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Supplier Responsibility at Apple
- houseabsolute 16y agoEver notice that these factory images always have as their focal point a pretty or even beautiful Asian woman? They're definitely selling something . . .
- c1sc0 16y agoEver notice how hot most women are when walking around in, say, downtown Shanghai? ;-) Now, back to the point: of course they are selling something. An investment in things with no net short-term R.O.I. like environmental & social responsibility programmes deserves to be seen.
- houseabsolute 16y agoRegrettably I have not yet been. I guess I should go.
- nailer 16y ago"To monitor compliance, we conduct onsite audits, approve corrective action plans, and verify implementation. " This means nothing in itself. My wife has worked fairly extensively in the fashion industry and according to her colleagues there's still major UK retailers where things are still being made by children (whose families depend on the income, BTW). Effective inspections must be: * unannounced * unguided (ie, allow the inspector to visit any part of the factory they wish). Which Apple's don't seem to be. Otherwise: * Workers get a crib sheet with answers they give to auditors. * Anyone who shouldn't be there is let off for the day, making up the time before of after the auditor visits. * Production outputting chemicals into the environment is ramped up prior to the event, then shut down during it (the dye plants temporarily stopped dumping into rovers during the Beijing Olympics).