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Over 1,000 workers went on strike last week in China protesting over long working hours at a plant where they make components for IBM and Apple. Workers blocked a local highway to demonstrate the unfair labour practices being conducted at the plant according to a report by China Labour Watch.

The Herald Sun Newspaper reports that China Labour Watch found workers at the plant were worked 100 to 120 hours of overtime per month which lead to workplace injuries, mass layoffs of older workers and frequent verbal abuse by managers. The plant, which employs 3,000 people in the Pearl River Delta - home to millions of Chinese migrant workers - is owned by Taiwan's Jingyuan Computer Group, which supplies components to Apple and IBM. The strike ended after the company promised to reduce the amount of overtime, the rights organization said in a statement. No one at the factory could immediately be reached for comment.

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