THOUSANDS of students in an east China city are being forced to work at a Foxconn plant after classes were suspended at the beginning of the new semester, it has been revealed. Students from Huai'an in Jiangsu Province were driven to a factory in the city run by Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Company after the plant couldn't find sufficient workers for the production of Apple's much-anticipated iPhone 5, they said in online posts.
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ati0597 36 weeks 3 days 22 hours 45 min ago
And i wonder how much of the money apple makes selling the phone these students get. It is sad how kids are taken out of something that could make their life better to go do something that will set them back. Not to mention the fact that we don't even think about things like this in our country. We get to take advantage and a for granted so many things that we don't have to fear. Our country may be far from perfect, but at least we don't have to worry about this.