SupplierResponsibility Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

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by Mike Schramm (Feb 14th, 2013)

Apple releases a list of all of its hardware supplier partners about once a year, as part of its Supplier Responsibility program. But the most recent list of suppliers included not only company names, but also addresses for each, and so a site called ChinaFile took all of those addresses and ...

Made For iPhone manufacturers may have to comply with Apple's supplier responsibility code

by Michael Rose (Nov 8th, 2012)

There's no gaggle of satellite trucks or eager liveblogs documenting every moment, but one of the most important Apple-related events is going on right now in Shenzhen, China: the annual MFi (Made For iPhone/iPad/iPod) manufacturers' conference. This multi-day meeting is the interface, so to ...

Apple supplier shows 95% overtime compliance in March 2012

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 19th, 2012)

Apple maintains a supplier responsibly report on its website and recently added some new statistics that show overtime working conditions are improving in its factories. Noticed by The Next Web, Apple is now seeing 95 percent compliance with its 60-hour work week requirement. This is up from 89 ...

Apple updates report on supplier working conditions

by Steven Sande (Mar 20th, 2012)

It probably wasn't Mike Daisey's fabricated "theatrical work" that moved Apple to work on improving working conditions for employees at overseas suppliers, but even if it wasn't, the company is doing a great job of making good on their plans to help those employees. Apple is providing monthly ...