These are Wintek employees and they're angry at Apple for supplying Wintek with jobs. I'm not saying these employees don't have a legitimate complaint about working conditions, but aren't they complaining to the wrong company? It wouldn't seem as though Apple were at direct fault here. When a larger company contracts to a smaller company to build parts, it's the smaller company that has the responsibility of managing it's employees in whatever way they seem fit to get the job done. This seems so odd for employees to appeal to the company that ordered the parts.

Not really too odd, I'd say the American companies have more at stake regarding working conditions in factories than Chinese or Taiwanese companies. Think about the embarrassment Nike and Gap received when their factory conditions were revealed.

Now it's true that this isn't technically an Apple factory but that doesn't really matter unless they're trying to bring a legal case against Apple. All these employees have to do is change public opinion on Apple to gain some leverage. It's a pretty standard strategy: go after the people with the money.

Funny how they went after Apple and not Nokia, Motorola and Samsung. I guess they figured they would get better press from trashing Apple, just like Green Peace does.

This probably wont amount to much unless the mainstream press starts spouting off about it. In the meantime, I would just ignore them. Let them go after the other companies.

...Nokia, Samsung and Motorola don't maintain "Corporate Ethics Standards" with regard to treatment of their suppliers' employee treatment?

Its not about getting rights to workers, its about sueing so the lawyers make money. Apple is not the factory, only a customer. Do these people want Apple to take its orders elsewhere causing more layoffs??

PS. Isn't this a chinese company?? Nuff said. :-)

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These people should be happy they have jobs. Who cares if they're chained to their workbenches, forced to work 16 hours a day, must sleep with the executives, and are whipped for not being productive enough. A job is a job!

The issue here is Apple staying silent, hoping it goes away. They're just a bunch of posers on this.

If you've got a corporate ethics policy on this, there's a reason. You felt, as a company, you're suppliers should treat their workers under some set of rules. But now they're ignoring it completely.

They need to come out and make a statement, one way or the other. If the place is abiding by their standards, say that. If it isn't, say that and demand action or you'll move your business elsewhere (and this will hurt the business owners more than the workers). But staying quiet just implies to the world that Wintek is guilty, but we don't want to do anything for fear of ruining a business partnership.

Is it possible for Apple to move there business elsewhere? They need millions of specially tailored screens and i don't think its easy to move to another factory.

Poor labor conditions in COMMUNIST China? But how can that be......

Lol. People working in "acceptable" conditions in China is like finding air on the moon. They're lucky they don't have tanks rolling over them.