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Technology Stocks : Apple Tankwatch

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To: rnsmth who wrote (15733)	1/22/2012 10:55:10 PM
From: zax	Read Replies (2) of 32692

>> I would like to see some of those other companies to join Apple as participating companies with the Fair Labor Association! As would I! Its nice Apple has just this last week decided to become the very first company in the electronics industry to join FLA. Perhaps this new religion (or is it a PR coup? ... after all, Apple is so good at these things) - will allow Apple to somehow mitigate the damage of future headlines of the nature of stories like Foxconn employee exposure to toxic chemicals, suicides, workers roused at 3AM to work slave shifts for weeks on end, explosions killing iPad workers and teenage labor for pennies a day as a result. I did notice that Nokia has allowed third-party assessments of their facilites since at least 2008; even having recognized unions in their Chinese manufacturing facilities. Nokia even has has a fairly clear code of conduct posted for ages. Its so nice to see Apple work on their image and practices here, even if it did take such a series of embarrasments to make it happen. Kudos. At home, however, perhaps the DOJ and Apple employee lawsuits might bring some improvement in behavior.

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