This document summarizes a lawsuit against several major tech companies for aiding and abetting mining companies that profited from child labor in dangerous mining conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The document argues that while the tech companies claim ignorance of the labor practices, it is unlikely they did not properly vet their mining partners. It draws parallels between the current situation of foreign companies exploiting Congo's resources with little local benefit to the colonial era. In concluding, it notes the specifics of the lawsuit and conditions in Congo will be covered by another speaker.
This document summarizes a lawsuit against several major tech companies for aiding and abetting mining companies that profited from child labor in dangerous mining conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The document argues that while the tech companies claim ignorance of the labor practices, it is unlikely they did not properly vet their mining partners. It draws parallels between the current situation of foreign companies exploiting Congo's resources with little local benefit to the colonial era. In concluding, it notes the specifics of the lawsuit and conditions in Congo will be covered by another speaker.
This document summarizes a lawsuit against several major tech companies for aiding and abetting mining companies that profited from child labor in dangerous mining conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The document argues that while the tech companies claim ignorance of the labor practices, it is unlikely they did not properly vet their mining partners. It draws parallels between the current situation of foreign companies exploiting Congo's resources with little local benefit to the colonial era. In concluding, it notes the specifics of the lawsuit and conditions in Congo will be covered by another speaker.
This document summarizes a lawsuit against several major tech companies for aiding and abetting mining companies that profited from child labor in dangerous mining conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The document argues that while the tech companies claim ignorance of the labor practices, it is unlikely they did not properly vet their mining partners. It draws parallels between the current situation of foreign companies exploiting Congo's resources with little local benefit to the colonial era. In concluding, it notes the specifics of the lawsuit and conditions in Congo will be covered by another speaker.
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A very warm Good morning to the respected jury members, teacher coordinators and all the
participants who like almost all of us are aspiring to be apple, microsoft or tesla employees in the future and why shouldn’t we? The Work life balance, healthy Culture, Handsome Salaries, humongous brand name , amazing career growth, they offer everything . They offer everything an employee could ask for. Well, unless you are an employee from Africa of course. It is true that the miners are not under direct purview of these companies but these companies are harbouring smaller mining companies who are knowingly violating labour rights. the bigger companies could say they didn’t know but we find it really hard to believe that such mega companies didn’t properly vet the mining companies like Zhejiang Cobalt and Glencore, who own the minefields where the Congolese families allege their children worked and the off chance they really didn’t know, it shows how little they care about people as long as they are making profits out of it. The lawsuit argues that Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla all aided and abetted the mining companies that profited from the labour of children who were forced to work in dangerous conditions – conditions that ultimately led to death and serious injury. The families argue in the court papers that all companies named as defendants entered into commercial “ventures” with the mining companies operating in DRC, and all gained significant financial advantages from the widespread illegal mining of cobalt by children, which continues to enter global supply chains. I mean obviously, you don’t pay your labourers, you don’t pay the ones you are paying enough money, you are going save a truck load of money? Lately, it seems that the chasm between the uber-wealthy and the average is the greatest we’ve seen since the era of colonization . We’ll get to the companies in some time but , era of colonization? Is that what’s happening right now a modern, revolutionised form of that- neo imperialism , the violent rush to extract cobalt is unleashing a new cycle of misery and foreign domination in one of the world’s poorest nations. Massive industrial mining operations — mostly Chinese-owned — have moved into Congo, intent on dominating the country. The big mines are accused of corruption, poisoning the locals and exploiting Congo’s resources with little benefit for the country. This is a modern world where almost all countries have their own Constitution but big MNCs coming to your country, exploiting your resources, your land, your people, your labour, your health, isn’t that a story we have seen before? Isn’t that what the east India company did to us Indians? These MNCs are going to trap countries like congo in their net, they are going to bring them down to a disguised dominion status and will begin a reign of imperialism. But that’s the bigger picture, in the meantime to get specific of this lawsuit and the condition of Congo .I’d like my teammate to take over
