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1. Apple iPhone 5 release date rumors: Faster, stronger features
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... call it. The International Business Times reports that a Foxconn recruiter told TVTokyo program "World Business Satellite" that Apple's next iPhone is going to be released in June. According to the recruiter, ...

2. Apple's Chinese factory violations could lead to price hike for customers
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... manufacturer has also promised changes, as Foxconn plans to reduce employee hours by July 1, 2013. If that happens, the work force will need to be increased significantly to continue the current level ...

3. Apple critic Mike Daisey stands by Foxconn iPad factory story
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... fabrications,” the This American Life website states. “This week, we detail the errors in Mike Daisey's story about visiting Foxconn, which makes iPads and other products for Apple in China. Marketplace's ...

4. 'Nightline' tour of Apple factories in China put Foxconn on the spot
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BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM In ABC Nightline anchor Bill Weir’s tour of Apple factories in China that aired Tuesday night, a Foxconn executive supported the idea of doubling the pay of factory ...

5. China Labor Watch calls Apple factory inspections a PR stunt
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... company joined labor group Fair Labor Association a month ago. And according to Bloomberg, the Fair Labor Association began its inspection of Apple’s Foxconn Technology plants in China on Monday. Apple ...

6. Apple customers stand up for social justice
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... conditions in many of Apple’s supplier factories,” said Mark Shields, who launched the campaign on Change.org. “At Foxconn, one of Apple’s biggest manufacturers, there is a history of suicides, abusive ...

7. Fair Labor Practices Please!
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I am so disappointed in your contract with Foxconn! I have been an ardent supporter of Apple products and the ethical practices that you have been admired for. Foxconn allows for abuses that are unAmerican. ...

8. Corrective Action to Labor Abuses
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Apple, you need to renogotiate your contract with Foxconn such that 1)labor abuses are financially penalized 2) labor standards are established to mirror those of the U.S (e.g. 40 hr week). You need ...

9. Apple products come at a cost: Young, overworked employees are suffering
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... factory in Shenzhen, China, owned by a company called Foxconn, which manufactures and assembles electronics for Apple and other electronics makers. The Foxconn plant employs about a million people, some ...