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iPhone, iSlave 血汗愛瘋第六代
2014.09.21 1:37PM
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血汗愛瘋第六代

Release of Apple's 'iSlave 6' Highlights Working Conditions: iSlave 6 Banner at the premiere of the new phone at the Apple store in Hong Kong to protest against the working conditions of Apple employees. More http://revolution-news.com/release-apples-islave6-highlights-slave-working-conditions/



蘋果今日再發售iPhone 6，各分店均有市民通宵排隊，「大學師生監察無良企業行動」（SACOM）到中環ifc蘋果店抗議iPhone生產過程嚴重剝削內地工人。團體於店外玻璃幕牆掛出巨型橫額，隨即被保安要求拆下，雙方發生推撞。

2014年9月19日是全球蘋果手機用戶的大日子，因為今天是iPhone 6和iPhone 6 plus的首賣日。同一天，大學師生監察無良企業行動（SACOM），聯同亞洲專訊資料研究中心、女工關懷、全球化監察、左翼廿一、勞工教育及服務網絡、香港職工會聯盟、社會民主連線、勞動力及其他關心工人權益的市民到位於中環的國際金融中心商場蘋果旗艦店門前抗議。SACOM最新發表了針對蘇州和碩（下稱和碩）的調查報告，揭露了生產iPhone 6的過程中，工廠對工人諸多剝削近乎奴役。和碩為蘋果生產逾一半的iPhone 6訂單。SACOM為吸引消費者及公眾人士注意在蘋果旗艦店外牆成功懸掛一幅7米乘7米的巨型橫額，表達iPhone 6 更大了，但還是血汗生產的訊息。

SACOM調查報告指出蘋果產品成功背後有著大量剝削工人的行為。然而，蘋果身為買家，卻未有承擔起企業社會責任，沒有監督其供應商和碩的用工情況，導致以下的嚴重剝削及違法行為出現：

【瘋狂加班】在沒有任何休假的情況下，工人在旺季時連續工作十星期。工人更反映出他們每天平均工作12-15小時，甚至長達到17-18小時，嚴重違反中國《勞動法》的工時標準
【不提供免費體檢】根據法例，入職前體檢費是須由工廠負責但和碩的工人卻需要親自繳交體檢費用，更不獲通知體檢報告結果。
【欠缺勞動保護】在危機崗位作業的工人沒有分配有效的勞動保護設備，車間更出現工人因連續多小時工作而昏倒的情況
【派遣工】工廠大量使用派遣工，違反了《勞務派遣暫行規定》中指出使用的被派遣勞動數量不得超過其用工總量的10%。而工廠能因大量使用派遣工而逃避負擔起工人的勞動保障
【辭職困難】若工人需要辭職，他們往往要等待一段很長的時間才能獲得批准，迫使他們在無正式文件下自願離職，失去至少十五天的工資。

自殺安全網 Solution to Slave laborers jumping out of the windows. The Suicide Nets.

骨髓性白血病可以是因為放射線暴露、致癌化學藥物暴露造成，是一種骨髓性造血芽細胞（而非淋巴性芽細胞）異常增殖的血液惡性腫瘤，是白血病的一種。是因為白血病細胞取代正常骨髓性細胞所致，造成周邊血液的紅血球、血小板和正常的白血球下降。其徵狀包括疲倦、易喘，運動能力下降、容易造成皮膚和黏膜瘀傷和流血，並增加感染的危險。少數的患者會有淋巴腺腫大、肝脾腫大及骨髓外組織的侵犯(extramedullary involvment)，如果在骨髓外組織形成腫瘤稱為骨髓性肉瘤(Myeloid sarcoma)。 急性骨髓性白血病患者造成發燒、感染的原因，常常是因為周邊血液的嗜中性白血球低下(neutropenia)，而遭到細菌感染，稱為嗜中性白血球低下的發燒(febrile neutropenia)。治療需要使用廣效性抗生素。At least 13 workers in their late teens and early 20s have been diagnosed with leukemia after falling sick at the massive factory in Shenzhen since 2010 where about two million iPhones a week are made by an army of 230,000 migrant workers from across China. Five have died – and at ages when doctors say cases of the blood cancer are rare.

