China-based Apple plant talks union access

giant Foxconn, a Taiwanese firm that makes the iPhone, iPad and other Apple products in China, plans to offer its huge workforce greater representation in trade unions dominated by company management and Communist party functionaries.

The announcement comes as Foxconn has found itself dealing with an increasingly restive workforce that has complained publicly about working conditions.

Several workers at Foxconn, mainland China’s largest private-sector employer with 1.5 million workers, committed suicide in 2009-10 at the vast factory complexes where employees both live and work.

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