Apple Stock Breaks $500 - Labor Breaks $2 Per Hour

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Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod... and then those Mac computers.  Can Apple do anything wrong?  The stock market seems to think not as Apple shares closed over $500 yesterday.

Still, the Apple got a few bruises about their labor practices in China.

Apple announced Monday a non-profit labor group has started examining working conditions at some of its suppliers in China, as the company tries to calm a growing storm over how the workers who build iPads and iPhones are treated. [source]

And here we thought sweatshops were vestiges of the 19th century.

Wasn't this old news?

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