BBc has just released a documentary that covers the unbearable working conditions in Apples factories. The video and footage was aired from inside the Pegatron and Foxconn factories.
BBC has gone a step further by following the Apple parts supply chain back to the source, where the BBC found children digging for tin in mud pits in Bangka, Indonesia. They are at constant risk of being buried in landslides as the walls of the makeshift opencast mines are hosed in order to sheath off more mud and expose more tin ore for iPhone parts.
There is plenty of footage of exhausted workers falling sleep at their posts in the factory:
The BBC says the factory has faked an audit trail of the paperwork so it will look as if all the workers agreed to work nights.
This factory worker is warning a colleague not to fall asleep in case he slumps into a machine and electrocutes himself.
The BBC also found:
• 12 people living in each factory dorm room when the rules call for only eight to a room.
• Bullying from factory managers.
• Workers falling asleep standing up because they’re all on 12 hour shifts.
• Workers too exhausted to eat.
• One worker complaining he was so exhausted from making iPhones that he would fall asleep before reaching the bathroom at the end of the day.