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Investigation: Apple Failing To Protect Chinese Factory Workers 201

Posted by samzenpus from the HR-needs-to-be-better dept.
mrspoonsi writes with the findings of an investigation into working conditions at a factory that makes Apple products. Poor treatment of workers in Chinese factories which make Apple products has been discovered by an undercover BBC Panorama investigation. Filming on an iPhone 6 production line showed Apple's promises to protect workers were routinely broken. It found standards on workers' hours, ID cards, dormitories, work meetings and juvenile workers were being breached at the Pegatron factories. Apple said it strongly disagreed with the programme's conclusions. Exhausted workers were filmed falling asleep on their 12-hour shifts at the Pegatron factories on the outskirts of Shanghai. One undercover reporter, working in a factory making parts for Apple computers, had to work 18 days in a row despite repeated requests for a day off. Another reporter, whose longest shift was 16 hours, said: "Every time I got back to the dormitories, I wouldn't want to move. Even if I was hungry I wouldn't want to get up to eat. I just wanted to lie down and rest. I was unable to sleep at night because of the stress."

Comment Re:EEE (Score 1) 217

by Hognoxious (#48629997) Attached to: What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve?

X-soft need the upcoming iDildo API functionality because, well, marketing say so.

The beancounters say IT can cross-charge it to underhands or overheads or something like that.

It's as sure as green apples aren't red that they can't be fucking arsed with building all that shit themselves.

Realistically, can you provide a scenario where M$ don't get some money out of this - apart from where a meteorite twats 7 barrels of shite out of X-soft's HQ?
Space

India Successfully Test Fires Its Heaviest Rocket 56

Posted by timothy from the might-roar dept.
vasanth (908280) writes India on Thursday moved forward in rocket technology with the successful flight testing of its heaviest next generation rocket and the crew module . The 630-tonne three-stage rocket, Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle Mark III, carried active solid boosters, liquid core stage and a passive cryo stage and a crew module to test its re-entry characteristics. This rocket is capable of doubling the capacity of payloads India can carry into space and it can deposit up to four tonne class of communication satellites into space. India also plans to use this rocket for ferrying Indian astronauts into space. For India, ISRO (the Indian space agency) perfecting the cryogenic engine technology is crucial as India can save precious foreign exchange by launching heavy duty communication satellites by itself.

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