This article is about how companies go to china to make apple products, instead of staying in the United States. They know that the United States has more laws, and they can’t work people as much as they can in china. They work more than 60 hours a week at a company called Foxconn. Employees who were late had to write confession letters. The problem is that the workers are working in an unsafe environment, sometimes deadly.
One man named Lia Xiaodong wanted to work for manufacturing companies. So he went to Chengdu, a city in China of 12 million. The city was rapidly becoming one of the worlds most important manufacturing hubs.
Lia wanted to work at Foxconn Technology, which was Chinas largest exporter with 1.2 million workers. When Lia landed a job repairing machines he noticed that many things were wrong, like the almost blinding lights, the shifts that ran 24 hours a day, workers sitting in backless chairs. The employees were being miss treated and were being worked to hard in bad conditions.
Foxconn was in charge of a team that maintained machines that polished iPad cases, which made the area loud and hazy with aluminum dust. This dust created an explosion killing 4 people and 18 injured. Lia was killed. However just 2 weeks before the aluminum dust explosion a group in Hong Kong made a report warning of unsafe conditions at the Chengdu plant, including problems with aluminum dust. Workers also reported the problem of poor ventilation and inadequate personal protective equipment.
I really think that the owners of the Foxconn Factory should be fired! They work people to hard and the are not even making sure that the environment is safe for them. I believe that the owners care to much about money that their workers safety. However I would NEVER stop buying Apple products because of this. My reason is because too many workers our out their working hard making these things so I will always support them. I just think that they should get treated better and paid more.
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