Recent reporting by our partner The New York Times raised fresh concerns over the safety and well-being of the workers that staff Apple’s supplier factories in China. Apple now says that it has requested an independent labor group to audit the conditions at its suppliers’ factories, with the first inspections under way starting yesterday. David Barboza is Shanghai business correspondent for The New York Times.
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