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Worker protests, mass illness lead Apple to put iPhone plant on probation

Enlarge (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images ) Apple company has put a Foxconn manufacturing plant that makes iPhone 12s and is running trial production of the iPhone 13 on probation, Reuters reported today. The move comes after both Apple plus Foxconn determined that some worker dorms and dining rooms failed to meet requirements. Production at the […]

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In new deal, Wisconsin slashes controversial Foxconn subsidies 30-fold

Enlarge / Foxconn chairman Young Liu speaks in Taipei on March 16, 2021. (credit: -Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The state of Wisconsin has negotiated a dramatically scaled-back deal with Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn. The move, announced Tuesday by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, is a repudiation of a deal negotiated four years earlier by Evers’ […]

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Ex-Apple Workers say Business Disregarded China labor-law Offenses

Expand / / An iPhone assembly employee works with Apple provider Pegatron within a picture spread by Apple. (charge: Apple) A fresh report from the info cites both former Apple personnel and inner demonstrations and information to make the case that Apple has failed to maintain its production partners in China liable following the Chinese […]

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Wisconsin blames Foxconn, States $3 billion Mill Bargain is Away

Foxconn has hired considerably fewer individuals than it promised it would do in the right time of their business’s 2017 development handle the state. (charge: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP through Getty Images) The state of Wisconsin was designed to supply Foxconn with $3 billion in subsidies during the upcoming few decades to encourage the building of a […]