Apple's record profit paid for in blood

Thanks to enormous sales figures for its iPads and iPhones in the last three months Apple has posted the largest profit in the history of the company. But Apple also bears responsibility for the exploitative working conditions at some of its locations, the liberal daily Kurier points out: "The record profit has been paid for with blood. 'No more iSlaves', students in Hongkong in 2011 chanted protesting against the working conditions at Chinese Apple plants. Foxconn with its 1.2 million workforce is Apple's most notorious supplier, where there have been repeated cases of employees dying - voluntarily and involuntarily. ... Most people are not aware that many of the things that we cherish - we're talking about flat screen TVs, notebooks and co. here - are produced at Asian factories where there are no labour laws. It's time devices were tagged with labels not just telling us how little electricity they consume, but also that they come from factories where human rights and labour laws are taken seriously."

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