A Foxconn worker speaks out about factory conditions
Since the beginning of this year, a number of media outlets have reported on working conditions at Foxconn, the company that makes electronics for high-profile companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple. Although the reports have been disputed by companies, they paint a picture of long hours, poor safety, and unfair treatment for many of the company’s 1.2 million employees. Now, a CNN reporter has interviewed an 18-year-old student who works 60-hour weeks manufacturing iPads in a Chengdu factory. The worker, known as “Miss Chen,” says that the restaurant she was interviewed at is the first she’s been to since starting work at the factory, where she also eats and sleeps. The CNN meeting was also, she said, the first time she had seen a finished iPad.
