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

By Chris Chang, posted January 30, 2012 at 9:03 PM, 8,593 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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Hundreds of Foxconn Workers Stand On Factory’s Rooftop Threatening to Jump

By Chris Chang, posted January 9, 2012 at 6:15 PM, 1,278 views

On January 3, 2012, more than a hundred Foxconn employees stood on the factory building’s rooftop, threatening to commit suicide if their unemployment compensation are not paid. They were very frustrated.

UPDATE: Workers from this Foxconn plant manufacture Microsoft Xbox 360s. A Microsoft spokeperson made a statement on the situation at the plant:

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Chinese Factory Workers of Apple, HP and Motorola Go Protest in Shanghai

By Herman Lai, posted December 7, 2011 at 12:06 PM, 499 views

There are growing series of labor disputes in China. Following from last week labor strike at an electronic supplier plant in Shenzhen, here is another one. The strike involved around 400 hundreds of workers, they went on a seven-day strike strike outside of Hi-P International electronics plant to protest for compensation and layoff.

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Foxconn’s Plan for 2012: More Robots, No Layoffs, No Suicides, New Factories

By Chris Chang, posted November 22, 2011 at 6:55 AM, 2,046 views

As 2011 grows closer to conclusion, Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer which assembles products for Apple, Sony and Nokia, has big plans for 2012. The company aims to build more plants in inland regions to reduce labor costs, and most interestingly, 300,000 robots will be added to the assembly line but will not lay-off any workers according to comments made by founder and chairman Terry Gou.

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Workers in Nokia China Factory Look Happy

By Chris Chang, posted November 14, 2011 at 3:00 PM, 702 views

Nokia has begun shipping its N9 smartphone model to Chinese users, which is based on the MeeGo open platform. The company has posted a few photos on their China blog, showing their Chinese workers examining the N9 and shipping out the phones. We can see people in the factories look both real and happy.

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Nikon Mirrorless Cameras Are Made in China

By Chris Chang, posted October 27, 2011 at 5:09 PM, 7,945 views

Two things. One, we love micro four thirds but we aren’t impressed by the new Nikon mirrorless cameras — the V1 and J1 . Two, here’s an in-depth look at the Chinese factory that makes Nikon’s mirrorless cameras.

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Foxconn Worker: I hope to become a boss

By Chris Chang, posted October 7, 2011 at 5:53 PM, 4,620 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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Foxconn Workers Fight Over Company Newspaper, One Got Killed

By Chris Chang, posted September 1, 2011 at 1:00 PM, 1,329 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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Is Wintek Producing the iPhone 5 Screen Right Now?

By Chris Chang, posted August 16, 2011 at 4:23 PM, 24,665 views

We already know that Apple’s iPhone 5 is coming soon, and the whole world of Apple fanboys is waiting leaks and updates regarding the next iPhone. Today, we came across a picture that’s probably showing workers of Wintek checking the touchscreens of the next iPhone. See bigger pic after the jump.

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Foxconn Wants To Replace Workers With 1 Million Robots

By Chris Chang, posted August 1, 2011 at 5:30 AM, 1,079 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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