A few more reasons to boycott Apple. 2. They once held the record as the most irresponsible labor rights and environmental offender of all 29 major tech companies working with suppliers in China. A report published in August 2011 by a collection of Chinese NGOs included findings from a study of suppliers associated with the 29 biggest tech companies operating in China. While environmental and labor violations were found at suppliers across the board, of all the tech companies contracting work to them, Apple was least responsive to requests from NGOs that it address chronic environmental and labor violations at 27 of its suppliers.... 4. Apple has avoided paying over $74 billion in taxes to the federal government since 2009 by moving their cash to offshore holdings. Recently the company executed a cleverly financed $55 billion payout to shareholders to avoid paying $9.2 billion on this year’s tax bill. Isaiah J. Poole, writing for TruthOut, observed that simply by paying these taxes, Apple could have bolstered the federal coffers such that some of the recent round of budget cuts known as “the sequester” could have been avoided. Ironically, Apple, a company whose leadership maintains that “education is in our DNA” helped contribute to the decimation of federal spending on education that hurts poor and special needs students the most. How do you like them iPads?
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 23:29:10 +0000