文／江奕翰（高科技冷血青年）

　　許多知名品牌都有著一套展現自我精神的標語，而Google的「Do No Evil」就是強調不用違反道德的事情來牟利。雖然這意有所指地突顯了不做壞事對商人來說是多麼難得，且讓人開始懷疑起其他企業的營利手段，但另一方面也突顯了對一個重視品牌形象的公司來說，道德的面向似乎不得不下點功夫。

　　這兩年發展非常蓬勃的高科技產品中，智慧型手機當然是相當受到矚目的，而強調「Do No Evil」的Google也在設計智慧型手機的作業系統之餘，與台灣知名品牌HTC合作，推出了Google名下的第一支智慧型手機。值得我們反問的是，到底什麼才是「Do No Evil」？

Taipei, May 7 (CNA) Taiwanese groups hosted a candlelight vigil late Friday to call attention to the long hours facing employees of local high-tech companies, part of a worldwide action to protest poor working conditions in the information technology (IT) sector.

Launched by European nongovernmental organizations, the makeITfair campaign urged consumers in Europe and around the world to participate in the "International makeITfair Action Day" on May 7 through street demonstrations and social media.

In Taiwan, at least 100 people gathered Friday night in a late-night ceremony held at a major shopping area for electronic goods in downtown Taipei.

They chanted slogans and hoisted signs condemning sweatshop factories and excessively long working hours in the high-tech sector.

Huang Tzu-hua, a member of the High-tech Cold-Blooded Youngs, one of the event's four main organizers, said Apple Inc. is making a fortune from selling its iPad and iPhone, but the workers at Apple's assembly lines in China are not getting their fair share.

Instead, they work long hours at minimal pay, and some sacrifice their health or even their lives in inhumane working conditions.

A number of high-profile cases over the past year have highlighted the plight of workers in some factories in China making parts or finish goods for Apple.

In one such case, Taiwan-based Wintek Corp. was forced to pay compensation in February to 137 workers who were poisoned during the production of touch-screen panels for Apple products. At the Shenzhen complex of Foxconn Technology Group (also known as the Hon Hai Group in Taiwan) , another big Apple supplier, 19 workers attempted suicide from early 2010 to early 2011, with 16 successful.

Many believe the workers were driven to take their lives by harsh working conditions that treated humans as machines.

Apple is expected to draw scrutiny around the world on makeITfair Action Day.

Under the slogan "Time to bite into a fair Apple, " activist groups such as Sacom in Hong Kong, Somo in the Netherlands and Germanwatch in Germany have asked people to crowd into Apple stores and ask about working conditions in Apple's factories and supply chain.

Aside from targeting Apple, the protesters in Taiwan also picked on HTC Corp., the country's largest mobile phone maker.

They called HTC a "sweatshop factory" and accused it of abusing its operators and engineers by making them work more than 12 hours on a daily basis, the groups said.

Tuner Kuo, a former HTC engineer who showed up at the event, told Central News Agency that he attended because he was thankful for the concern and support shown by the civic groups.

"But I don't think HTC is a sweatshop company, " he said.

"Compared with other major giants, the pay is relatively good, both for operators and engineers." He said it would not be fair to single out HTC, because the real problems were industry-wide and involved the changes and challenges facing Taiwan's IT industry.

One of the changes is that engineers are given shorter times to develop new mobile phones. Five years ago, companies had 15 months to roll out new designs, but now they have only have nine months, meaning engineers have to work extra hours to meet demand.

"It's not just engineers who are working past midnight every day.

Even managers and general managers stay up late," he said.

"Most of the engineers are very committed to their job, and sometimes they forget to take good care of themselves, " he said, adding that the government should step in and help solve the excessive overwork problem.

The problem has received considerable attention in Taiwan because of the suspected deaths from exhaustion of many local workers, including a Kuo colleague, 30-year-old Hsieh Hung-ming, in February.

(By Hermia Lin) ENDITEM/ls

咬「蘋果」 響應反血汗IT日

（中央社記者魏紜鈴台北6日電）歐洲NGO組織發起的5月7日國際反血汗IT日，全球約有30個國家響應，台灣也在其中。由高科技冷血青年主辦「高科技受害者燭光晚會」於今晚舉行，矛頭指向美商蘋果。

美商蘋果（Apple Inc.）產製多項明星商品，廣受全球歡迎。由高科技冷血青年、青年九五勞動聯盟、工作傷害受害人協會等團體，舉辦的「高科技受難者祈福晚會」今晚將於光華商場捷運站口登場，主要訴求就是「咬蘋果」。

響應國際反血汗IT日
工傷協會：體制就是殺手 

責任主編：樓乃潔

5月7日是國際反血汗IT日，這是一個全球串連性的活動，主要發起地點在歐洲，訴求是希望使用手機、MP3等電子相關產品的年輕消費族群，能看到這些高科技產業如何剝削工人，並一同要求改善整個工作環境。

抗議團體手持蘋果，諷刺蘋果咬下去的是勞工的血汗。（攝影：vincent）

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蘋果的iPhone和HTC的智慧手機讓科技迷趨之若鶩，但卻有勞工團體指稱，其實智慧型手機的生產過程充斥血汗工廠的問題。高科技冷血青年成員黃姿華指出，台灣社會應該正視高科技產業鏈的剝削問題，消費者更應該要求品牌廠商盡到所位的企業社會責任。

抗議活動採訪通知
過勞死連環爆，全民健康拉警報

活動時間：100年3月8日 9:40
活動地點：行政院大門口

1908年，一萬五千個紐約女工在三月八日走上街頭，要求縮短工時、提高工資，喊出「麵包與玫瑰」訴求勞動者的經濟與生活條件；一百年前的今天，紐約三角成衣工廠發生慘痛的工殤事件，惡劣的勞動條件致使大火吞噬了一百四十多個女工的生命。全球各地的女性勞動者走上街頭，促成了國際婦女節。一百年後的今天，台灣的勞動者仍然工作超時、工殤頻傳，一連串的過勞事件，讓受害者們不得不繼續走上街頭。