This week the BBC will present a documentary called Apple's Broken Promises, or the promises not kept by Apple, and through it it will show how difficult the working conditions are in the factories of the American company's partners. The ones from the BBC they did it to gain access to the factories where iPhone 6 components are produced and where assembly is done, all in an attempt to show the whole world what is behind the over 100 billion dollars earned annually by Apple.
Apple is the most valuable brand on the planet, making products that everyone wants – but how are its workers treated when the world isn't looking? Panorama goes undercover in China to show what life is like for the workers making the iPhone 6. And it's not just the factories. Reporter Richard Bilton travels to Indonesia to find children working in some of the most dangerous mines in the world. But is the tin they dig out by hand finding its way into Apple's products?
The one-hour documentary will be broadcast on December 18 in Great Britain and it is not the first of its kind made by an important television from around the world, the ones in the USA attacking the Apple company in the past. Apple has been widely criticized by the world press for the difficult working conditions in which the employees of its partner factories work and although it does not pay or care for them directly, it has been accused of continuing to finance companies that treat employees incorrectly.
The documentary comes after a long period in which Tim Cook campaigned intensely for equality in the workplace and providing equal opportunities for employees of large companies, but this does not seem to apply to Apple's partners as well. The American company has sanctioned its partners who do not treat their employees fairly, but it cannot give up on all those who do, and the best example is Foxconn, which will not soon be forgotten.
