Comments on: Apple supplier auditors send mixed messages about Foxconn

By: Neyts

Neyts — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:51:46 +0000

Now electronic supply chain companies must leave EICC and join FLA. It is much better in auditing suppliers and ensuring compliance

By: Jonatha

Jonatha — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 07:26:26 +0000

Of the conditions are way above average, then how come workers in the average, or even below average factories are not organizing mass suicides, etc?

Sorry…but when Apple PAYS someone to evaluate the conditions, it is no longer an independent evaluation.

By: MichaelBrianBentley

MichaelBrianBentley — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:56:43 +0000

Reading FLA off-the-cuff comments made during their investigation is disconcerting and so not like Apple that it makes me wonder how such media interactions are stipulated in the terms of the Apple-FLA agreement. This may be simply how FLA rolls.

By: Vlad

Vlad — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:44:48 +0000

Well said.

By: rick gregory

rick gregory — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:23:45 +0000

The FLA should shut the hell up until they have a report. Go do a thorough, honest job, then report. Put things in context AND give absolute judgements (meaning the conditions might be significantly above average for that kind of factory but still much more oppressive that we’d like to see). But quit chatting with the press during the investigation.