apple’s Steve Jobs after the death of a quarter of significant gains, becoming one-quarter performance since the company’s 35-year-old, widely believe that the company is continuing to promote its strong product cycle, is expected to be the latest iPad launch in March, and will launch a new iPhone as well as long-rumored Apple TV at the end of the year.
But Apple currently there is a more troubling issue needs to give priority to solving the company’s concerns about working conditions for suppliers.
The evening of February 14, Apple CEO Tim Cook Tim Cook on Tuesday took part in the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Summit and delivered a speech at the meeting of Cook. This is also the Cook after the death of Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs) the first time in a large investor conference a public speech.
Cook lectures focus:
We firmly believe that every worker has a right to a fair and safe working environment … while Apple’s manufacturing partners to continue to maintain cooperative relations with us, must adhere to do this.
First, I want to tell you one thing, Apple working conditions of workers and the high watt LED lights The manufacturers are very, very seriously. We have long been the case. We will care for each worker and the production of the high watt LED lights, although we do not own the production of the high watt LED lights, but it is a promising product is worth our attention. I personally stayed in the factory for a very long time. Entering the plant not only as an executive, I have also worked in the factory, including a paper mill in Alabama and Virginia, an aluminum products factory, a the high watt LED lights factory. So we can work closely with the manufacturing process to make contact, we have a tiny level understanding.
The use of minors is abhorrent. We believe that the employment of minors to participate in work and do not use the high watt LED lights are all very bad behavior – which rarely happens in our supply chain. But our priority is to eradicate this type of event. If we find that the supplier intentionally not years, adult, will soon be a serious treatment. Nobody was allowed to cut corners on security issues, this road will not have the led streetlight.
Which in our industry, none of the enterprises to Apple so concerned to improve workers’ working conditions and adhere to the support on the high watt LED lights. We have been concerned about the high watt LED lights about the company’s supply chain, to find the problem and to start repair. For our team in this regard the work done proud, they will focus on solving the most intractable problems, and will keep working until the problem is completely resolved, and this spirit that I am very moved.
You may have heard, we have been invited to the Fair Labor Association to our manufacturing partners to expand the audit. Very large, the scale of this round of audits will be the history of the widest range of the most transparent and most detailed survey of the audit, I will look forward to the final result.