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Foxconn Chief Says Apple Will Share Cost of Improving Factory Conditions

John Paczkowski in News on May 10 at 9:45 am PT

Another step forward in Apple’s effort to improve working conditions at factories in which devices like the iPhone and iPad are built.

Voices

Apple Supplier to Raise Taiwan Wages

Lorraine Luk, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 5 at 6:30 am PT

Apple Inc. supplier Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. plans to raise wages for its employees in Taiwan “significantly” to better attract and retain talent, a company spokesman said Thursday.

Voices

Tim Cook Visits China and Brings Back Some Ideas (Comic)

Voices in Voices on March 30 at 3:20 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.

Fair Labor Association Wins Some OT Relief for Apple’s Foxconn Workers

John Paczkowski in News on March 29 at 1:40 pm PT

The FLA finds some violations, but wins some concessions.

Lying Apple Gadfly Mike Daisey Still Doesn’t Get It

Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 19 at 4:18 pm PT

Mike Daisey — the lying, Apple-attacking monologuist — is still trying to seize the moral high ground on the matter of Apple, Foxconn and workers’ rights in China.

The Failures and Fallacies of Mike Daisey’s Apple Attack and the Media

Arik Hesseldahl in Media on March 18 at 6:06 am PT

Now we have to start the conversation about Apple and Foxconn and workers’ rights all over again, this time with real, verifiable facts at our command. Is that so much to ask?

News Byte

“This American Life” Retracts Critical Apple-Foxconn Report

John Murrell in News on March 16 at 10:50 am PT

Producers of the public radio program “This American Life” said today that they were retracting an earlier report critical of working conditions in the Chinese plants of Apple supplier Foxconn because it contained “significant fabrications” by narrator Mike Daisey. In a program scheduled to air Sunday, host Ira Glass will talk with Daisey about “why he misled ‘This American Life’ during the fact-checking process,” and will conclude by “separating fact from fiction, when it comes to Apple’s manufacturing practices in China.” Daisey defended his work, saying, “My show is a theatrical piece. … What I do is not journalism.”