Apple’s Dependence on China in Its Supply Chain: An Investigative Report on Foxconn Zhengzhou
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China Labor Watch Raises Serious Concerns Over Alleged Labor Violations at Foxconn iPhone 17 Factory
China Labor Watch Investigation Reveals Labor Conditions at Foxconn Zhengzhou Raises Labor Rights Concerns in Apple’s iPhone 17 Supply Chain. Report finds over half of workforce are dispatch workers, with other issues include wage withholding, excessive overtime, discrimination, and dispatch workers with student status forced onto night shifts. New York, September 25, 2025 — China Labor Watch (CLW) today released a new investigative report, Apple’s Dependence on China in Its Supply Chain: An Investigation of Foxconn Zhengzhou. During the manufacturing…
How the Responsible Business Alliance Fails Workers: Recurrent Labor Risks in Foxconn Factories and RBA-Member Companies
The Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) claims to set leading standards for onsite compliant audits. Yet, its member companies keep failing to prevent serious labor risks, and the RBA continues to ignore China Labor Watch’s (CLW) request for increased transparency. Since January 2024, CLW and nine other civil society groups have been actively engaging the RBA on the disconnect between their audit findings and the reality on the ground for workers. While we have called on the RBA to introduce transparency…
Zhengzhou Foxconn Coerces Employees To Work On iPhone 14 Production Amid Covid-19 Outbreak, While Hiding The Number Of Sick Workers
Updates : As a wave of discontent and fear spread over the COVID curbs inside Zhengzhou Foxconn, many workers decided to flee the factory to avoid being forced into quarantine with insufficient necessities. As a result, a large exodus of workers emerged. Videos showing massive workers returning to their hometowns on foot have been filling social media these two weeks. According to The Washington Post, one Foxconn employee estimated that around 60,000 workers have left. Quelling the discontent among Foxconn…
Apple’s Failed CSR Audit ：A Report on Catcher Technology Polluting the Environment and Harming the Health of Workers
Download the report Executive Summary Catcher Technology (Suqian) Co Ltd. is a world leader in the light metal industry, specializing in notebook computers, digital cameras, and disc drives. Headquartered in Taiwan, the company has set up a number of mainland branches. Catcher manufactures products for Apple, IBM, Dell, HP, and Sony, amongst other well-known brand companies. In 2014, China Labor Watch released an investigation report at Catcher Technology, which outlined a string of rights violations including discriminatory hiring policies, lack of…
A Year of Regression in Apple’s Supply Chain
Download the report A Year of Regression in Apple’s Supply Chain Pursuing Profits at the Cost of Working Conditions Problems in Apple’s Supply Chain Since 2011, China Labor Watch (CLW) has been following the working conditions in Apple’s supply chain. In 2016, CLW conducted undercover investigations and interviews in four of Apple’s largest suppliers (Foxconn, Pegatron, Compel, and Green Point). CLW’s investigators entered Foxconn, Pegatron, and Compel as regular employees, collecting over 2000 paystubs in these plants.…
Apple is the Source of Mistreatment of Chinese Workers
Download the report Apple makes big profits but Chinese workers’ wage are on the slide This report is based on 2015 paystubs from Pegatron, collected by China Labor Watch (CLW) in the past 12 months, in addition to CLW’s investigation of the factory. Pegatron Shanghai is one of Apple’s largest supplier of the Iphone, currently employing around 60,000 workers and is currently manufacturing the IPhone 7. The investigation period is from 2015 until August 2016. Through careful examination of all…
Study Casts Doubts on Apple’s Ethical Standards
Download the report Introduction In 2013, China Labor Watch (CLW) began investigating the labor conditions of workers at Pegatron Corporation factories in China making products for Apple. In February 2015, CLW published a research report based on analysis of 96 pay stubs collected from workers of Pegatron Shanghai, discovering difference between the working hours which Apple publicly promotes and the reality on the production line. This year, CLW collected 1,261 pay stubs from Pegatron Shanghai workers, 13 times as many…
Something’s Not Right Here: Poor Working Conditions Persist at Apple Supplier Pegatron
Download the report Executive Summary In an interview with PBS journalist Charlie Rose in September 2014, Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked what values he considers most important beyond those of Apple.[1] Mr. Cook responded: Treating people with dignity. Treating people the same. That everyone deserves a basic level of human rights, regardless of their color, regardless of their religion, regardless of their sexual orientation, regardless of their gender. That everyone deserves respect. Right now, in Shanghai, China, a factory…
Analyzing Labor Conditions of Pegatron and Foxconn: Apple’s Low-Cost Reality
download the report REPORT SUMMARY 1. Apple consistently suppresses labor costs by shifting production to cheaper manufacturers While Apple earns huge profits, labor costs are relatively low. Apple shifted production orders from Foxconn to cheaper Pegatron in order to offset Foxconn’s rising labor costs. In 2014, Pegatron Shanghai still possessed about an 8% cost advantage over Foxconn Longhua, translating into a $61 million annual advantage at just one of many Pegatron factories that service Apple. 报告摘要 1. 苹果通过将订单转到低成本供应商的方式压低劳工成本 苹果高利润的同时劳工成本却相对较低 苹果不断将订单从富士康转移至成本更低的和硕以抵消富士康劳工成本的上升…
Exploitation: Apple Supplier Jabil Exploits Workers to Meet iPhone 6 Demands
Download the report Executive Summary Sales of the iPhone 6 have reached record highs. At the Jabil Circuit factory in Wuxi, China (hereafter “Jabil Wuxi” or “Jabil”), which supplies iPhone 6 covers to Apple, pressure has increased on workers to turn out more and more phone covers to meet demand, laboring mandatorily for 11 hours per day, six to seven days a week, under unsafe and high pressure working conditions. Yet even after accumulating up to 158 hours of overtime…
Two Years of Broken Promises
DOWNLOAD THE REPORT Executive Summary This report represents the findings of an investigator who worked at Catcher Technology in Suqian, China. The plant manufactures metal casings for a number of consumer electronics companies including Apple, Inc. While at the factory, the investigator worked on parts for the latest iPad[1]. Catcher Technology also produces iPhone 6 parts in its factories in Suqian and Taizhou. The investigator discovered extensive violations of Chinese labor laws, as well as violations of Catcher’s policies and…