自2010年以來，SACOM一直監察蘋果的用工情況，希望蘋果對現企業社會責任的承諾，使工人能有尊嚴地工作。不幸的是，代工廠的勞動條件仍然強差人意。SACOM要求蘋果公司和其供應商和碩盡快作出以下的措施，以維護工人的權利:

1. 提供每週至少一天休息，限制加班時數為每月最多36小時；
2. 為工人提供足夠的職業安全培訓、保護裝備和針對職安健的身體檢查；
3. 支付工人的健康檢查費，並告知工人報告內容；
4. 停止濫用勞務派遣工；及
5. 讓工人依照工會法選擇他們的代表。



iSlave 6 : Harsher than Harsher! Still Made in Sweatshops!

19th September, 2014, Hong Kong

Today (19th September) is the official launch day of the pre-reserved iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 plus which are remarkably configured with bigger size of touch screen. Although some customers may be impressed by the new product, SACOM discloses the unacceptable slavery working condition in Pegatron Corporation, which is one of the key Apple’s suppliers producing about 50% of iPhone 6.

According to our newly investigative report entitled “The Lives of Apple’s iSlave in its Pegatron Sweatshops in China”, the dark side of Apple’s success and its failure to closely monitor suppliers’ corporate behavior have been disclosed. SACOM researchers have found that there are a number of practices in the factory violating workers’ rights and labour laws, key problems including:

- No single day off for 2.5 months: Workers work up to 10 weeks without any rest day during peak season and they often work for 12-15 hours a day and sometimes up to 17-18 hours;
- No protective equipment: Workers in hazardous positions are not provided with adequate and effective protective measures. There are cases of worker fainting in the production lines;
- Illegal charges for health checks: Workers have to pay their own health checks during recruitment which should be paid by employer;
- Difficult resignation: If workers would like to resign, they have to wait for a long time in order to get the approval which push them to leave without official documentation and losing at least 15 days of wages; and
- High Proportion of Dispatch workers: who form the majority in the workforce which violates the regulation that dispatch workers should not exceed 10 percent of the total workforce. Pegatron avoids regular employment benefits such as social insurance and potential legal responsibility if there is any labour dispute by hiring large amount of dispatch workers.

We are deeply disappointed of the findings. Today, we are here again to stage a protest in front of Apple retail store in IFC mall to urge Apple and its supplier to:
1. provide at least one rest day every week for workers and limit the maximum overtime work to 36 hours a month;
2. provide adequate training, protection and health examination to workers on occupational health and safety;
3. pay for workers’ health checks fee and inform the results to workers;
4. stop the improper use of dispatch workers in production for avoiding the provision of regular employment benefits and;
5. enable workers to elect their representatives in accordance with the Trade Union Law.

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原文網址：http://www.coolloud.org.tw/node/79762

家樂福工會赴勞動部抗議
要求廢變形工時

2014/08/19 苦勞報導 陳韋綸苦勞網記者

原文網址：http://www.ntdtv.com/xtr/b5/2014/04/24/a1105303.html

台港澳勞團聲援 裕元鞋廠大罷工

更新時間： 2014-04-24 07:44 AM [紐約時間]

Who Really Benefits From Sweatshops?
by David L. Wilson

Consumers are ultimately the ones responsible for dangerous conditions in garment assembly plants in the Global South, Hong Kong-based business executive Bruce Rockowitz told the New York Times recently. The problem is that improved safety would raise the price of clothing, according to Rockowitz, who heads Li & Fung Limited, a sourcing company that hooks up retailers like Macy's and Kohl's with suppliers in low-wage countries like Bangladesh. "So far," he said, "consumers have just not been willing to accept higher costs."

Rockowitz isn't alone in blaming consumers in Europe and the United States for sweatshop conditions in the apparel industry. The idea pervades popular culture. When 1,129 Bangladeshi sweatshop workers died in the Rana Plaza collapse in April, a lawyer in the United Kingdom proposed raising money for the victims by having consumers pay a voluntary "T-shirt tax" on clothing stitched in Bangladesh. "This isn't just the fault of companies who supply cheap clothes," barrister Victoria Butler-Cole explained.

