China: Foxconn workers take big risks to flee COVID lockdown
02 November 2022 |
2:47 pm
An exodus of workers from the world's largest iPhone factory has drawn new attention to China's draconian COVID policy and should be a "red flag" for Apple on the state of labor rights in the country, activists say.
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