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| Foxconn asks employees to sign ?anti-suicide pledge? We’ve reported on the harsh working conditions at Foxconn ? which have allegedly driven some workers to commit suicide ? and now the firm is asking its workers to sign pledges stating that they will not hold Foxconn responsible if they commit suicide, Daily Mail says. While translations may vary, the letter to employees reportedly says: In the event of non-accidental injuries (including suic [..] |
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Poisoned iPhone factory workers beg for reform in open letter A pair of workers who claim to have been poisoned by toxins in a Suzhou, China factory while assembling touchscreens for Apple’s iPhone have written an open letter begging consumers to demand reform. SumOfUs, the organization behind the Ethical iPhone Campaign, released the letter in an email to the media on Wednesday afternoon. The letter was written by Guo Rui-qiang and Jia Jing-chuan, two [..] |
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| Protestors to deliver poisoned iPhone factory workers? letter to Apple shareholder meeting SumOfUs, the organization behind the Ethical iPhone campaign, plans to deliver new petitions to Apple during its annual shareholder meeting on Thursday. Along with the petitions, the group plans to hand over a copy of a letter it distributed on Wednesday written by two factory workers who were allegedly poisoned while assembling iPhone displays. “Apple has a moral obligation to fully compens [..] |
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Foxconn Is Pushing Into Retail Chinese electronics manufacturer Foxconn, which builds products for Apple and many other electronics companies, came under some criticism last year after a spate of worker suicides. But according to a new article in Wired [..] |
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| iPad 2 to ship from Foxconn in February A new report Tuesday morning suggests Apple has notified Foxconn, its next-generation iPad manufacturer, that initial shipments will commence in the next 100 days. The unconfirmed report originates from China’s industry watchdog, DigiTimes, and suggests that initial shipments will be in the 400,000 to 600,000 range. Those numbers seem quite low for the sequel to a device that is selling as w [..] |
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| FLA finds serious labor law violations at Foxconn The Fair Labor Association on Thursday reported that it found serious violations of Chinese labor laws during its inspections of Foxconn’s electronics manufacturing plants in various cities across China. The inspections, which were prompted by Apple after the company became the focus of renewed public outcry over the poor working conditions in plants that manufacture its iPad, iPhone and oth [..] |
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A Night Inside The Foxconn Factory SHENZHEN, China — Inside one of the world’s largest electronics factories, Yuan Yandong, 24, sits on a stool six nights a week, 12 hours a night barring meal and bathroom breaks, and assembles computer hard drives for an [..] |
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| Foxconn to build all iPad units this year Foxconn will be the only manufacturer to build the iPad this year, DigiTimes reported on Wednesday. There were reports earlier this week that suggested Apple had been in talks with either Pegatron or Quanta Computer as a second manufacturer in order to create enough units for the launch of a new model in September. However, Foxconn reportedly caught word of Apple’s discussions with other man [..] |
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| New iPad 3 contract goes to Pegatron, not Foxconn [updated] Pegatron has been awarded a new contract to build Apple’s next-generation iPad tablets, Taiwan Economic News reports. According to the report, Pegatron underbid Hon Hai for a new contract to manufacture the iPad 3, which will become available some time near the Thanksgiving holiday according to an earlier report. Hon Hai, owner of infamous Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn, manufactures Ap [..] |
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