Apple Faces Fresh Criticism of Factories

Hilmar Schmundt and Bernhard Zand Spiegel Online International
Apple might have abandoned manufacturing supplier Foxconn in the wake of a scandal over deplorable working conditions in its Chinese factories, but it seems that labor rights violations are also rife at Pegatron, its new partner.

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Can We Trust Foxconn’s New ‘Democratic’ Chinese Factories?

Michelle Chen In These Times
Foxconn has announced that workers will be able to vote for union representatives at their factories. The plan, according to news reports, is to allow workers to elect “junior workers” to represent them in a union leadership structure historically dominated by management and officials.

Labor Wins—in China

Harold Meyerson Talking Union
Chinese workers to vote on union leadership.
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