{"id":1192,"date":"2010-06-02T16:03:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T14:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2010-06-02T17:10:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T15:10:58","slug":"apples-steve-jobs-responds-to-labourstarts-foxconn-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/?p=1192","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s Steve Jobs responds to LabourStart&#8217;s Foxconn campaign [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1193\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/foxconn\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1193\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1193\" title=\"stevejobs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/stevejobs.jpg\" alt=\"Apple's Steve Jobs.\" width=\"100\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Jobs of Apple<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is starting to appear all over the net.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.fortune.cnn.com\/2010\/06\/01\/steve-jobs-on-foxconns-suicides\/\">Fortune<\/a> is now running with this story.\u00a0 There&#8217;s also a version on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcpro.co.uk\/news\/358357\/jobs-troubled-by-foxconn-suicides\">PCPro<\/a>, the website of a very important print magazine in the UK.\u00a0 Versions are appearing in different languages including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macnews.de\/news\/23919\/jobs-ausert-sich-zu-foxconn-selbstmorden\/\">German<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macgeneration.com\/news\/voir\/156751\/mails-de-steve-jobs-foxconn-et-app-store\">French<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theapplelounge.com\/news\/steve-jobs-email-riguardo-suicidi-foxconn\/\">Italian<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donews.com\/people\/201006\/103265.shtm\">Chinese<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I first read about it on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/appadvice.com\/appnn\/2010\/06\/steves-email-foxconn-suicides\/\">App Advice<\/a>&#8221; which wrote that &#8220;the conversation began with Jay\u2019s forwarding of a LabourStart campaign email, which included the message&#8221; &#8212; and then goes on to quote our campaign.<\/p>\n<p>They apparently picked up the story from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.macstories.net\/stories\/steve-jobs-email-conversation-about-foxconn-suicides\/\">MacStories<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; which actually includes a link to LabourStart in its article, as well a screen shot of our email message about the Foxconn campaign.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote to Jobs myself yesterday, as did Derek Blackadder, and we&#8217;ll let you know here if he responds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is starting to appear all over the net. UPDATE: Fortune is now running with this story.\u00a0 There&#8217;s also a version on PCPro, the website of a very important print magazine in the UK.\u00a0 Versions are appearing in different languages including German, French, Italian and Chinese. I first read about it on &#8220;App Advice&#8221; which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1196,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions\/1196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.labourstart.org\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}