Apple temporarily halts iPhone production at Wistron after workers riot, pending probe
Apple is investigating whether the riot was caused by its Taiwanese iPhone assembler Wistron breaking guidelines over staff pay and working conditions.

Following the riot at Wistron's plant near Narasapura, India, Apple has announced that it is probing whether the supplier broke its guidelines for the iPhone assembler. According to Reuters, Apple has said that it is cooperating with local police.
"We have teams on the ground," said Apple in an email to Reuters. "[We] have immediately launched a detailed investigation at Wistron's Narasapura facility."
Apple reportedly also said that its teams included auditors, and that it is dedicated to ensuring all workers are treated with dignity and respect.
The protest by some thousands of contract workers concerned both unpaid wages and better working conditions. The rioting caused an estimated $60 million in damages to equipment.
Wistron, has filed a police report accusing more than 5,000 workers and 2,000 further unknown people, of the damage. The company has not commented on Apple's investigation, but said in the filing that it is "deeply shocked" by the violence.
The Narasapura plant is where Wistron has reportedly been recruiting heavily for staff in recent months. The plans were to generate a total of 10,000 jobs at the facility.

Following the riot at Wistron's plant near Narasapura, India, Apple has announced that it is probing whether the supplier broke its guidelines for the iPhone assembler. According to Reuters, Apple has said that it is cooperating with local police.
"We have teams on the ground," said Apple in an email to Reuters. "[We] have immediately launched a detailed investigation at Wistron's Narasapura facility."
Apple reportedly also said that its teams included auditors, and that it is dedicated to ensuring all workers are treated with dignity and respect.
The protest by some thousands of contract workers concerned both unpaid wages and better working conditions. The rioting caused an estimated $60 million in damages to equipment.
Wistron, has filed a police report accusing more than 5,000 workers and 2,000 further unknown people, of the damage. The company has not commented on Apple's investigation, but said in the filing that it is "deeply shocked" by the violence.
The Narasapura plant is where Wistron has reportedly been recruiting heavily for staff in recent months. The plans were to generate a total of 10,000 jobs at the facility.
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You might want to read up on the nationwide strike in India on November 26, 2020 that involved over 250 million people. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Indian_general_strike). Doesn't seem to me that Indians don't know how to express their unhappiness by withholding labor.
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THIS. This is all that matters. These are not Apple employees. Wistron has a contract to fill and if they can't do it because they treat their employees like sh** Apple should sue the company for loss of production which in turn hurt Apple's sales and marketshare.
Of course the media will find a way to blame Apple for this and twist headlines into something like "Employees contracted by Apple are not being paid".
But, there is a fine line between sweatshop and a high performance shop for the "A" players. As Steve Jobs said: "A" players don't like to play with "B" players. And he tended to demand the "A" players. Bill Gates was known for checking the parking lot to see who was there. Or, although fictional, this kind of illustrates what Jobs sought:
For myself, I know the difference between when I see it. But still, it is a fine line.
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The U.S. has laws limiting it and so does China.
The process is straight forward: A company pays a contactor mill to supply workers. That company then works them as hard as possible while the contractor mill pays them as little as possible. The contract worker gets squeezed from both ends -- and nobody is responsible as each points to the other.
Today Pittsburgh recovered, it actually recovered over a period of about 20+ years from the 1970 to through the 1990's, grant it most of the mills were dead or dying during this time, prior to this mills cleaned up their operations through the 1950's and 1960's, but eventual everything started to clean up on its own, nature has a way to taking care of itself. Today the Monongahela River is considered some of the best Bass fishing in the state. All the environmentalist said the river would be dead for 100 yrs after the last mill closed, as usual they were wrong. One of the mills next to our home is now the home of the CMU Robotic center. As side affect of living next to steel mills as child I learned to can sleep through anything, do not need to be in dark room to fall asleep and can fall asleep at a rock concert. In spite of living next to dirty mills most of my dad's life he lived to 89 and my mom is still alive at 85. My grandfather worked in one of those mills shoving coal into a coke oven, did that and other jobs in the mill for 30 yrs. One of the things that help clean up the city was the fact Pittsburgh was the site of one of very first Nuclear power plants which allowed the mills to use Nuclear Electricity to melt steel verse burning more coal to generate power.
People forget Pittsburgh helped build the US, and most people live very comfortably today because of all the people who worked very hard in those mills and lived in Pittsburgh. There were always labor disputes even though the 1970's and I do not remember any one in the US coming to the defense of the workers in Pittsburgh. I find it very hypocritical of people who to come to the defense of workers in other countries when they were not willing to stand up for their own neighbors. You only have time to worry about what is happening in another country because your life is easy today due to all the people who came before you to build what you are currently benefitting from. Just look what happened in Calif and the Independent Contractor law, they voted to allow Uber and similar companies continue hiring independent contractors. Why did Californians vote down the law, otherwise it meant they would have to pay more for their Uber ride and Door Dash delivery, or those services would go away. These are the same people who claim to be worry about these worker in Asian and India in reality they do not care about how other people are treated especial when it will cost them more to really care.
BTW, all the money Carnegie made still operates the free libraries in Pittsburgh (which I use to love going to), provide Scholarships to CMU for students who can not afford it (which I attempted to attend and get), pays for the performing arts in NYC (and I seen a fair share of) and the list goes on. Do not forget if it was not for the steel, oil and gas industries in the US the US would be a completely different place it may look like India today. Be thank for the people that came before you that lead to the life you have.
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