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Foxconn workers go on strike over iphone 5 working conditions

Thousands of factory workers at Foxconn went on strike Friday to protest their working conditions on the iPhone 5's production lines, according to a report from an independent workers' rights organization.

Workers at Foxconn's plant in Zhengzhou, China, were furious after management enacted "overly strict demands" for production of Apple's(AAPL, Fortune 500) new iPhone 5, according to a report late Friday from China Labor Watch (CLW), a New York-based advocacy group that works closely with sources in China.

The trouble began after workers were given new, impossibly strict standards, demanding precision down to increments as small as two-hundredths of a millimeter, according to CLW.
"Employees could not even turn out iPhones that met the standard," CLW's report said, because of "design defects" in the iPhone 5.
Foxconn's exacting demands, coupled with the fact that workers were not allowed to take vacation time during a recent week-long holiday, created a high-pressure situation. Workers and inspectors clashed in fights that sometimes turned physical, the CLW said, with some hospitalized as a result.

 These people are treated no better than indentured servants yet consumers in America and Europe are blissfully ignorant of the conditions Foxconn employee's are  forced to endure just so they can have the latest iPhone or iPad.