Apple Agrees to Audit of Its Labor Practices After Pressure from Investors (nytimes.com) 22
The New York Times reports:
Apple will conduct an asessment of its U.S. labor practices under an agreement with a coalition of investors that includes five New York City pension funds. The assessment will focus on whether Apple is complying with its official human rights policy as it relates to "workers' freedom of association and collective bargaining rights in the United States," the company said in a filing last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The audit comes amid complaints by federal regulators and employees that the company has repeatedly violated workers' labor rights as they have sought to unionize over the past year. Apple has denied the accusations. "There's a big apparent gap between Apple's stated human rights policies regarding worker organizing, and its practices," said Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller, who helped initiate the discussion with Apple on behalf of the city's public worker pension funds....
The investor coalition that pushed for the labor assessment argues that Apple's response to the union campaigns is at odds with its human rights policy because that policy commits it to respect the International Labor Organization's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, which includes "freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining."
"Apple offered few details, saying that it would conduct the assessment by the end of the year and that it would publish a report related to the assessment."
The audit comes amid complaints by federal regulators and employees that the company has repeatedly violated workers' labor rights as they have sought to unionize over the past year. Apple has denied the accusations. "There's a big apparent gap between Apple's stated human rights policies regarding worker organizing, and its practices," said Brad Lander, the New York City comptroller, who helped initiate the discussion with Apple on behalf of the city's public worker pension funds....
The investor coalition that pushed for the labor assessment argues that Apple's response to the union campaigns is at odds with its human rights policy because that policy commits it to respect the International Labor Organization's Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, which includes "freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining."
"Apple offered few details, saying that it would conduct the assessment by the end of the year and that it would publish a report related to the assessment."
Desantis... (Score:2)
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Back maybe 5 years ago we had a ban on the word "Nazi" on this site, freezepeach be damned.
But interestingly, Godwin's law makes no statement about the validity of such comparisons.
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Actually, it does.
"If you're thoughtful about it and show some real awareness of history, go ahead and refer to Hitler when you talk about Trump, or any other politician."
"By All Means, Compare These Shitheads to the Nazis." (in response to the Charlottesville neo-Nazi rally)
-Mike Godwin
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Perhaps this is Godwin's Second Law: "As your behavior approaches that of a Nazi, the chance of being compared to a Nazi approaches 1."
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secondly, I responded to a shitpost that literally meant nothing in relation to the story.
third, if you dont see what Desantis is doing as an overreach of government, its because you have a narrow view of government over reach and as long as you agree with it, it is fine. Which by definition, is autocratic/dictatorial. As one person should not define the laws of many, let alone a minority over majority.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism [merriam-webster.com]
a pol
It will audit it's "US" labor practices. (Score:2)
So, it's all kosher that they use slave labor in China...
#AppleSux (Score:1)
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So, it's all kosher that they use slave labor in China...
Morals, ethics, or price. A planet manufacturing in China, has chosen already.
Investigate themselves (Score:2)
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I know the slashdot groupthink has its own foregone conclusion. But I am friends with... personally... several people who work for Apple, and am acquainted with more on top of that. A few of these have been with the company long enough (One's worked there for over 20 years.) to have had the full Steve Jobs experience. Based on their self-described experiences; I expect the audit would reflect very positively on Apple as a workplace (Especially post-Jobs) no matter who conducted it.
I'm sure that's true so long as (Score:3, Insightful)
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I know the slashdot groupthink has its own foregone conclusion. But I am friends with... personally... several people who work for Apple, and am acquainted with more on top of that. A few of these have been with the company long enough (One's worked there for over 20 years.) to have had the full Steve Jobs experience. Based on their self-described experiences; I expect the audit would reflect very positively on Apple as a workplace (Especially post-Jobs) no matter who conducted it.
Of course, you're only talking to the people who are still there. Now go ask the ones who work for other companies why they left.
Companies aren't monolithic. You can have teams that are great to work on and teams that are hell to work on. What makes companies good or bad to work for are the ratio of good teams to bad teams and the ease with which you can get away from a bad team without leaving the company.
Particularly when you're talking about Apple retail workers, every store is going to have different
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ROFL (Score:1)
We all know they care about nothing but money. Something which is accepted and the defining characteristic of all corporations. But, this is form a few days ago and has tons of interesting points. [ft.com]
TL;DR - Apple directly supports the CCP with YOUR purchases, and has sucked so much Chinese cock there is no way out, oh and they gave them the keys to their kingdom already. They could not be bigger whores, currently pimping for pooh bear.