than carting nightsoil around for the commune.
Total CRAP story, most of all China made stuff comes from "sweat shops".
Total bozos!
Al Gore is on the board of directors of Apple. I wonder what action he's taking on this.
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