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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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Over 20,000 new hires have left Apple supplier Foxconn’s iPhone plant in China -source
25Nov By adminNo Comments
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Over 20,000 new hires have left Apple supplier Foxconn’s iPhone plant in China -source

[ad_1] More than 20,000 employees, most of them were new hires not yet working on the production line, have left Apple supplier Foxconn's Zhengzhou plant. More than 20,000 employees, most of them were new hires not yet working on the production line, have left Apple supplier Foxconn's Zhengzhou plant in China, a Foxconn source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. The person said the departure was set to complicate the company's previous target to resume full production by the end of November, following worker unrest that rocked production of the world's largest iPhone factory. Foxconn unrest risks iPhone shipments, weighs on Apple shares Foxconn's flagship iPhone plant in China is set to see a further reduction in November shipments after the latest bout of worker u...
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Foxconn apologises for pay dispute at China iPhone factory
24Nov By adminNo Comments
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Foxconn apologises for pay dispute at China iPhone factory

[ad_1] Foxconn apologised for a pay dispute that triggered employee protests at a factory where anti-virus controls have slowed production. The company that assembles Apple Inc.'s iPhones apologised on Thursday for a pay dispute that triggered employee protests at a factory where anti-virus controls have slowed production.Employees complained Foxconn Technology Group changed the terms of wages offered to attract them to the factory in the central city of Zhengzhou. Foxconn is trying to rebuild the workforce after employees walked out last month over complaints about unsafe conditions. Videos on social media showed police in white protective suits kicking and clubbing workers during the protest that erupted on Tuesday and lasted into the next day.Foxconn, the biggest contract assembler...
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Female iPhone Factory Worker Walked 25 Miles to Escape Covid Lockdown in China
1Nov By adminNo Comments
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Female iPhone Factory Worker Walked 25 Miles to Escape Covid Lockdown in China

[ad_1] It was Sunday when Dong Wanwan decided to give up her job at the world’s largest iPhone factory and walk home. It was Sunday when Dong Wanwan decided to give up her job at the world's largest iPhone factory and walk home.The 20-year-old had been working for the past three months on the production lines at Foxconn Technology Group's factory in Zhengzhou, one of tens of thousands helping put together Apple Inc. iPhones that would be sent around the globe. It was a coveted job, among the country's best-paid blue-collar gigs. Then Covid began spreading on the manufacturing campus. The factory went into a “closed loop,” walling off the giant complex from the outside world. Trash piled up in hallways. Food was harder to come by. Many who got infected said they were forced to subsist ...
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China iPhone factory under lockdown quadruples bonuses for workers who stay
1Nov By adminNo Comments
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China iPhone factory under lockdown quadruples bonuses for workers who stay

[ad_1] The world's largest iPhone factory in central China told staff Tuesday it would quadruple their bonuses if they remained at the plant. The world's largest iPhone factory in central China told staff Tuesday it would quadruple their bonuses if they remained at the plant after scores of workers fled a Covid outbreak at the facility. China is the last major economy committed to a zero-Covid strategy, persisting with snap lockdowns, mass testing and lengthy quarantines in a bid to stamp out emerging outbreaks. But new variants have tested local officials' ability to snuff out flare-ups faster than they can spread, causing much of the country to live under an ever-changing mosaic of Covid curbs. Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn's plant in Zhengzhou has been under lockdown since mi...
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China Locks Down Almost 1 Million People Near iPhone Factory
17Oct By adminNo Comments
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China Locks Down Almost 1 Million People Near iPhone Factory

[ad_1] The iPhone manufacturing hub of Zhengzhou locked down one of its most-populated districts to tame a virus flareup. The iPhone manufacturing hub of Zhengzhou locked down one of its most-populated districts to tame a virus flareup, with creeping restrictions throughout China underscoring the constant threat of disruption companies face while the country sticks to Covid Zero. Almost 1 million residents of Zhongyuan district were ordered to stay at home starting Monday, except for when they need to undergo Covid testing, and non-essential businesses have been shut, according to a government notice. The wider restrictions follow the lockdown of some neighborhoods last week, catching many people by surprise after officials had said there wouldn't be a citywide lockdown. iPhone m...
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