Apple is implicated in a report released Thursday by Chinese NGOs to protect the environment for failures in the chain of manufacture of certain components of the iPad and iPhone. According to these NGOs, Apple came in last place, out of 29 multinational companies in the technology sector, a survey targeting the health risks at work and problems of industrial pollution in China."Apple has not fulfilled its commitments on three aspects of its social responsibilities on suppliers," says the report whose lead author is the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs, an independent organization based in Beijing. "With Apple's suppliers, workers were poisoned and remained disabled, with groups and neighborhoods have been polluted and there have been serious violations of the rights, interests and dignity of workers," added the organism, video support.
NOKIA, SONY ERICSSON AND CRITICAL The study is expected to reflect more than a year of investigation of some thirty NGOs on actions being taken by multinationals to manufacture on Chinese soil, the basic components of their products. The report welcomes Hewlett-Packard, BT, Alcatel-Lucent, Vodafone, Samsung, Toshiba, Sharp and Hitachi, which have taken action against abuses or to improve the supervision of the work of their suppliers.
He criticized the inaction on the other hand, Nokia, LG, SingTel, Sony and Ericsson, who get bad marks in the study. The report cites a sentence from Apple boss Steve Jobs, when asked by a visitor on social responsibility of multinational: "You should learn. We are doing more than any other company on the planet," replied M .
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