An Indian iPhone plant run by Foxconn was temporarily closed down back in 2021 due to major health infractions in...

Indian iPhone plant found ‘highly hazardous’ to worker health::An Indian iPhone plant run by Foxconn was temporarily closed down back in 2021 due to major health infractions in…

  • Mossy Feathers (She/They)English
    7•1 year ago

    Wow, I hadn’t exactly expected to read that Apple was actively involved in trying to improve the plant’s conditions. It’s still not good that it got that bad in first place, but them having standards for how the workers are treated and housed in their supplier code is probably a lot better than most companies.

    • OtterEnglish
      11•1 year ago

      A lot of companies have ‘standards’ on the books, but there’s more to it than that. I haven’t read the article yet, but sometimes a company will create standards but not actually enforce/check up on them, or worse they’ll demand so much from the factories that the standards couldn’t be met even if the factories tried