Former Apple Factory Workers Write Letter Urging Action

Two former Apple factory workers — Guo Rui-Qiang and Jia Jing-Chuan — have written a letter detailing how their working conditions led to health problems and urging readers to sign an online petition to get Apple to upgrade conditions.

Here is more from the letter: “In early 2010, it was independently confirmed that 137 workers, including us, were poisoned by a chemical called n-hexane which was used to clean iPhone screens. N-hexane is known to cause eye, skin and respiratory tract irritation, and leads to persistant nerve damage.

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