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		<title>Apple’s Profit Skyrockets, Workers Die at Its Factories</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hours after Apple released its first quarter earnings, which showed a mind-blowing 44.7 percent profit, the New York Times published another in a series of articles illustrating some of the reasons behind Apple’s profit margin. Describing the conditions in which Chinese workers assemble iPhones, iPads and a panoply of Apple products, the report states: Employees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strike Action Shows the Broad Range of Worker Dissatisfaction Across China</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protests have erupted over the last week in a wide range of industries and locations across China, indicating that worker unrest is far from confined to just the manufacturing heartland of the Pearl River Delta. Several hundred workers at an electronics factory in Taicang, Jiangsu, reportedly went out on strike for two days from 28 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Deadly Labor Behind Our Phones, Laptops and Consumer Gadgets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 03:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world’s largest electronics manufacturer, Foxconn Technology Group, has a plan for ending the grisly run of worker suicides that have drawn it unwanted attention over the past two years: replace human workers with one million robots. It seems the best way to interrupt rising global outrage over worker abuse in iPhone factories is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ssangyoung motors workers&#8217; suicides</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 02:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editorial: Breaking the gridlock at Ssangyong There have been a string of recent suicides among workers laid off by Ssangyong Motor, which enacted a mass-layoff in 2009 followed by a 77-day strike and brutal crackdown. One after another has departed this world, unable to handle the agonizing realities of life that followed their dismissal from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysian Electronics Workers Secure Union Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 07:12:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[January 27, 2011 was a victorious day in the long struggle of the Malaysian electronics workers to join a union of their choice. An historic milestone was reached when ST Microelectronics workers, a majority of them women workers, voted in favour to join the newly formed Electronics Industry Workers&#8217; Union (Southern Region). The journey to this [...]]]></description>
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