I’m sure I don’t have to remind any of you about the controversy surrounding the conditions at Foxconn’s facilities. Apple and Foxconn have publicly acknowledged the issues and have been working towards resolving them for a while now, and according to the New York Times’ latest installment of iEconomy, the companies are definitely taking steps in the…
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Yesterday, there were reports all over the webspace claiming that Foxconn’s workers were threatening to strike over Apple’s quality standards in iPhone 5 production. It was claimed that it was just too difficult to get all the handsets up to scratch (no pun intended). Turns out, however, that all that was false. A quick response by Foxconn’s senior…
Since the release of the iPhone 5, the brunt of the Apple rumor mill has fallen on the iPad mini. The latest bit of speculation regarding the iPad’s smaller cousin comes from Japanese blog Macotakara, which published a story claiming that production for the device has already started in a Brazilian factory. Unfortunately there wasn’t much…
Yesterday, the glamor of the iPhone 5 was briefly overshadowed by the harrowing reports of a mass riot at a Foxconn factory in Taiyuan, northern China. On Sunday night, what was reported to have been a dormitory dispute quickly escalated into a full scale brawl, involving some 2000 of the plants 79,000 employees. Despite the official report, messages…
This is an interesting report coming out of China. According to Shanghai Daily, students in China from Huai’an in Jiangsu Province are being “forced” to work in the Foxconn factories. The report is based on an anonymous post found online stating that the poster and “several other students from at least five colleges” are being made to work 12 hour…
This is some good news to hear. The Fair Labor Association has reevaluated Foxconn’s Apple factories and noted some positive progress in the conditions. A number of changes have been made in accordance with what the FLA recommended. Here is part of the report: Our verification shows that the necessary changes, including immediate health and safety…
A New York-based labor rights group, China Labor Watch, have released a report damning the practices of Apple’s suppliers in China. However this time, Foxconn seem to be off the hook, as the report focuses mainly on the conduct of Taiwanese company Pegatron. The report was released on Tuesday, and it documents the findings of a four month investigation…
Just a few months after Apple’s promise to help improve conditions for its many factory workers, there has been another suicide reported at Chinese manufacturing giant Foxconn. According to a statement from Foxconn, a 23 year old worker jumped from the roof of his apartment building in the city of Chengdu yesterday, having only been in employment at…
Apple has once again opened up Foxconn’s doors to a reporter. This time the lucky is Rob Schmitz, Marketplace reporter. Schmitz has just posted a video that provides an inside look at the creation of Apple’s incredibly popular iPad and the workers that make it happen. The factory, located in Longhua, is certainly no easy place to work – workers…
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