Auret van Heerden, the president of the Fair Labor Association (or FLA) has issued a statement today ahead of the organization's expected final report on the working conditions at Apple’s top eight suppliers, most notably Foxconn. van Heerden's remarks pertain to Foxconn following a visit of several days' to the factory. Preliminarily, van Heerden says, the factories are "first-class."
In January, Apple voluntarily joined the FLA, an independent, non-profit organization which conducts random checks of factories and then issues reports on the working conditions found there, and then a few days ago announced it had requested a voluntary inspection of the factories. Apple's joining of the FLA didn't arrive without criticism, and Wired reported that in fact, the FLA is a somewhat controversial organization. The FLA's plan is to send 30 of its representatives to two different Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and Chengdu, each with about 100,000 workers.
http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/15/2800394/apple-factory-inspectors-offer-positive-spin-on-foxconn-conditions/in/2549489
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