In an interview, FLA President and Chief Executive Auret van Heerden said Foxconn's commitment to reduce overtime hours was a model for the industry and would prove to others it can be done.

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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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