Tomorrow is going to organize protest actions network MakeITFair at 16 locations in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Intiativtagarna to the argues that Apple should not protest takes its responsibility for the employees of subcontractors who manufacture Iphones and Ipads.
Among the abuses which it highlights are the suicides and suicide attempts that were made by Foxcomm last year, as well as the poisoning is reported to have hit the 137 workers at Wintek underleverantörern when they washed the screens on the Ipad, and Iphone screens. Those affected will not yet have received no compensation.
-If Apple takes its own code of conduct seriously so should it open up the dialogue with local labour rights organisations. It should also use its influence as a buyer to improve purchase processes so that more workers, the possibility of a fixed work, says Charlie Aronsson on Fair Trade Center, in a press release. Fair Trade Center is one of the organisations that are part of the makeITfair.
In Sweden, Swedish Church Youths to carry out a demonstration outside the Macoteket of Black Brook Street in Uppsala and Stockholm, the Fair Trade Centre participate at an event in ABF-huset.