Mainland China = communist.
Foxcom = sweatshop.
“Even if the lowest earners do the maximum available overtime of 80 hours per month, they still do not earn enough to pay tax.
Previous reports have claimed that some of the workers were doing 24 hours at a time, while others were forced to stand for their entire shifts.
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What is not the truth? Those conditions would not be tolerated in this country. Company charges low end workers for food, housing and even clothing? Suicide nets?
What is that in Apple speak nirvana?
Indentured servitude - really?
Spin the ‘truth” all want but it is a stain on Apple to use companies that treat humans in this manner.
What is not the truth? That head line for your linked article from Great Britain is "Inside Apple's Chinese 'sweatshop' factory where workers are paid just £1.12 per hour to produce iPhones and iPads for the West"
The cost of living in China has to be considered in the figure. Chinese cost of living is somewhere about 10 times lower than the cost of living in the United States. Just printing the hourly wage, which is the starting wage for a new hire, tells one absolutely NOTHING as a comparison between economies. Converting that British currency to American is $1.77. However that is NOT reflective of the Apple assembly lines, where the workers get two times that amount as starting wages ($3.55 per hour) and average even more, per the Apple contracts. The highest wages are seven times the Chinese national minimum wage. That also does not count overtime which workers can opt to work up to 36 hours per month. . . and have been complaining they are not allow more.
As for your FLEXTRONICS article, that was one of the companies that Apple pulled their contract from for violation of their worker requirements.