Awave of workers suicides at Chinese factories Apple contractor in 2011 forced local companies to reconsider the level of wages and pay more attention to working conditions, which, coupled with the growth of the Chinese economy has made local labor not so cheap for foreign customers. Foxconn even started to buy robots, so that they could perform some operations on the assembly line, not demanding higher wages.
Meanwhile, the working conditions in Chinese factories and contractors Apple today are far from ideal. This problem has attracted the attention of Western human rights activists, some of them even try to do self-promotion on this topic. As reported by Reuters, who had experience of participation in the electoral race for the presidency of the United States attorney Ralph Nader recently appealed to the leadership of Apple in an open letter, urging not to spend more money to buy back its own shares, and to increase the salaries of employees.
According to Nader, the logo "Designed by Apple in California" should not hide the heavy conditions in which to live and work Chinese workers. They sleep eight people in a dorm room, and work 11 hours a day, receiving no more than a dollar an hour. Representatives of Apple's appeal lawyer have not responded. Apparently, Nader letter is a counterbalance to billionaireCarl Icahn appeals, who has repeatedly campaigned Apple spend more money on stock repurchases.