Foxconn's woes to take bigger toll on giant China iPhone plant as more workers leave - source
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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

      I don’t know much about that time, but yes. From what I do know, the protests were largely a result of the critical transition period of Reform and Opening Up where several key pillars of Chinese Socialism to that point, particularly in the rural areas, were being dismantled. Of course there would be protests. Understandably so. To many, it was clear revisionism and betrayal of the revolution and of Mao.

      In addition, of course, was all the infiltration by capitalists amongst the protesters, many of whom wanted China to become a Western puppet under a neoliberal government.

      So the government cracked down. Hard. On both, the people who were genuinely suffering and the opportunists who wanted to tear China down and break it apart. The government was in no condition to be able to distinguish between the two groups.

      Anyways, those are the kind of conditions that would be required for a nationwide protest movement. And I imagine the government today would respond similarly.

    • Commander_Data [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      This is correct. The western line that the Tianenmen protests were about "greater democracy" is mostly bullshit. Yes, there were some western educated academics and PMC types who were trying to convert their newfound economic power into political power, but the vast majority of the protesters were working class people upset with their material conditions.

      Matt Christman talks a little bit about it as a tangent to the book on China he's currently reading on his grill stream.

      Listen to 231 - The China Bust 11.11.22 by Grill Stream on #SoundCloud https://on.soundcloud.com/ZaKPZ