Thursday, February 2, 2012

This article that was read for this blog post was about the horrible working conditions for people who make apple products. We all love apple products they are fun easy and convenient. But what apple doesn't talk about is the making of them. In the article it says "the workers assembling iPones, iPads and other devices often labor in harsh conditions, according to employees inside those plants, worker advocated and documents published by companies themselves." This is what the article is mainly about. In many of the plants are explosions because the workers work with hazardous chemicals. The workers are paid low income and they have tight space. The apartments are very small and in one case a three bedroom apartment fit up to ad least 20 people. The living environments are very crowded. Inspectors come to check out the plants and report back to apple what they've found. Apple claims they try to make changes and corrections but that is untrue. The companies care more about making the money than making the improvements to the plants. In a recent explosion a man named Mr.Lai Xiadong died. Th workers were working with aluminum dust and an explosion happens. Aluminum dust seems to be many of the cases of explosions. Even though the only thing it takes to keep from explosions happen when using aluminum dust is air ventilation. He was in the hospital for two days and then he died. His family couldn't even recognize them. The plants are unfair and unsafe to workers and people and companies do not care! Change and corrections need to be made immediately...

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