Debby Chan, outside the gates of one of Foxconn's two factories in Shenzhen, China, works for the Hong Kong-based worker rights group, Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior or SACOM.
(Credit: Jay Greene/CNET)
HONG KONG -- Debby Chan may not have the answer to the terribly complex issues facing workers at the giant Chinese contract manufacturing plants where iPhones are assembled.
But she has plenty of questions.
Chan's modest office here, shared with another human rights activist, is cluttered with books and papers. Posters hang from the walls, questioning the legitimacy of Burma's 2010 elections. There's another of an iPhone with a graphic on the screen, a worker carrying the Apple logo on his back with blood flowing from his mouth, under the words "No more iSlave."
And on a cabinet, there's a picture of Chinese dissident Li Wangyang, who spent 11 years in prison for "counter-revolutionary propaganda and incitement," and died on June 6 under suspicious conditions. The government called his hanging a suicide, though his family and other activists suspect authorities, threatened by his activism, are responsible.
More than any activist, Chan has been calling attention to the labor rights abuses at Foxconn. Her group, Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior or SACOM, has aggressively documented the working conditions at Foxconn's plants in Zhengzhou ... [Read more]
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