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Blue_arrow 
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Subject: Apple accused of ignoring labor abuses that can kill
Under-age workers
Employees work excessive overtime, in some cases seven days a week, and live in crowded dorms. Some say they stand so long that their legs swell until they can hardly walk.

Under-age workers have helped build Apple’s products, and the company’s suppliers have improperly disposed of hazardous waste and falsified records, according to company reports and advocacy groups that, within China, are often considered reliable, independent monitors.

More troubling, the groups say, is some suppliers’ disregard for workers’ health. Two years ago, 137 workers at an Apple supplier in eastern China were injured after they were ordered to use a poisonous chemical to clean iPhone screens.



The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws.

Two people were killed immediately, and over a dozen others hurt


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46143670/ns/business-us_business/




i bet every one of you that hate keystone pipeline, natural gas fracking, drive a SUV and have a Apple straped to your azz


 

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vn_nnanji 
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I bet you have a strap on in yours.

 

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I liek bacon

 

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Subject: Apple accused of ignoring labor abuses that can kill
Blue_arrow posted:
drive a SUV and have a Apple straped to your azz




For some reason this has to go into my sig.

 

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