Foxconn's woes to take bigger toll on giant China iPhone plant as more workers leave - source
www.reuters.com
Foxconn's flagship iPhone plant in China is set to see its November shipments further reduced by the latest bout of worker unrest this week, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday, as thousands of employees left the site.

employees have complained about sharing dormitories with colleagues who tested positive for COVID. They claim they were misled over compensation benefits at the factory that accounts for 70% of global iPhone shipments.

Foxconn on Thursday offered 10,000 yuan ($1,400) to protesting recruits who agreed to resign and leave the plant.

The company apologised for a pay-related "technical error" when hiring, which workers say was a factor that led to protests involving clashes with security personnel.

Edit: Read this article from Sixth Tone instead. It’s much better.

    • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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      2 years ago

      This is an amazing article. It’s so much more detailed and without any propagandistic flourishes. Love it. Love Sixth Tone. It’s the best Chinese news source.

        • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Goddamn, that’s a conundrum, isn’t it?

          I want Sixth Tone to get bigger so they can become the only news source I need, at least for Chinese stuff.

          But you raise an awesome point. What if that changes what Sixth Tone is.

          I don’t know. I think I’d rather it remain small, and continue providing insightful, high-quality articles on topics and issues none of the other major Chinese news sources cover.

      • meth_dragon [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        my omega brain take is that sixth tone is the (less) controlled opposition as it's blocked in the mainland and the CEO's other media outlet is not, sixth tone's economist contributors also tend to lean lib

        probably some quid pro quo fuckery going on between its financiers and some NGO that nets it a pass because it isn't chuang lol

        • LiberalSocialist [any,they/them]
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          2 years ago

          I thought Sixth Tone was run by the CPC Shanghai?

          Sixth Tone is a state-owned English-language online magazine published by Shanghai United Media Group.

          Shanghai United Media Group (Chinese: 上海报业集团) is a state media company of the People's Republic of China, established on October 28, 2013, through the merger of the city's two largest newspaper groups, Jiefang Daily Press Group and Wenhui–Xinmin United Press Group, to accelerate media reform and capitalize on the fast growth of Internet media. The media group is overseen by the Shanghai committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

    • space_comrade [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Just found this in the related articles: https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1011669/henan-asks-cadres-to-assemble-iphones-amid-foxconn-labor-shortage

      That's kinda cringe tbh.