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What can we as consumers do to pressure Apple to have better working conditions?
by Arete314159 5y ago
What can we as consumers do to pressure Apple to have better working conditions?
- me_me_mu_mu 5y agoYou could vote with your wallet it’s literally all you have to do lol.
- petermcneeley 5y agoI dont think voting with your wallet was how any of the labour issues of the 20th century were solved.
- me_me_mu_mu 5y agoWell sure, then, just keep feeding the beast. Good luck.
- Den-vr 5y agoI'd suggest that the best thing we as consumers could do is speak to our state legislators about creating requirements for cellular devices to be sold in the state. Apple could do better, or they might just try to counter the legislative effort. Either way costs are imposed on Apple for evil. When it's less expensive to do better than it is to be evil, consumers will see change. Just look at what California legislators have been able to do to vehicles.
- Arete314159 5y agoI love this idea for blue states. For red states, it would be DOA.
- Den-vr 5y agoYou might be surprised at the amount of bipartisan support you would find for legislation that favors American manufacturing and morality. The opposition in red states would be from an enlightened industrialist's view that even these terrible jobs are still jobs that lift Indian families out of poverty and that this is part of the hard road to the middle class. Furthermore, this proposed legislation might harm constituents by increasing the prices they pay for phones. That said, you really only need one state in the entire country. With one state the options available to Apple become: eat the fines, change, refuse to sell in that state, or create an entirely new SKU for compliant devices.
- dghughes 5y agoLike bring up to Amazon level conditions or actually something humane?
- willcipriano 5y agoNot defending Amazon or anything, but bringing factories like this up to Amazon warehouse standards would be a massive win for labor globally. These conditions are the norm.
- vanusa 5y agoAn immediate month-long boycott of all stores would be a good place to start.