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Apple supplier auditors send mixed messages about Foxconn
It’s been less than a week since Apple sent independent auditors to evaluate its third-party factories in China. The auditors have publicly given hints about what they’re finding, but aren’t getting into specifics. On Friday, the Fair Labor Association, the labor rights group Ap...
Apple Gives Foxconn Workers A Pay Raise, But Will It Help?
What do you do when you’re sitting on a mountain of cash and have a labor condition crisis that has resulted in terrible PR? Give your employees a couple more dollars and hope that satisfies everyone, duh! Apple’s manufacturing partner, Foxconn Technology Group released a statement...
Apple supplier Foxconn again lifts pay for China workers; 16-25 percent increase
Foxconn has raised wages of its Chinese workers by 16-25 percent from this month, the third rise since 2010...
Apple's Giving Foxconn Workers a Raise [Foxconn]
When was the last time you got a 25% raise out of nowhere? Probably not recently! Then again, you probably haven't been laboring for half a day at a time in a Chinese iPad factory under allegedly godawful work conditions.More »
Foxconn's Crazy 130,000 Person Intern Program Actually Sounds Pretty Good! [Foxconn]
Internships suck, whether you're in New York, LA, DC, or wherever. You do menial work for token payment (or none), all in the name of experience. At Foxconn, it's about the same—but you get free housing and more money.More »
FLA President: Foxconn factories 'first-class; way, way above average'
The facilities are first-class; the physical conditions are way, way above average...
Fair Labor Association President Says Foxconn Factory Worker Conditions Are Much Better Than Actual Sweatshops
As most recently referenced in Tim Cook’s comments on worker safety at Goldman Sachs yesterday, Apple is spending a lot of effort in 2012 trying to solve allegations of abuse in their supply chain. This initiative has most recently culminated in Apple going to the unprecedented step of ask...
Apple welcomes Fair Labor Association voluntary inspections to its Foxconn assembly lines
Apple has voluntarily requested that the Fair Labor Association conduct special audits of its final assembly suppliers. Apple has moved very quickly following the damning report by the New York Times last month where workers' rights and safety whilst working on the manufacture and assembly of Ap...
Fair Labor Association begins Foxconn inspections at Apple's request
Apple has announced that the Fair Labor Association will conduct voluntary audits of Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China, at Apple's request. Inspections began Monday in Shenzhen. In a press release issued this morning, Apple CEO Tim Cook said, "The inspections now underway are unp...
Result of iPhone factory outrage: Apple sends more inspectors to Foxconn
Apple announced Monday that it is requesting extra audits of the labor conditions at factories where its iPhones and iPads are built. The inspections will be done by the Fair Labor Association, a labor rights group Apple recently joined, starting Monday at Foxconn’s factory in Shenzhen, Chi...
