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Apple's Broken Promises Monday 2nd March, 8.30pm When they fall asleep that way again and again, that means that the conditions of work are totally and physically intolerable. - Ralph Nader Apple is the most valuable brand on the planet, making products consumers love to buy. But how does this company treat its workers? The BBC's Panorama program goes undercover inside the factory in China that makes the big-selling Apple iPhone 6. Apple has made promises to protect the workers in factories that supply their products. Undercover cameras show a very different picture. It's impossible they don't know the issues. We have repeatedly pointed out the problems in our reports but we have seen almost no improvement. - Li Qiang, China Labour Watch It isn't just the factories that create questionable conditions for health and safety. Reporter Richard Bilton goes to Indonesia to see the abysmal conditions of miners and their children working to gather tin used in electronic products. Apple says it doesn't knowingly buy tin from illegal miners, but the people who make their living mining and smelting tin tell a quite different story. "I worry about landslides." - 12 year old boy working with his father in the tin mines of Bangka, Indonesia Is this powerful company really doing all it can to protect the people who make its products? Or is their promise of being a good global corporate citizen a sham? You can see excerpts from the program on our Facebook page. APPLE'S BROKEN PROMISES, reported by Richard Bilton and presented by Kerry O'Brien, goes to air on Monday 2nd March at 8.30pm on ABC. It is replayed on Tuesday 3rd March at 10.00am and Wednesday 4th March at midnight. It can also be seen onABC News 24 on Saturday at 8.00pm and ABC iview . abc.net.au/4corners

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