{"id":28241,"date":"2012-03-16T11:54:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T18:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=28241"},"modified":"2012-03-16T11:54:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T18:54:03","slug":"ipad-3-rollout-draws-thousands-even-as-chinese-working-conditions-remain-grim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/03\/16\/ipad-3-rollout-draws-thousands-even-as-chinese-working-conditions-remain-grim\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad 3 Rollout Draws Thousands, Even as Chinese Working Conditions Remain Grim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-031612\/2012_03_16_ryan.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-031612\/2012_03_16_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/foxconnworkers.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Long lines are forming outside of sleek Apple computer stores around the nation today as gadget trend-setters wait to be the first to own an Apple iPad 3. The popular tablet is smaller than a piece of paper, thinner than a copy of Vogue magazine, and, bestows the user with a degree of class status. <\/p>\n<p>Apple products were once unambiguous symbols of a fresh, forward thinking ethos, but the highly publicized abuse and terrible working conditions of the Chinese laborers who assemble its goods has recently warped its image. Workers assembling Apple products at the Foxconn factory in China, which employs 1.2 million employees who also live on company property, report being packed into dorm rooms with as many as 20 people, working 24 hour shifts, and sustaining injuries from chemicals and machinery. Attention was first drawn to the factory after a rash of worker suicides.  In the wake of consumer complaints last month, Apple announced the Foxconn factory would be monitored by the Fair Labor Association. <\/p>\n<p>Today, outside Apple&#8217;s flagship store in San Francisco, the hip urban neighbor to the tech-sector hub in Silicon Valley, Change.Org is holding  a demonstration to keep pressure on Apple to improve working conditions overseas. Change.org says labor monitoring is a step in the right direction but it&#8217;s calling on Apple to release a plan for how it will protect workers during the production blitz for the iPad 3 launch. Apple has not announced plans to raise the wages of Chinese factory workers, which are about $2.00 an hour at the Foxconn factory. Meanwhile Apple&#8217;s profit margin is an astonishing 51%. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Sarah Ryan, a senior Campaigner with Change.Org<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/foxconn\">www.change.org\/foxconn<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long lines are forming outside of sleek Apple computer stores around the nation today as gadget trend-setters wait to be the first to own an Apple iPad 3. The popular tablet is smaller than a piece of paper, thinner than a copy of Vogue magazine, and, bestows the user with a degree of class status. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}