From Reporters Without Borders, via Gawker:
Dear Mr. Jobs,
Reporters Without Borders, an organisation that defends press freedom throughout the world, urges you to intercede with your subcontractor in China, the Taiwanese company Foxconn, and get it to drop its lawsuit against reporter Wang You and editor Weng Bao of China Business News (Diyi Jingji Ribao).
These two journalists were responsible for an article on June 15 criticising work conditions at a Foxconn plant. At Foxconn’s request, the Shenzen intermediate people’s court froze their assets – apartments, bank accounts and cars – on July 10. Foxconn then brought a lawsuit accusing them of “smearing its reputation” and demanding 30 million yuan (3 millions euros) in damages.
We know that Apple is already aware of this case. After the London-based Daily Mail newspaper ran a story about it on June 11, your company reacted by investigating conditions at Foxconn‘s plants and discovered that your supplier had indeed violated several aspects of your code of conduct, including those concerning the length of the working week and days off.
We believe than all Wang and Weng did was report the facts and we condemn Foxconn‘s reaction. We therefore ask you to intercede on behalf of these two journalists so that their assets are unfrozen and the lawsuit is dropped.
We trust you will give this matter your careful consideration.
Sincerely,
Robert Menard
Secretary-General
Reporters Without Borders
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Did you know that Nike calculates the cost of its labor in Indonesia down to the ten-thousandths of a second? The length of every little operation that those poor workers do is calibrated statistically to atomic clock accuracies. I read about that a while ago, and then I saw in the film The Corporation that Phil Knight has never even been to Indonesia. I live about ten blocks away from Nike world headquarters, and, let me tell you, that is some decadent trash they have going on over there. It looks like a fully decked Paramount backlot town or something. It’s totally within the city limits, but its “campus” is actually governed and taxed as a non-municipal area with its own ZIP code, I heard.
Large corporations get incredible incentives from the government, because of course they lower the unemployment rate which the government then takes credit for and gains votes. Some companies get so many tax breaks they don’t actually have to pay for their land; it’s a net gain.
I’ve been in Indonesia, in some very industrial places, and you and I could not live like that. It’s incredible what they have to go through just to get some rice and veggies.