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Apple Code of Conduct created
The code Apple published that year demands “that working conditions in Apple’s supply chain are safe, that workers are treated with respect and dignity, and that manufacturing processes are environmentally responsible.” -
Daily Mail first documents Foxconn violations in Longhua
Foxconn manufatures the iPod nano and shuffle in inhospitible working conditions. Apple subsequently audited the factory and ordered improvements. Link to article -
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Apple audits 39 facilities
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Apple audits 83 facilities
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Foxconn forestalls BSR effort to improve employee feedback
In 2006, BSR, along with a division of the World Bank and other groups, initiated a project to improve working conditions in factories building cellphones and other devices in China and elsewhere. Foxconn agreed to participate but made many demands for concessions in a pilot program to create worker "hotlines" to report issues . in January 2008, a day before the start, Foxconn demanded more changes, until it was clear the project would not proceed, -
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Apple audits 102 facilities
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n-hexane use injures 137
137 workers at an Apple supplier in eastern China were injured after they were ordered to use a poisonous chemical to clean iPhone screens. -
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Apple audits 127 facilities
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Steve Jobs defends Apple's supplier relationship despite worker suicide attempts
“I actually think Apple does one of the best jobs of any companies in our industry, and maybe in any industry, of understanding the working conditions in our supply chain,” said Mr. Jobs, who was Apple’s chief executive at the time and who died last October." “I mean, you go to this place, and, it’s a factory, but, my gosh, I mean, they’ve got restaurants and movie theaters and hospitals and swimming pools, and I mean, for a factory, it’s a pretty nice factory.” -
Explosion in Foxconn's Chengdu plant
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Shanghai iPad factory explodes, injures 59
In December, however, seven months after the blast that killed Mr. Lai, another iPad factory exploded, this one in Shanghai. Once again, aluminum dust was the cause, according to interviews and Apple’s most recent supplier responsibility report. That blast injured 59 workers, with 23 hospitalized. -
Apple releases list of suppliers
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Apple posts record profits
Apple reported one of the most lucrative quarters of any corporation in history, with $13.06 billion in profits on $46.3 billion in sales. Its sales would have been even higher, executives said, if overseas factories had been able to produce more.