But people rarely ask whether the facts support this idea. How much money do we really save because of cheap labor in the Global South?

Calculating the "T-Shirt Tax"

The quick answer is: nickels and dimes. Although estimates of the percentage of labor costs in clothing's retail price "vary by product and location of production," World Bank senior economist Zahid Hussainwrote in 2010, "it is clear from published academic research that labor costs typically constitute 1-3 percent for a garment produced in the developing world. Hence, large increases in labor costs do not require correspondingly large increases in retail price." The Worker Rights Consortium, a group monitoring sweatshop conditions, came to a similar conclusion in 2005.

Significant wage increases and improvements in conditions at Bangladeshi apparel plants would probably add 40 or 50 cents to the price of a $10 T-shirt, at most. And this is assuming, as Bruce Rockowitz does, that manufacturers and retailers would pass the extra cost on to us.

The assumption might have been valid in the time of Adam Smith. In the eighteenth century there were many small capitalists competing with each other; any savings they made in production, either by cutting wages or adopting new technologies, they would use to reduce prices and undersell their competitors. But as leftist economists Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy showed almost 50 years ago in their book Monopoly Capital, pricing methods are very different now. By the beginning of the twentieth century the most successful companies had succeeded in swallowing up the others, and it didn't make sense for the remaining giant corporations to engage in protracted price wars among themselves. Instead, they started holding prices steady while increasing sales through other means, with an emphasis on marketing.

Companies occasionally revert to the practice of underselling their rivals, and they often take advantage of new technologies to cut prices and generate an increase in sales, as has happened with personal computers since the early 1980s. But there's no automatic connection between lower labor costs and lower prices. The price of a commodity is set by a complicated formula with many different factors, and labor costs are often a minor one.

This is especially true in an industry like apparel, where changing fashions and brand name prestige have a disproportionate effect on pricing; the difference between a $120 pair of Nike sneakers and the $30 shoes at a discount store doesn't come from high wages for workers at Nike's Indonesian suppliers.

Choosing Between Profits and Workers

To get a sense of the relative importance of labor costs, we just need to look at advertising. It's not easy to find exact information on advertising costs, but the staff of the magazine Ad Age made an effort in 2007. They estimated that spending on advertising was equal to 5.1 percent of total sales in the apparel industry, while for apparel stores the number was 4.5 percent. In other words, the cost for advertising the clothes can be as much as five times the cost of stitching them.

Other forms of marketing, such as telemarketing, email marketing, and junk mail, may account for an even larger share of an item's cost. In 2009 writers for Monthly Review calculated that advertising might represent as little as 30 percent of the total cost of marketing.

Suppose we were to cut marketing down to the minimum that consumers really find useful -- information on product availability and prices, for example. The savings would certainly be enough to allow for doubling the wages of many assembly workers and creating safe conditions in their factories, all at no extra cost to consumers.

If we had a say in the matter, it's not likely that we'd choose to let workers die in Bangladesh so that we can have our lives cluttered with ads, junk mail, and celebrity endorsements. After all, the workers, mostly young women and teenage girls, actually stitch our clothes, while the main purpose of advertising is just to get us to buy more products from one company than from another, or to create an artificial demand so that we'll buy more than we need.

But the sweatshop system isn't about what consumers want, and it's certainly not about what the workers want; the goal is to increase profits for manufacturers and retailers, to make the superrich even richer.

While blaming consumers for sweatshop conditions, Li & Fung CEO Bruce Rockowitz has done quite well from the business of sourcing sweatshops for multinationals. His company had some $20 billion in revenues in 2012, and owners Victor and William Fung are each worth about $3 billion. Businessweek estimates that Rockowitz's personal compensation last year was $6.955 million, and his net assets have been put at $33 million or more. In October 2011 Rockowitz married Hong Kong pop star Coco Lee in a ceremony that reportedly cost $20 million.

David L. Wilson is co-author, with Jane Guskin, of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers, Monthly Review Press, July 2007. He also co-edits Weekly News Update on the Americas, a summary of news from Latin America and the Caribbean.



