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: GamePolitics.comSteve Jobs: Foxconn Plant a 'Pretty Nice Place'
By james_fudge
Speaking at the All Things Digital conference this week, Apple CEO Steve Jobs described the Foxconn facility in China where 10 workers jumped to their deaths as "a pretty nice place." Jobs defended the conditions at the plant, saying that it is not a "sweatshop," but did concede that the recent tragedies at the plant were "troubling." Here's a quote:
"You go in this place and it's a factory but, my gosh, they've got restaurants and movie theatres and hospitals and swimming pools. For a factory, it's pretty nice," he said.
Apple says that it, like other companies that use the Chinese manufacturing company to make products and components, is closely monitoring the plant's practices. Read More
Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 02, 2010 (boomark / email).
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