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Reuters: Foxconn Plant Workers To Get 30 Percent Raise

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Tags: Apple Inc, China, Foxconn, Steve Jobs, Sweatshop

Production line workers at Foxconn's southern China manufacturing hub will get a 30 percent pay rise, as top customer Apple Inc called recent suicides at the plant troubling but said the site was "not a sweatshop."

The string of deaths at the site have focused attention on working conditions in a region experiencing growing labor unrest. In his first public comments on the problem, Apple CEO Steve Jobs expressed his concern.

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