Monday, February 28, 2011

Fired 30 intoxicated in he China factory components for Apple

Factory workers Wintek Taiwanese company, which supplies components to Apple, and in which there was a collective poisoning by excessive exposure to a chemical, reported that the factory now is refusing to renew their contracts, said today the official journal China Daily. Those affected are apparently thirty of the 137 workers who were poisoned last year by exposure to n-hexane, as a hundred of them left after receiving employment and compensation of between 12,000 and 21,000 dollars and sign a clause exempting Wintek to pay future medical expenses.


Those who remained, fearing precisely that their health problems worsen over time and that compensation is insufficient to pay medical bills, complain that when their contracts expire the company refuses to renew for no reason. "I do not want to go, what will happen if my health gets worse? The compensation is a drop in the ocean," says Wang Yulian, one of the victims, whose contract ended last Friday, day 25.

Yanqiong Yang, another factory worker affected by intoxication and whose contract expires on April 1, have pointed to the same newspaper that the company has also reported that there remain in the factory. Lawyers surveyed by China Daily in principle explain the attitude of the factory is not illegal, but it might have problems in the future if, as feared by the workers, their health worsens.

Apple acknowledged in its latest report on activities in 2010 that 137 workers at this supplier in Suzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, were poisoned by n-hexane, so that the multinational apple took action against his partner and banned the use of the chemical. Exposure to high levels of n-hexane may cause peripheral nerve damage and eventually, the spinal cord causing muscle weakness, paralysis and even male infertility.

Wintek factory produced parts for the iPhone, Apple's flagship touch phone. Last year, another member of Apple's Taiwanese factories in China, Foxconn, which manufactures components for the multinational other iPhone or iPad, a wave of suicides among workers in plants of the Taiwanese firm in Shenzhen, southern country.

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