More than three thousand Foxconn workers go on strike, affecting several iPhone 5 production lines
Somewhere between three thousand and four thousand workers at the Foxconn factory in Zhengzhou, China went on strike today, a move that halted production on several iPhone 5 production lines throughout the factory. According to China Labor Watch , the driving force behind this strike are demands for exacting quality despite a lack of training for workers to meet those quality demands. The report also cites a demand from the factory that employees work through a holiday and claims that most of the workers on strike were from the quality control portion of the assembly process. Apparently, the combination of exacting precision manufacturing and the lack of proper training led the workers to strike. Of course, this is just the latest in a l…
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More than three thousand Foxconn workers go on strike, affecting several iPhone 5 production lines
