Biggest trading scandal in the world?

Biggest trading scandal in the world?
Feb 4, 2008 22:14	#21
MARRIE Points: Join Date: Jan 7, 2008 Status: Offline	That's not to say something can't or shouldn't be done. A recent BusinessWeek article profiles a Hewlett-Packard manager whose job is specifically to fight for "Supply Chain Social & Environmental Responsibility." Bonny Nixon-Gardiner not only travels to facilities like the Foxconn Longhua plant to ensure the working conditions are decent, but she has also worked with other companies such as Dell, IBM, and Intel to create the Electronic Industry Code of Conduct, setting out basic labor and environmental standards for IT contractors. It's not an easy job. Grover Thurman of Foxconn describes working with Nixon-Gardiner as "like being kissed and slapped at the same time. It can make you psychotic—but it needs to be done." We can only hope that Apple, who puts at least a little of that marketing budget into trying to promote themselves as a socially responsible company, can get on board with the movement towards technology manufacturing ethics. Of course, Apple isn't alone in its use of labor in Asia, including that which has been profiled here. We hope that all such companies keep the improvement of workers' conditions at the top of their "must have" feature list for the future

Feb 4, 2008 22:14

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That's not to say something can't or shouldn't be done. A recent BusinessWeek article profiles a Hewlett-Packard manager whose job is specifically to fight for "Supply Chain Social & Environmental Responsibility." Bonny Nixon-Gardiner not only travels to facilities like the Foxconn Longhua plant to ensure the working conditions are decent, but she has also worked with other companies such as Dell, IBM, and Intel to create the Electronic Industry Code of Conduct, setting out basic labor and environmental standards for IT contractors.

It's not an easy job. Grover Thurman of Foxconn describes working with Nixon-Gardiner as "like being kissed and slapped at the same time. It can make you psychotic—but it needs to be done."

We can only hope that Apple, who puts at least a little of that marketing budget into trying to promote themselves as a socially responsible company, can get on board with the movement towards technology manufacturing ethics.

Of course, Apple isn't alone in its use of labor in Asia, including that which has been profiled here. We hope that all such companies keep the improvement of workers' conditions at the top of their "must have" feature list for the future

Feb 5, 2008 18:37

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This almost reads like "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck with a different back ground of course. It's always a constant struggle between labor and industry with any gains made by labor to be lost eventually over the decades to come. The same story can be said for the Mexican and Central American migrant workers that cross the U.S. border for work and send back to their families a portion of their earnings. It's a never ending constant struggle.

Feb 5, 2008 20:40	#23
MARRIE Points: Join Date: Jan 7, 2008 Status: Offline	The stated situations can be traced back to the early stage of class struggle and industrial revolution which happend in Britain(1st) and German (2nd?).

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