Foxconn apologizes to rioters, Apple is on the scene
Following riots at its iPhone plant in Zhengzhou, Foxconn has apologized and said pay problems were a "technical error."
Hundreds of workers from the Zhengzhou rioted on Wednesday, protesting about food and conditions in the COVID lockdown measures, and also pay. Despite Foxconn having previously promised bonuses, rioters claimed that the company had revised contracts to prevent workers being eligible.
According to BBC News, the company has now issued a statement saying that a "technical error occurred during the onboarding process." Foxconn said that the pay its new recruits would get is now "the same as agreed [in the] official recruitment posters."
Foxconn also said that it was in communication with the affected employees, and was doing what it could "to actively solve the concerns and reasonable demands of employees."
Separately, one worker told BBC News that since the company's apology statement, he had received $1,120, and was to get a further $280. The worker also said that the protests had now ended.
However, at the same time, Chinese authorities again ordered the city of Zhengzhou to go into lockdown. People will require a negative COVID test before they can leave the area.
And, Apple has a response team on site. It's not clear exactly when they arrived, but Apple confirmed that they were there to help deal with the problem.
"We are reviewing the situation and working closely with Foxconn to ensure their employees' concerns are addressed," Apple reportedly has said.
It was following a previous lockdown that Foxconn issued a warning about its revenue growth, and Apple made a rare statement about delays in iPhone 14 Pro production.
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Hundreds of workers from the Zhengzhou rioted on Wednesday, protesting about food and conditions in the COVID lockdown measures, and also pay. Despite Foxconn having previously promised bonuses, rioters claimed that the company had revised contracts to prevent workers being eligible.
According to BBC News, the company has now issued a statement saying that a "technical error occurred during the onboarding process." Foxconn said that the pay its new recruits would get is now "the same as agreed [in the] official recruitment posters."
Foxconn also said that it was in communication with the affected employees, and was doing what it could "to actively solve the concerns and reasonable demands of employees."
Separately, one worker told BBC News that since the company's apology statement, he had received $1,120, and was to get a further $280. The worker also said that the protests had now ended.
However, at the same time, Chinese authorities again ordered the city of Zhengzhou to go into lockdown. People will require a negative COVID test before they can leave the area.
And, Apple has a response team on site. It's not clear exactly when they arrived, but Apple confirmed that they were there to help deal with the problem.
"We are reviewing the situation and working closely with Foxconn to ensure their employees' concerns are addressed," Apple reportedly has said.
It was following a previous lockdown that Foxconn issued a warning about its revenue growth, and Apple made a rare statement about delays in iPhone 14 Pro production.
Read on AppleInsider
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Problem is Apple is stuck there along with dozens of other manufacturers who followed the availability of large numbers of low wage laborers. And at the core of all of it are the consumers of the developed world who demand low prices while also demanding high wages for their domestic workforce. So now Apple is moving to India, Vietnam, possibly Brazil and some day they will run out of those low wage workers. Then what?
Foxconn is owned by Democratic country Taiwan that a China wants forever to attack
CCP is using its famed “Weibo” army to do its dirty work . Weibo is the Chinese super app literally every person in China use 24/7
CCP is doing this because it doesn’t want to directly be seen as going after Foxconn and Apple because they are “partners”
lastly, why with strict “lockdowns”, nobody is wondering why these protestors are able to roam free, cameras everywhere?
this is CCP coordinated
I'm not arguing that Apple isn't seeking out the lowest possible price for workers, just that the company seems more willing than most to prioritise quality of output over the cost of production - best value, rather than lowest cost.
Shameful no matter the reasons.
look at time line
Not a conspiracy, it’s fact. A week ago, Local Chinese government offered 20k retired communist party members and soldiers to work for Foxconn. These 20k were the same people protesting yesterday clock work like military. And today 20k these same people says they are leaving…After extorting the 6 month bonus from Foxconn by being there a few days.. Gee whiz?
also watch the video, the protestors were the ones beating the police in while hazmat suits , when have you even seen that in China?
remember all the fake “Tesla cars brakes failing” videos? Same Weibo social media “army” , this time with help from CCP
lastly, Chinese media is highly censored, nothing gets through unless government is ok with it. Why would they allow these protest videos to appear freely?
This is confirmed by free Democratic media of a Taiwan https://youtu.be/rI3uAh0m-Qc
Taiwanese media are liars. How can a mattress sell for 10,000,000? They think this is true? LOL
i laid out facts and time line and the people sent in by the CCP
Do you really think the CCP police will stand there and basically get beaten by protestors if this was Xi Jing Ping they were protesting? Do you think any of those videos would be out? They wanted this scene to smear Foxconn and Apple and still have plausible deniability because they were just good partners trying to help.
another fact, CCP plan is to force Foxconn out and have their own company take over manufacturing for Apple, that company is call Li Shin so Apple will be fine here, real victim is Taiwan and Foxconn. Taiwan is also a true democracy, much more than corrupt Ukraine by the way
how do I know this? This is the tactic they have been using for many Taiwanese companies in China over last few years
lastly, the CCP factory that made the shoe you are wearing is likely much worse than Foxconn
also the mattress story is a parody stemming from big fight high profile divorce case between Taiwanese actress and Chinese businessman
Oh, and those other slave wage countries to the south won’t have any water due to China having built 13 dams with 7 more coming at the headwaters of several rivers draining from the Himalaya’s (Mekong being the most important) the slave wage countries to the south are not a long term fix).
In the end the USA and Europe will need to tapped for labor there won’t be any short cuts anymore.