Apple's 2016 assembly line report focuses on workers' rights

Apple has published its 2016 supplier responsibility report. The report, which has been published every year for a decade, describes how the workers who make Apple products are treated by both the apple company and its suppliers, as well as the progress Apple has made in the environmental area. . The latter is something they also talked about at an event on the 21st in which we introduced liam, a robot that disassembles the iPhones that we send to it for recycling.

In 2015, Apple made 640 audits in your supply chain, which has covered 1.6 million workers from 25 countries. Of these 640 audits, 140 were performed for the first time. According to the company that Tim Cook runs, 97% of the workers in their supply chain meet the standard weekly number of hours (that will be there ...), which means that most of the manufacturing / assembly workers some Apple device have worked 60 or less hours a week.

In 2015, compliance with working hours among our suppliers reached 97%, a virtually unprecedented number in our industry. Since 2008, more than 92 million people have participated in Apple's educational programs and more than $ 25.600.000 million in recruitment expenses have been re-paid to foreign workers hired by vendors as a result of our efforts.

Moreover, Apple also says that informed 3 million other workers about their rights and that they graduated more than 1.000 students through their program Supplier Employ Education and Developmentt (SEED) with associate and baccalaureate degrees.

With so much positivism on the part of these reports, it is inevitable to think of other reports that are not so positive, such as one that we published on January 19 in which it was stated that there were children working to extract Cobalt from mines, a material used for, for example, iPhone batteries. In any case, Apple's version is that they cannot control everything related to their supply chain and that, if they detect a case like this, their supplier has to pay the minor for the studies and, logically, remove him from the factory or mine in this case. In any case and according to the new report, 97% of workers are working what is fair.