Apple ‘Determined’ to Improve Conditions at Plants in China
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday said that the world’s most valuable tech company is doing everything it can to address growing concerns over working conditions at its Chinese manufacturing plants.
“We know people have a very high expectation of Apple,” he told hundreds of investment professionals at the annual Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco. “No one in our industry is doing more to improve working conditions than Apple.”
Cook’s comments came one day after the announcement that an independent watchdog group, the Fair Labor Association, has begun auditing conditions at plants in China that make most of Apple’s products, including iPhones and iPads.
Cook called it “probably the most detailed factory audit in the history of mass manufacturing.” Apple is taking the “unprecedented step” of recording the results monthly on its website, he said.