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In reply to the discussion: If you buy Apple products you are part of the problem [View all]Buckeye_Democrat
(15,526 posts)... has better resources and manpower to keep tabs on both domestic and overseas issues. This country has used the carrot and stick many times regarding wrongdoing in other countries.
It's indeed not easy. Corporations even in this country hide problems all the time. There was a massive explosion at a company where I used to work, the result of a manager shutting off an LEL (lower explosive limit) monitor because he felt the alarms and shut-downs were slowing down production too much. It was truly a miracle that nobody was killed or even injured by fire or the heavy access doors blowing off the oven. (An oven about as big as a football field.) So the managers rushed outside to meet the local fire department, telling them it was a minor incident under control... and that's what the fire department reported as well. Then everyone was warned to shut their mouths or face consequences, and that's what happened too. (If anyone was actually hurt, I doubt the workers would've complied.)