Marketplace correspondent Rob Schmitz, who gained attention for challenging Mike Daisey's accounts of working conditions in China, has been granted exclusive access by Apple and Foxconn to record the Continue reading…
Instagram's buyout has prompted the usual internet backlash that occurs whenever Facebook touches something, but do we really know what's happening or why? That's the question that Paul Ford and Matt Continue reading…
A reporter has been granted rare access to Foxconn's Longhua iPad production facility in Shenzhen, China, as questions are starting to be raised about why the spotlight is falling on Apple for Continue reading…
Foxconn might have been forced to make some changes as its labor conditions were put under the spotlight by the media, but one group seems less than happy with the limitations put upon working hours: Continue reading…
The Fair Labor association has just released its anticipated report on its investigation of Apple's labor conditions at the Foxconn factories in China. The FLA is an independent organization that A Continue reading…
Following Tim Cook's meetings with China's Executive Vice-Premier Li Keqiang earlier this week, the Apple CEO took a trip to Zhengzhou to check out the new Foxconn manufacturing facility and its Continue reading…
The ongoing and complicated debate over the ethics of electronics manufacturing has ramped up of late, inspired in part by Apple's efforts at transparency on the topic, which have included reports, Continue reading…
Although there may not have been any shocking new revelations from last night's Nightline report on Foxconn's factories, Apple and others have issued some small corrections and statements. The most Continue reading…
Auret van Heerden, CEO of the Fair Labor Association, has issued some damning language today directed at Foxconn near the conclusion of an audit of factory conditions that had been requested by Apple Continue reading…
At Apple's request, the Fair Labor Association (FLA) will begin conducting audits of the company's assembly suppliers, including Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, China. The first inspections Continue reading…
