Apple also said it is joining the Fair Labor Association, agreeing to outside monitoring of its suppliers.

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Stinebrickner-Kauffman is critical of the non-profit group, the Fair Labor Association, which Apple has invited to audit most of its manufacturing facilities in China.

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To prove just how serious the tech giant was about their concerns, Apple partnered with the Fair Labor Association, launching an audit of their supply chain.

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The Fair Labor Association was established in 1998, after the Western world discovered that much of our apparel and footwear was being manufactured in appalling working conditions in Asian factories.

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In addition to the raise, Apple has previously agreed to an independent investigation of their manufacturing facilities by their Fair Labor Association, seemingly in response to a New York Times investigation into unsafe working conditions.

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"The manufacturing industry is running out of low-cost sourcing destinations, and it's time to invest in making factories safer and better, rather than searching for cheaper labor, " says Auret van Heerden, chief executive of the Fair Labor Association, a monitoring group funded partly by Western companies.

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