A Chinese supplier of Apple Computer's iPod embroiled in a dispute over its labor policies has been told to let its more than 200,000 workers set up a trade union, reports said Friday. Hongfujin Precision Industry Co. is on a list of companies in the southern city of Shenzhen that have been ordered to set up such a union, which would be affiliated to the government's All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
See "iPod Maker Ordered to Allow Union", Associated Press, The New York Times, August 31, 2006