“In a radio interview on the syndicated show Conversations on Health Care, Apple COO Jeff Williams said that the reason Apple has come under attack for the use of child labor in its supply chain is that the company actively goes out looking for it,” Ben Lovejoy reports for 9to5Mac. “Other companies, he said, simply keep their heads down.”
No company wants to talk about child labor. They don’t want to be associated with that. We shine a light on it. We go out and search for cases where an underage worker is found in a factory somewhere and then we take drastic actions with the supplier and the labor groups to try and make a change. Then we report it publicly every year. We take a lot of heat for that. But we think the only way to make change is to go hit it head-on and talk about it. — Apple COO Jeff Williams
Lovejoy reports, “Apple noted in its annual Supplier Responsibility Progress Report that it tries to work with suppliers to ensure compliance with the company’s standards, and drops those which refuse to cooperate.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Apple does more in this area than any other major CE maker; likely more than all other companies combined.
Apple Inc.’s Supplier responsibility webpages are here:
www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/
“ROOT” it out
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/rout+out
Verb 1. rout out – get or find by searching; “What did you rout out in the library?”
root out = remove, as in dig it up and remove it by the root.
rout out = search.
There is also the question of (as always) unintended consequences. If families depend on child labor to feed themselves, have you not done them more harm by rooting out child labor?
Move manufacturing to US. Time saved.
Fred…..Flintstone I presume?
Such is the leadership of a great company. Way to go Apple.
Apple absorbs the anger of people the world over. The liberals bash it because they assume *must* be evil because it’s hugely successful and from the USA. (That’s two strikes against for liberals using Samsung devices in the USA). It takes it from our government (left and right) that want to stick their prying fingers into their technology (who cares about privacy and our constitution!!) it takes it from Wall Street as we all know. This is what you get when you think different and as a result show the world how it’s done. Nothing but jealous spite. Makes you wanna give up trying to do anything extraordinary.
shut up or say something intelligent not the dribble you’re spouting. Sheesh.