Foxconn Treats Chinese Workers to Taiwan Trip with Cash Award and Free iPhone (Video)

Star Chang, Apr 23, 2012 5:31 AM, 824 views, Got something to say ?,

A group of Chinese workers from Foxconn were invited to travel to Taiwan for a seven-day free tour, courtesy of their employer. The 217 Foxconn employees from 17 provinces and 21 factories in China are scheduled to visit many popular tourist sites in Taiwan. Foxconn will be footing the bill for all costs involved, because the tour is part of a plan by chairman Terry Gou to help reduce worker stress and encourage high-performing workers. These excellent workers had be chosen and they will get rewarded for their hard work and contribution to Foxconn, they will each received an Apple iPhone and 5,000 yuan (US$792) cash award …

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Unwilling to Relocate, Foxconn Workers Protest at the Rooftop

Star Chang, Apr 17, 2012 11:42 PM, 522 views, 1 Comment »,

Last week, around 20 Foxconn workers climbed to the rooftop of a building located inside Shenzhen plant for 26 hours to protest a planned move. The employees were protesting the company’s decision to relocate factories from Shenzhen to Huizhou, a city further north in Guangdong province, and urged the company to arrange employment for them in Shenzhen or to lay them off. Foxconn has refused to terminate the workers and said it will arrange jobs for them at other factories in the area or will hold further talks with those who insist on seeing their contracts terminated …

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Taiyuan Foxconn Workers Go on Strike Again ! (Video)

Star Chang, Apr 13, 2012 12:56 PM, 669 views, 1 Comment »,

This morning, Foxconn workers from Taiyuan factory, which is located at Shanxi Province in northern China, went on strike again. Last month, hundreds of Foxconn workers have already gone on strike in a pay dispute. The protesters said that Foxconn had promised to raise the pay for all employees, but not for entry-level workers, prompting a number to go on strike. Recently, serveral rumors hint that the Taiyuan’s Foxconn plant is preparing to produce the upcoming new iPhones. The news of the workers strike was first posted at SINA weibo, the nation largest social networking platform (aka China’s twitter). In the meantime, there is no official words from Foxconn. We will keep everyone update on this, stay tune.

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Foxconn Worker Needs to be Immortal to Achieve Tim Cook One Year Salary

Star Chang, Apr 10, 2012 12:34 AM, 1,094 views, 4 Comments »,

Apple CEO Tim Cook was awarded US$378 million in compensation last year, making him by far the top-paid CEO among big public companies in a study published by New York Times last week. The most interesting part of the story is, a Foxcoon worker needs to work 60,919 years to earn such an astronomical amount of money …

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More Holidays For Foxconn Workers Due to Weak Sales of New iPad

Chris Chang, Mar 28, 2012 5:25 AM, 1,710 views, 1 Comment »,

With all the controversy about working conditions in Foxconn, we thought it might be a good time to relate some of the workers’ experiences inside the manufacturing plants. China Business News reports on an interview that it did with a Foxconn worker called Wang Xiaoqiao (not his real name), and Wang reveals that employees who are involved in the production of the new iPad are now working fewer hours and they have been given more days off.

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Refuse to Build the New iPhone ? Foxconn Workers Went on Strike (Video)

Star Chang, Mar 24, 2012 4:43 AM, 4,111 views, Got something to say ?,

Hundreds of Foxconn workers from a factory in Shanxi Province in northern China have gone on strike in a pay dispute which is still under negotiation. The strike is taking place at a plant in the Xiaodian district of the provincial capital Taiyuan. A manager from Foxconn confirmed that some workers had downed tools. He declined to specify how many workers are involved but stressed that the factory was talking with the protesters …

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Foxconn Workers See A Quarter Wiped Off Their Salary As Dormitory Rents Increase

Chris Chang, Mar 20, 2012 8:08 AM, 1,743 views, 3 Comments »,

According to a report from Guangzhou Daily, landlords in the area around the Foxconn factory has raised their rents, forcing Foxconn workers to pay at least 400 yuan ($63) a month in rent for a 10 square meter room.

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Foxconn is Employing Entertainer to Make Workers Feel Happy

Star Chang, Mar 17, 2012 5:35 PM, 541 views, 1 Comment »,

Apple main contractor Foxconn is employing a two-pronged strategy to worker safety and satisfaction, by hiring new manpower in both its security and entertainment department. A Chinese recruiting website shows that Foxconn is hiring a host of fire-control specialists, as well as singers, actors, dancers and art directors. The hiring strategy appears to be a response to criticism over working conditions at Foxconn factories. The company is planning to increase the entertainment offered at its facilities in the hope of creating a more satisfactory environment for workers. Foxconn was investigated last month by the Fair Labor Association, at the request of Apple. It looks like someone has found out that safety and satisfaction are important elements for the young age workers. In fact, Foxconn CEO Terry Gou doesn’t feel shy to entertain his workers too.

Foxconn Worker Prefers to Make The New iPad Rather Than iPhone 4S

Chris Chang, Mar 10, 2012 1:12 PM, 7,478 views, 7 Comments »,

The new iPad is here, and everyone is excited about it. The new Retina display, the A5X processor with quad-core graphics, the iSight camera, and the LTE chip are all assembled together to form the most advanced tablet today. Here’s the question, will the launch of the new iPad puts a new pressure to Foxconn workers? Well, a Foxconn worker who is working on the new iPad assembly line thinks it’s much easier to work on the new iPad than working on the iPhone 4S.

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Apple And Foxconn Will Not Feel Happy For These ‘iKill’ Infographic Charts

Star Chang, Mar 3, 2012 1:49 AM, 2,879 views, 21 Comments »,

Recently, Apple has encountered growing criticism of its partners’ labor practices, therefore they invited press media to visit their supplier Foxconn factories, a PR move to assert they were “sweatshop free”. If you want to evaluate the human cost of an Apple’s iPhone, the “iKill” infographic charts are some realistic and simplify info you can look into it. This kind of infographic charts will certainly make Apple and Foxconn look even more ugly …

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