Sigh. You're lying again. central_va. As I've pointed to you out over 100 times in various threads where you've posted your lies, the 18 "suicides" in an 18 month period in 2010-2011, are a suicide rate of less than 1 in 100,000 per year. Compare that to a suicide rate among a similar cohort of young people in the same age grouping in Ivy League colleges of 11 per 100,000 in the United States in the same period. . . or a overall Suicide rate in China of 19 per 100,000 in the entire population.
Add to that the fact that what few suicides there were, were in plants manufacturing Microsoft Xboxes, Hewlett Packard Computers, Sony Playstation, and Nokia Phones, NOT ANY APPLE PRODUCTS at all. In fact, the nearest Foxconn plant making any Apple products was 125 miles away from where any of the suicides in that minor spate of suicides among over 750,000 employees occurred.
As for "slave labor," the employees at Foxconn are employees, especially on Apple assembly lines, earning the US equivalent of between $2.80 and $3.60 per hour, a 30% differential over the hourly rate paid to workers on assembly lines working on Consumer Electronics being made for other brands. Applicants for work on Apple's assembly lines queue up by the tens thousands to apply for these jobs because of the better working conditions and pay that Apple assures and monitors on those jobs.
Once you were shown the actual truth, in fact over a hundred of times, central_va, your repetition of the false claims turn into REPEATED LIES. . . You are either doing it deliberately or you are incapable of learning. Which is it? Deliberately being dishonest, or stupidity?
Th point is the whole she-bang cold move back to the USA, employ lots of Americans and Apple and its stock holders would be fine. American workers first.