原文網址：http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2013/wilson120913.html

原文網址：http://www.coolloud.org.tw/node/75697

2013/09/24
公共論壇
蕭函青
輔仁大學心理學系碩士班學生、高科技冷血青年成員

責任主編：王顥中

大埔張家悲劇帶來的哀痛和怒火仍激盪在我們心中，同一時間，國內搖滾天團五月天的〈入陣曲〉新MV[1]在社運圈引起了不小的議論。許多人認為，他們用隱晦的歌詞搭配社運抗爭的新聞，包裝反抗意識，在主流樂團中已值得肯定。

事實上，這已經不是五月天第一次為社會正義發聲了，今年（2013）年初，反核聲浪四起之際，五月天的團員也在各種場合表達反核立場，一瞬間，他們從陪伴我們青春的熱血勵志樂團，昇華成社會正義發聲的良心。

原文網址：http://www.coolloud.org.tw/node/75108

工會與聲援者以塑膠桶把「伯朗咖啡」浸泡在紅色顏料裡，指控金車物流剝削司機，賣的是「血咖啡」。（攝影：孫窮理） 事先進入店內的抗議者把雙手塗紅，在窗戶上印出「血手印」。（攝影：孫窮理）「伯朗咖啡，血汗風味」。（攝影：孫窮理） 資方高層完全不出面回應，伯朗咖啡北科大店的幹部完全不知道發生什麼事，被媒體追到角落，無法回應。（攝影：孫窮理） 

為阻止抗議者進入店內，警方一度舉牌警告，並組成人牆堵住店門口，使咖啡館無法進出。（攝影：孫窮理）

因為「椎間盤凸起」，身上仍帶著治療用護具、金車物流工會監事柯恢悟才剛開過刀，目前因職業病留職停薪，為了今天的抗爭，特別吃了加重份量的止痛藥才能久站。「椎間盤凸起」是司機駕駛長期工作後，經常發生的職業病；柯恢悟表示，長期以來，金車物流司機每日工時長達12小時、甚至長達16、17個小時，甚至發生24小時都在工作的狀態。工時過長的現象經過檢舉，桃園縣勞動及人力資源局也對金車開罰，不過公司高層親口對工會說「金車有的是錢，不怕它罰」；而在職災的責任上，柯恢悟表示自己的職業病已經經過鑑定確認，但是資方至今不願意負起職災責任，只同意先給予半年「留職停薪」。

金車物流運送的主要物品是包括伯朗咖啡、波爾茶這些商品，目前公司旗下有30多部連結車；5、6年前司機組織工會，按《工會法》30人才能組織工會的規定，當時差不多所有司機都加入工會。柯恢悟說，現在這個主管，去年（2012）5月上任後，要求司機不可加入工會，參加工會的人，就會排給他「比較累、比較不容易賺的車趟」。

公司計薪方式，與一般客貨運業類似，底薪只有1萬2千塊，之後用「獎金」之類的名目往上面加；而「車趟獎金」是以車趟計，換句話說，花較長時間才能完成的車趟，司機一天能跑的車趟減少，「車趟獎金」也就跟著減少；在這樣的操作下，參與工會的成員每月收入比起配合主管要求的人，少了2、3萬左右；在這種情形下，參與工會的人越來越少，現在只剩下幾個幹部。

工會提出「合理分配車趟」、「停止打壓工會」、「防止過勞駕駛」等訴求。目前工會成員認為，打壓動作主要是出自「主管的意志」，金車集團的董事長李添財只是「授權幹部」，讓他這樣做；不過經過今天抗議行動，公司方面並沒有任何人出面，也沒有任何回應。工會與聲援團體表示，金車若不正面回應，或者繼續打壓工會，將發起下一波行動。

原文網址：http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20121007/00178_002.html

請假被炒 莞配件廠員工跳樓亡

【本報綜合報道】美國蘋果公司的iPhone 5面世後廣受歡迎，廣東東莞一家生產iPhone 5配件的代工廠，有工人上月因請假問題與主管爭論後，一怒之下跳樓自殺死亡。廿多名死者家屬前日封堵廠房門口及拉橫額抗議，要求廠方賠償八十萬元人民幣。警方到場後一度與家屬發生衝突。