| There's also this: U.S. congresswoman calls out Nike, Apple and Coca-Cola for lobbying against Uighur labour bills Jennifer Wexton says companies are publicly condemning forced labour and privately trying to water down bills https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday... The companies principally who are lobbying ... to have changes to your bills, are Apple, Nike, Coca-Cola [and] the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. What are they trying to do? What changes do they want to make to your laws? Well, I don't know, because they haven't come to me to try to make changes to my piece of legislation, but the word is that they're trying to water down some of the enforcement provisions while publicly proclaiming that they are very much against and condemning forced labour. They're going behind the scenes and trying to change the law. If they're against it, if they say that this is not in their interest, then why would they want to change your bills? Because it's going to impact their supply chains and make it harder for them to profit off of this forced labour. Which means that they're using the forced labour? If they're not using it, it wouldn't be a problem. But, you know, it appears that they are using it. And if they are auditing their supply chains the way they're supposed to, this legislation wouldn't be an issue. |
> According to a document viewed by The New York Times, Apple’s suggested edits to the bill included extending some deadlines for compliance, releasing certain information about supply chains to congressional committees rather than to the public, and requiring Chinese entities to be “designated by the United States government” as helping to surveil or detain Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang.
It’s definitely suspicious that lobbying is being done in secret, but I can’t think of many cases where any lobbying is done in the open.
[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/29/business/economy/nike-coc...