Author: By Terril Yue Jones
The Fair Labor Assosciaton (FLA) is beginning a study of the working conditions of Apple's top 8 suppliers in china, following reports of worker suicides, a plant explosion, and slave like conditions at one of those suppliers, Foxconn Technology Group.
Auret van Heerden, president of FLA offered no imediate conclusions on the working conditions, but he noted that boredom and alienation could have contributed to the stress that led some workers to take there own life