While Apple Inc. is enjoying hot worldwide sales of its fashionable electronics, its health and environmental responsibilities through foreign subcontracts have come under fire
Chinese workers suffering from achemical poisoning at United WinTechnology, one of Apple Inc.’s supplierfactories at the Suzhou IndustrialPark in east China’s Jiangsu Province, metwith the factory’s leaders for the first timeon February 26.
The factory, which is owned by TaiwanbasedWintek Corp., promised to provideaid if the workers’ symptoms reoccur in thefuture. But such a response failed to bringthorough relief to poisoned workers.