More Blood on Your iPad! (2 dead 16 injured)

[Omaha Steve]

http://talkingunion.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/more-blood-on-your-ipad/

Posted on May 23, 2011 by paulgarver

by Paul Garver

Workers at a new Foxconn plant in Chengdu were polishing covers for Apple iPads when their workroom exploded from the accumulation of aluminum dust. Two were killed and sixteen others injured.

The calamity was foretold. Less than a month before SACOM (Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior) had published an extensive report detailing a series of abuses, including dangerous health and safety conditions, at three new factories Foxconn was building in the Chinese interior to escape the higher wages it had to pay in coastal Shenzhen, following a series of mass suicides of young workers at its giant factory complexes there.
Apple is the sole buyer for the products of the south “campus (factory complex) at Chengdu. SACOM had appealed in vain to Apple to require Foxconn, its largest supplier, to correct the dangerous health and safety conditions at the Chengdu factory.

FULL story at link.

[LAGC]

1. Wow, I wonder if the Admin should reconsider the prize give-away?

Not good.

(Of course, I still prefer net-books to tablets... like being able to read an e-book without having to clutch the screen the whole time. Can just set it on the table/counter and good to go. Keyboards are nice too, for composing messages more quickly than a touch-screen.)