If there is anything Foxconn currently does not need, it is more tension among its workers.
However, a report suggests that the success of the iPhone 5, as well as an increase in orders from 8 to 10 million units in September to 14 to 16 million units in October will put Foxconn's employees under additional pressure. Apple said that it sold more than 5 million iPhone during its first weekend of the latest model's availability.
According to Digitimes, Foxconn currently employs more than 150,000 workers to assemble Apple's latest smartphone in Zhengzhou, China. To assist Foxconn recruit workers, the local government of Zhengzhou "is also offering employment subsidies", the report stated.
Following a string of suicides last year, Foxconn recently made headlines due to riots at the Taiyuan in the Shanxi Province, which employs about 79,000 people. While Foxconn said that the riots, which have resulted in ten reported deaths so far, were not work related, the additional workload surely does help calm the mood. The riots at Taiyuan involved more than 2,000 workers.
The new improved Foxconn...... now with 50% more nets
How many suicides does it take to assemble an IPhone ?....with suicide nets or without ?
Yeah I'm going to hell
LOL, I guess that the price would skyrocket up to 1k usd for the cheaper one.
You accidentally a word.
Oh...that doesn't matter, I'm sure all the overwhelmingly too-rich-to-exist Americans wouldn't mind paying $1K+ for their iPhones...nope, we'd not mind that one bit. Isn't that right?
Now *somebody* is shameless enough to claim, that it's "success" that can cause shortages and not the riots.
Wow guys. Impressive marketing skills. I guess "success", "apple" "iphone 5" in the title work, no matter if reality is on the contrary...
Yeah...and?
Great minds think alike.
Would never work, that would require common sense.
Even if American workers are more productive (are they quicker in putting Screw #1 into hole #1 ?) that is a lot of exported jobs !
I mean even if it takes 1 hour to put the few parts together this should not add more than $10 to the phone's cost.
I agree, except where you say it's nobody's fault. If Apple would let Foxconn have a slightly higher profit/unit produced (even at the "huge" expense of getting a couple bucks less profit per unit sold), on the condition that the extra money goes to the actual workers, there would be no issue. But, because Apple behaves like a greedy bastard, you got this.