<story><title>Apple and Foxconn broke a Chinese labor law to build the latest iPhones</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-09/apple-foxconn-broke-a-chinese-labor-law-for-iphone-production</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chillacy</author><text>A more accurate title is: suppliers break chinese labor law and apple&amp;#x27;s internal standards in order to meet deadlines.&lt;p&gt;Apple does occasional audits, but what more can you do when the people you audit lie to you because they _want_ to work?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; While overtime is allegedly often required, most workers want to work overtime to make more money, according to an anonymous diary written by a CLW investigator in the factory.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cwyers</author><text>Apple can do math. Apple can look at what they&amp;#x27;re getting and what they&amp;#x27;re paying for it and run the figures and see what that comes to in terms of pay for hours worked. At a certain point, asking for X and putting down rules that make X impossible or highly improbable isn&amp;#x27;t getting conned, it&amp;#x27;s trying to get to plausible deniability.</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple and Foxconn broke a Chinese labor law to build the latest iPhones</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-09/apple-foxconn-broke-a-chinese-labor-law-for-iphone-production</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chillacy</author><text>A more accurate title is: suppliers break chinese labor law and apple&amp;#x27;s internal standards in order to meet deadlines.&lt;p&gt;Apple does occasional audits, but what more can you do when the people you audit lie to you because they _want_ to work?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; While overtime is allegedly often required, most workers want to work overtime to make more money, according to an anonymous diary written by a CLW investigator in the factory.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sschueller</author><text>Apple does a lot more than occasional audits. If they didn&amp;#x27;t the next iPhone would be posted all over blogs and twitter. Yet they are able to keep quite a tight grip and leaks. This only works if you have control of the entire chain.</text></comment>