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Article

26 Aug 2011

Author:
Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior [Hong Kong]

Poisoned Workers Demand Steve Jobs Successor to Live Up to CSR [China]

The poisoned workers at Wintek, an Apple supplier…have been awaiting a response from Steve Jobs, the former CEO of Apple…The poisoned workers hope the new Apple CEO, Tim Cook, will live up to the corporate social responsibility and provide them remedies…A strike erupted at the Taiwanese-owned electronics manufacturer Wintek, which produces touch screens for the iPhone, in early 2010…[A]bout 200 of them were poisoned by the chemical called n-hexane which leads to nerve damage…The company stated there were 137 workers hospitalized due to the poisoning and that all of them had been successfully treated. In reality, 2 years on after the poisoning, the workers still feel weak and suffer from symptoms of relapse including sweaty hands and feet, and leg cramps…The massive poisoning at Wintek is a serious breach of the labour law and Apple’s code of conduct. Corporate social responsibility is no more than rhetoric if there is no remedy to the workers for the code infringement...