Reprint of New York Times article March 19, 2012 Activist Said to Be Missing in China By DIDI KIRSTEN TATLOW BEIJING —Liu Ping, a rights activist who has angered officials in China with her advocacy of free elections and support of labor and women’s rights issues, has been missing since early this month after she …
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My Bet: Apple Makes China’s Foxconn Blink
New Orleans Foxconn, the huge Chinese manufacturing operation that provides the sweat and often the blood and tears that go into making all of the fancy and expensive Apple products, announced huge wage increases of more than 25% (bringing workers up to $400 per month!) and reductions of overtime in plants where workers sometimes work …
Van Heerden Must Resign, Apple Must Replace Fair Labor Association
New Orleans In the space of days the attempt by the giant Apple Computer company, that, let’s be honest, knows better, to scam consumers by foisting off a so-called monitoring outfit that it has bought and paid for, has gone from being controversial to being simply pathetic. The news today has the Fair Labor Association’s …