Apple's China factories under investigation
Quick ReadA team from the Fair Labor Association began the inspections a troubled Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, China. The complex employs and houses hundreds of thousands of workers.
Photo credit: AP | Agents of Change.org, from left, Sarah Ryan, and Shelby Knox, arrive at the Apple store in Grand Central Terminal to deliver petitions asking Apple to change its manufacturing practices and to poor worker conditions at its plants in China. (Feb. 9, 2012)
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Apple said Monday that an independent group, the Fair Labor Association, has started inspecting working conditions in the Chinese factories where its iPads and iPhones are assembled.
Amid growing criticism over labor and environmental practices --especially in China-- Apple, last month, disclosed a list of suppliers for its popular gadgets for the first time.
The FLA team began the inspections...
