Apple Boss At Plant Run By Under-Fire Foxconn<br /><br />6Comments <br /><br />Brand expert David Haigh says Tim Cook's visit to China is about protecting Apple's reputation<br /><br />7:01pm UK, Thursday March 29, 2012<br />Apple chief executive Tim Cook has visited an iPhone production plant run by Foxconn Technology Group, which has faced widespread criticism over its treatment of workers.<br /><br />Allegations of abuse stretch back to 2010 when 13 workers apparently committed suicide at one plant amidst claims that the company ran military-style production lines on which employees were forced to work overtime for low wages.<br />In 2011, Foxconn again faced criticism after a fire at another plant left four people dead.<br />Foxconn factories across China assemble most of Apple's iPhones and iPads.<br />They describe their daily routine as work, eat and sleep. They described themselves as machines that repeated the same monotonous motion for thousands (of) times a day.
