My votes goes to Foxconn.
It was reporterd last Sunday in the Cleveland Plain Dealer in a syndicated story that Chinese workers would get some better raises or money.
Now that doesn’t look to be the case: see: http://9to5mac.com/foxconn_denies
(Apple is not paying Foxconn an additional subsidy toward improved wages for workers on the iPhone, iPad and Mac production lines, an executive has said. There have been claims that Apple has been paying a 2 per cent subsidy on Foxconn’s labour costs as a compensation for the manufacturers move to raise minimum wages on the Apple production lines. This isn’t true, a Foxconn executive told the National Business Daily this morning. The executive said the rumor is purely speculation and Foxconn has never received any subsidies from Apple… The intention of these payments was to end a wave of suicides among Foxconn workers, reportedly unhappy at long hours, long wages, anti-social working conditions and authoritarian management practises. Foxconn has moved to offer workers large pay hikes, while breaking some of its production units into plants it owns elsewhere in China.).
Of course, Apple could be of some help, because, say, a 64 GB iPad with 3G reportedly costs only $346.00 in materials and manufacturing costs, and those babies were priced by iSupply @ $829.00. (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10451132-1.html)
I’m sure a 2 percent subsidy on a single Foxconn worker’s $200 monthly pay – $4 – is not going to cause Steve Jobs to lose any sleep.