In China , Human Cost Are Built Into an Ipad

On February 1st in class we read an article about factories in china exploding killing workers and injuring some people. The factories were miss-treating workers that assemble IPhones, IPads, and other Apple products. The safety of workers weren’t important. The article went to say that more troubling, the group is some suppliers disregard for workers health. According to the article it states those two years ago, 137 workers at an apple supplier in eastern china were injured after they were ordered to use a poisonous chemical to clean iPhone screens. The article also went on to state that within seven months last year two explosions at IPad factories, including in Chengdu, killed four people and injured 77, before those blasts , apple had alerted to hazardous conditions inside the Chengdu plant, according to a Chinese group that released the warning. Furthermore apple didn’t take the full on responsibility of the safety of their overseas manufactures workers in their factories.  According to the article apple isn’t the only big name companies  that are doing business like that. Big companies doing business like that such as Motorola, Nokia, Sony, Toshiba and others. These big manufactures are ignoring the health and safety of their workers in their factories overseas by suppliers improperly disposed of hazardous waste and falsified records, to avoid their consumers stop being their products knowing that their device from apple was made by someone who almost nearly lost their life or someone who was injured while making my IPhone or IPad and or even IPod.
I think that some big companies that are doing business like apple factories in china are wrong for what they`re doing. While making money their also endangering the lives of their workers each day when the workers are working on making these products as fast as they can produce with the hazardous chemicals they are around every day all day. If customers knew how they got their apple or other devices made overseas I think a small percentage would even protest about this and stop buying these products but the big percentage wouldn’t even take the time out to even be bothered or even care about it.