See How Apple Products Are Made in China

If you want to see how Apple products are made in China, ABCNews announced that Nightline will show the inside of Chinese factories that manufacture the iPhone and iPad in a special feature with exclusive access to Apple’s supplier factories in China. This Special Edition will air on Tuesday, February 21 at 11:35 p.m. EST on ABC (8:35 p.m. PST).

Apple, the #1 company in America, has been extremely profitable and also very secretive − until now. ABC’s Nightline crew got a look at the iPhone and iPad production lines, met with employees and learned about their lives. Now, you can, too.

As a result of seven assembly-line worker suicides last May, a number of Chinese sociologists protested, calling for an end to the regimented, restrictive working conditions they characterized as “a model where fundamental human dignity is sacrificed for development.” Since then, anti-suicide netting, aka jumper netting, line the factory around the huge worker dormitories in Shenzhen.

The New York Times announced Saturday that Foxconn Technology would raise worker salaries sharply at its Chinese factories. Despite a series of wage increases since last May, workers making iPhones and iPads are still said to be exploited and living dismal lives.

In fact, the Fair Labor Association, a watchdog that monitors working conditions at factories manufacturing Apple products, have found “tons of issues” that must be addressed at the Foxconn manufacturing facility in Schenzhen, with a full report to come out in a matter of weeks. Besides the suicides last year, four workers died and 20 were injured because of a dust explosion at a Chinese factory producing the Apple iPad.

Foxconn Technology is the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics products. Besides Apple, the company does contract work for Dell, Hewlett-Packard and others. The newly announced pay increase run from 16 to 25 percent as of February 1. The average junior worker’s monthly pay has gone up to 1,800 yuan (0) from 900 yuan three years ago. Workers that pass technical examinations will get monthly salaries of more than 2,200 yuan. Not exactly worth dying for.

Foxconn also promised to reduce overtime hours at its factories, but that remains to be seen since labor groups say Foxconn factories have gotten around Chinese labor laws for years.

This special edition of “Nightline” will air Tuesday, February 21st at 11:35pm ET on ABC.

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