Why Is Foxconn Violate Labor Rights Of Workers?

The Taiwan-based Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. or better known as Foxconn has been accused of violating labor rights of workers for many years and the Apple situation is no exception. The employer keeps its hard working people in overcrowded dormitories run by military-like security forces. Because these people work excessive hours, one would expect them to be paid well maybe even overtime but that is not the case. Often hard work goes with no compensation for overtime, which even yet the company claims is done voluntarily, like the already excessive hours weren’t enough. Management of these terrible conditioned workplaces controls every aspect of workers’ lives including interfering with their personal privacy. Reports indicate up to 24 people …show more content…
While dealing with deadly conditions workers are assembling iPhones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions. These problems lead to suicides from the exact building they work on and that says something that taking their own life would be better than working in those conditions slaving away. Groups of workers have indicated that some suppliers’ disregard for workers’ health. Not only are suicides a common thing at these facilities but deadly safety hazards are present including poisonous chemicals to clean iPhone screen and explosions at iPad factories killing multiple workers. Apple can employ anywhere in the world to do this work but they do it at Foxconn because of the advantages they take of workers. These hard working people are building expensive Apple products that many of use by year to year. As most know, Apple products are one of the more expensive on the market that most certainly isn’t because of the benefits it gives the workers for making their products. How you expect these workers to continue to work if they have to continually fear for their …show more content…
Maybe not every single product they make overseas will touch the States but Apple should comply since they are based here. The reason they don’t do business here is simply because it doesn’t pay. Here in the U.S. we have a proud tradition of unions and oversight boards that work to prevent such abuses as child labor, denial of overtime pay, exposure to toxic substances, and stiflingly hot working environments. All things above mentioned are present in the shops overseas; I think that the U.S. factories in foreign countries should abide by U.S. domestic laws. Also, the foreign-owned factories such as, Foxconn for Apple, in foreign countries that sell products in the US should also abide by those laws in order to protect its workers. This should include OSHA laws, labor laws, and even the right to unionize. Any product sold in the here in the States should be made in accordance with US