Apple CEO Tim Cook Visits Foxconn's iPhone Plant In China [View all]

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Last edited Thu Mar 29, 2012, 04:15 PM - Edit history (2)

Source: Reuters

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple Inc's Tim Cook, on his first trip to China as the chief executive officer, has visited an iPhone production plant run by the Foxconn Technology Group, which is being accused of improper labor practices.

China is the world's largest mobile market and already Apple's second-biggest market overall, but its growth there is clouded by issues ranging from a contested iPad trademark to treatment of local labor.

Picture handouts dated March 28 and e-mailed to Reuters show Cook seen smiling and meeting workers in the newly built Foxconn ZhengzhouTechnology Park in the north central province of Hebei. The facility employs 120,000 people, the handouts said.

Foxconn is a major part of Apple's global supply chain, assembling most of its iPhones and iPads, but has been hit by a string of worker suicides in recent years that activist groups blame on tough working conditions.



Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/29/apple-ceo-visits-foxconn_n_1387064.html

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(vice premier Li Keqiang) hoped multinational companies would pay more concern to their Chinese workers.

In response to criticism of the working conditions at Foxconn’s plants in China, Apple has defended its policies and opened up its Chinese supplier factories for an internal audit by a labor rights group. (Which Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Dell, HP, Samsung, Asus, and all other major electronics makers have refused to do)

http://www.macworld.com/article/1166122/chinese_leader_asks_apples_tim_cook_to_care_for_workers.html


I hear that Mike Daisey was outside the gate, across the ocean, and in his upscale New York apartment, where he witnessed the entire thing.