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iPhone City Maintains Plant Curbs as China Tweaks Covid Approach
1Dec By adminNo Comments
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iPhone City Maintains Plant Curbs as China Tweaks Covid Approach

[ad_1] iPhone assembly plant remains in a closed-loop operation that curtails workers’ movement on campus, potentially complicating the effort to resume full production. Apple Inc.'s most important iPhone assembly plant remains in a closed-loop operation that curtails workers' movement on campus, potentially complicating the effort to resume full production. Foxconn Technology Group is sticking with measures adopted weeks ago limiting staff movements in order to handle a Covid outbreak, according to a person familiar with operations, who asked not to be named as the information is not public. The closed-loop approach restricts workers to their dorms or the factory floor, minimizing the number of other people they come into contact with in hopes of containing the spread of the virus...
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Apple supply chain data shows receding exposure to China
30Nov By adminNo Comments
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Apple supply chain data shows receding exposure to China

[ad_1] Apple Inc's wide exposure to Chinese manufacturing, notable both for its low costs and rising risks, has receded. Apple Inc's wide exposure to Chinese manufacturing, notable both for its low costs and rising risks, has receded since the COVID-19 pandemic began, company supply chain data shows. With the world's biggest iPhone factory, operated in central China by Foxconn, battling production shortfalls and labour unrest spurred largely by Beijing's harsh virus containment policies, analysts expect the risks - and Apple's retreat - to accelerate. A Reuters analysis of Apple's supply chain data shows China's prominence in the company's global manufacturing is declining: In the five years to 2019, China was the primary location of 44% to 47% of its suppliers' production sites,...
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China’s ‘iPhone city’ tightens Covid rules after violent protests
24Nov By adminNo Comments
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China’s ‘iPhone city’ tightens Covid rules after violent protests

[ad_1] City centre residents cannot leave the area unless they have a negative Covid test and permission from local authorities, and are advised not to leave their homes "unless necessary". China has ordered six million people into lockdown in a city where violent protests broke out at an iPhone factory over Covid isolation policies and working conditions.Hundreds of workers took to the streets around the vast iPhone factory in Zhengzhou on Wednesday, confronting hazmat-clad personnel wielding batons in a rare display of public anger in China. In the wake of the unrest, Zhengzhou authorities ordered mass testing and an effective lockdown for several districts in the central Chinese city starting Friday. City centre residents cannot leave the area unless they have a negative Covid test...
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China iPhone factory workers take the money and leave after protests
24Nov By adminNo Comments
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China iPhone factory workers take the money and leave after protests

[ad_1] Employees are leaving a vast Foxconn iPhone factory in central China over working conditions and Covid restrictions, relieved to be taking pay-offs home after angry protests at the Taiwanese tech giant's plant.The workers are leaving the plant in Zhengzhou in the wake of bloody clashes with police, in which more than a dozen protesters were hurt, furious about Foxconn's failure to deliver promised bonuses, employees told AFP. "The contract suddenly changed and everyone was unhappy, in addition the previous incidents at Foxconn made everyone lose trust, so the protests happened," one female worker who wished to remain anonymous told AFP. Foxconn has been desperate to keep operations ticking along at the factory, the world's biggest manufacturer of iPhones, after a handful of Covi...
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Violence at China iPhone plant as FURIOUS workers smash spy cameras
23Nov By adminNo Comments
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Violence at China iPhone plant as FURIOUS workers smash spy cameras

[ad_1] In shocking scenes of violence, men wielding sticks smashed surveillance cameras and windows at an Apple iPhone supplier Foxconn plant in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou. In shocking scenes of violence, men wielding sticks smashed surveillance cameras and windows at an Apple iPhone supplier Foxconn plant in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou.  Scenes broadcast live on the Kuaishou short video platform showed on Wednesday.Hundreds of workers protested at the campus, home to the world's largest iPhone factory, where many chanted "give us our pay". They were surrounded by people in full hazmat suits, some carrying batons. The images, which could not immediately be verified by Reuters, come after weeks of turmoil which have seen scores of employees flee the factory over COVID-19 controls....
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Shocking social media videos show PROTESTS at Apple iPhone factory in China over lockdown
23Nov By adminNo Comments
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Shocking social media videos show PROTESTS at Apple iPhone factory in China over lockdown

[ad_1] Home Tech News Shocking social media videos show PROTESTS at Apple iPhone factory in China over lockdown Workers are protesting by carrying out a large-scale march at the Foxconn plant in Central China. By: AP | Updated on: Nov 23 2022, 14:09 IST People crossing downed barricades at Foxconn's iPhone plant in Zhengzhou, Central China. (REUTERS) People crossing downed barricades at Foxconn's iPhone plant in Zhengzhou, Central China. (REUTERS) Social media videos show worker protests at world's biggest Apple iPhone factory over pay disputes amid virus lockdown. Follow HT Tech for the latest tech news and reviews , also keep up with us on Twitter, Facebook, Google News, and Instagram. For our latest...
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