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.
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
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ah fuck
why the fuck have i been using a vpn to access it all these years
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I thought Sixth Tone was run by the CPC Shanghai?
yeah, it is, my big brain take was that the cpc groups funding it are american entryists
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Oooh, that is a big brain take.