CNN Investigates Foxconn factory and Talks with iPad Worker (Video)

By Star Chang, posted February 7, 2012 at 1:44 AM, 381 views

CNN crew has flew all the way to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province in Southwest China, to further investigates the Foxconn factory, after The New York Times published a pair of stories profiling Apple’s overseas manufacturing operations two weeks ago. CNN has managed to interview a part-time iPad worker which has only temporary worked inside the factory for several weeks. The young lady said she does not feel Foxconn cares about her …

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Thousands Line Up For Foxconn’s Jobs in Zhengzhou (video)

By Chris Chang, posted January 30, 2012 at 9:03 PM, 9,268 views

On the 30th of January, thousands of hopefuls stood for hours outside a labor agency located in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, the largest city of Henan province in north-central China. The lines stretched more than 200 meters along the road, and the people who were waiting in line with their applications just hope to get a job at Foxconn, as the electronics contracting giant ramps up its iPhone production at Zhengzhou plant …

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Foxconn CEO: Manage One Million Workers Gives Me A Headache That Kills

By Chris Chang, posted January 19, 2012 at 4:34 PM, 710 views

Ever since Foxconn CEO Terry Gou told people that the robots are coming, we think the Foxconn workers will go jobless someday. As Foxconn is going to boost the number of robots doing those repetitive tasks on its assembly line in 3 years time, the Foxconn chairman recently talked about the workforce of the company, saying that the management of one million workers gives him headaches.

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Foxconn Prepares iPad 3 Production

By Star Chang, posted December 13, 2011 at 5:11 PM, 1,601 views

According to the latest info from Taiwan’s analyst, Foxconn has arranged its iPad department to have only five days off during the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year holiday, in order to meet the market demand of the iPad 3’s announcement in February. The Chinese new year will start on January 23, 2012, and Foxconn offers nine days off for the workers in other departments. The Taiwan-based company has also posted record revenues on strong sales of iPhones and iPads in November …

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Foxconn Worker Commits Suicide for Boyfriend’s Breakup

By Chris Chang, posted November 25, 2011 at 1:45 PM, 1,847 views

It’s normal to feel down after a relationship ends, but recently a 20-year old female worker at Foxconn’s Taiyuan (capital of Shanxi province) factory killed herself over disappointment in a relationship. Her suicide is not caused by stressful working conditions.

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Foxconn Worker: I hope to become a boss

By Chris Chang, posted October 7, 2011 at 5:53 PM, 4,638 views

Everyone has their own dream. A Foxconn worker’s dream is to become a boss someday. Here’s a must-watch documentary created by three Italian journalists — it’s really touching to watch the Foxconn employee interviews.

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Fire Has Broken Out At Foxconn Plant again (Video)

By Star Chang, posted September 27, 2011 at 5:30 AM, 2,938 views

Breaking news. Yes, yet again, fire has broken out at one of the Foxconn factories in China this morning! There are reports coming in of a substantial fire and possible explosion at a Foxconn plant in Yantai, a city in northeastern Shandong province of China. Smoke was seen billowing high into the sky from a building, and people were evacuating while there are reports of multiple fire engines responding to the emergency. According to the Chinese media report, the fire/explosion was caused by improper operation of workmanship on color spraying. We will update this post when we get more information. Video after the break.

Update: More info added, plus new video! So far there was no report on injuries.

Update 2: One more video added, watch how the fire engines put out the fire! According to the latest report, the aging equipment has caused the paint chemical to burn up, generated the huge smoke. In the mean time, the incident has remain at ‘low-profile’, Foxconn has not issued too much detail about it.

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Foxconn Workers Fight Over Company Newspaper, One Got Killed

By Chris Chang, posted September 1, 2011 at 1:00 PM, 1,336 views

This. Is. Pathetic. Two Foxconn workers had troubles coming to an agreement about sharing a copy of Foxconn People, the company’s internal newspaper. So, one of them was stabbed to death for not giving the paper to the other one. See the full story after the break.

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Foxconn’s Robot Army Gets Animated

By Chris Chang, posted August 3, 2011 at 6:10 PM, 1,573 views

Seriously, how hard can it be to make Apple products? Well, Foxconn, a manufacturer of Apple products, thinks robots are more suitable than humans for assembling Apple’s iPhones and iPads in China. Yeah, Foxconn announced earlier this week that it intends to replace many of its workers with robots, aiming to “employ” 1 million robots to handle tasks once carried out by humans — spraying, welding and assembling. Can you imagine what would happen if the Foxconn robot army is formed? Look at some of the scenes found in Taiwan’s latest animated report.

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Foxconn Wants To Replace Workers With 1 Million Robots

By Chris Chang, posted August 1, 2011 at 5:30 AM, 1,090 views

You don’t know when these things could happen, but you should be very excited to see most of the gadgets you love — your iPads, iPhones, Android tablets and so on — to be assembled by Foxconn robots. Yup, Foxconn is planning to replace their human workers with 1 million robots in 3 years to assemble Apple products. Yeah babe!

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