In reaction to a spate of negative press, particularly that involving worker suicides in which 14 people died[118] from January to May 2010, Steve Jobs defended Apple's relationship with the company in June 2010, citing that its Chinese partner is "pretty nice" and is "not a sweatshop".[119] Meanwhile, however, a report jointly produced by 20 universities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China described Foxconn factories as labour camps[120] with widespread worker abuse and illegal overtime.