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Foxconn reconnaît avoir employé des mineurs en Chine - 17 octobre 2012
Le groupe taïwanais Foxconn, un des grands sous-traitants d’Apple, Nokia et Sony, a reconnu employer dans une usine chinoise des jeunes de 14 ans, confirmant ainsi des informations d’une organisation de défense des droits des travailleurs. L’ONG China Labor Watch, basée aux Etats-Unis, et les médias chinois ont rapporté (...)
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Large-scale Strike of iPhone 5 Production Lines at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou Factory - 6 octobre 2012
China Labor Watch (CLW) announced that at 1:00PM on October 5 (Beijing time), a strike occurred at Foxconn’s Zhengzhou factory that, according to workers, involved three to four thousand production workers. In addition to demanding that workers work during the holiday, Foxconn raised overly strict demands on (...)
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Foxconn workers reportedly strike over iPhone quality demands - 6 octobre 2012
Workers at a key Foxconn facility producing iPhones went on strike earlier today, according to a report from a Chinese watchdog group.
Approximately 3,000 to 4,000 workers at one of Foxconn’s factories in Zhengzhou, in China’s Henan province, reportedly went on strike earlier today over what a watchdog group says (...)
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Foxconn : des milliers de salariés chinois se mettent en grève - 6 octobre 2012
Les cadences élevées imposées aux salariés chinois travaillant pour Foxconn et les coups de canif réguliers à leurs droits ont conduit plusieurs milliers d’employés à se mettre en grève pendant plusieurs heures vendredi. Malgré les efforts du manufacturier taïwanais de faire bonne figure, la situation sociale dans ses usines (...)
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Foxconn China plant closes after clash involving 2,000 - 24 septembre 2012
Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group, which assembles Apple’s iPhones and makes components for top global electronics companies, closed a plant in China on Monday after about 2,000 workers were involved in a brawl at a company dormitory.
It was not clear how long the shutdown would last at the plant, which employs (...)
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2000 ouvriers de Foxconn se battent. "Sans lien avec le travail" - 24 septembre 2012
Selon Foxconn, qui parle d’un simple "incident", les émeutes qui l’ont contraint ces dernières heures à fermer l’une de ses usines seraient sans lien avec le travail. Mais la révolte, qui a impliqué environ 2 000 ouvriers, aurait été causée par l’attitude d’un agent de sécurité, dont les actions ont été plusieurs fois (...)
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Apple : les usines Foxconn emploieraient de force des étudiants pour produire l’iPhone 5 - 11 septembre 2012
De nouvelles accusations pleuvent contre le sous-traitant taïwanais d’Apple, Foxconn, au sujet des conditions de travail dans ses usines, écrit le New York Times, lundi 10 septembre. L’industriel force des étudiants stagiaires à travailler sur les lignes de montage des iPhone, selon l’ONG China Labor Watch, ce que (...)
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China Plant Again Faces Labor Issue on iPhones - 11 septembre 2012
As Apple prepares to unveil the latest iPhone this week, the company’s manufacturing partner in China, Foxconn Technology, is coming under renewed criticism over labor practices after reports that vocational students were being compelled to work at plants making iPhones and their components.
Foxconn has (...)
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Apple hit by China Foxconn factory report - 30 mars 2012
An independent investigation has found "significant issues" among working practices at Chinese plants making Apple iPhones and iPads.
The US Fair Labor Association (FLA) was asked by Apple to investigate working conditions at Foxconn after reports of long hours and poor safety.
The FLA says it has now secured (...)
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Apple’s factories in China are breaking employment laws, audit finds - 30 mars 2012
Foxconn pledges more staff and living wage after public investigation reveals long hours, low pay and safety failings
An audit of Apple’s Chinese factories details "serious and pressing" concerns over excessive working hours, unpaid overtime, health and safety failings, and management interference in trade unions. (...)
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Apple faces its ’Nike moment’ over working conditions in Chinese factories - 21 février 2012
Apple contractor Foxconn raises wages by 25% after reports of long hours for the hundreds of thousands of staff in China
Apple is facing a "Nike moment" which hit the shoe company in the 1990s when its use of cheap labour in the far east was revealed, one of the inspectors of Apple’s Chinese suppliers has said. (...)
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Apple’s "˜Nike moment’ over Foxconn iPad factory conditions - 21 février 2012
Conditions in factories owned by Apple’s contractor Foxconn have forced the iPad-maker to confront problems with staff welfare, an inspector has said.
Inaes Kaempfer, an auditor with the Fair Labor Assocation (FLA), told ABC News’s Nightline that publicity surrounding suicides and accidents at the Foxconn plant (...)
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Apple’s Foxconn Auditing Group "˜Surrounded With Controversy,’ Critics Say - 15 février 2012
Following ongoing public outcry and organized protests at Apple stores last week, Apple has announced that an organization called the Fair Labor Association is conducting independent assessments of worker conditions inside the factories of Foxconn, its manufacturing partner in China.
The FLA audit began this (...)
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Apple choisit une ONG controversée pour défendre ses sous-traitants iPhone - 15 février 2012
Il n’aura pas fallu vingt-quatre heures pour que les premières critiques tombent. Lundi 13 février, Apple avait annoncé que la Fair Labor Association (FLA), une ONG basée aux Etats-Unis, allait débuter des inspections dans la principale usine de son sous-traitant Foxconn, en Chine. Une réponse directe aux critiques (...)
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In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad - 30 janvier 2012
The explosion ripped through Building A5 on a Friday evening last May, an eruption of fire and noise that twisted metal pipes as if they were discarded straws.
After a rash of apparent suicide attempts, a dormitory for Foxconn workers in Shenzhen, China, had safety netting installed last May. Foxconn said it
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Apple hit by boycott call over worker abuses in China - 30 janvier 2012
US writers attack conditions at Foxconn plant and call for consumers to act
Apple, the computer giant whose sleek products have become a mainstay of modern life, is dealing with a public relations disaster and the threat of calls for a boycott of its iPhones and iPads.
The company’s public image took a dive after (...)
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Apple, gendarme et accusé sur les conditions de travail en Chine - 30 janvier 2012
Tout allait bien pour Apple depuis le début de l’année jusqu’à la publication, vendredi 27 janvier, dans le New York Times, d’une longue enquête qui dénonce les conditions de travail de ses sous-traitants en Chine. Leur "indifférence pour la santé des travailleurs" y est décrite comme "inquiétante", tandis que l’article (...)
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Apple factories accused of exploiting Chinese workers - 1er mai 2011
Poorly paid workers are said to work excessive hours and suffer humiliations in the drive to produce iPads and iPhones
The spate of suicides made headlines around the world. Last May, seven young Chinese workers producing Apple iPads for consumers across the globe took their own lives, prompting an investigation (...)
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Apple’s Chinese workers treated ’inhumanely, like machines’ - 1er mai 2011
Investigation finds evidence of draconian rules and excessive overtime to meet western demand for iPhones and iPads
An investigation into the conditions of Chinese workers has revealed the shocking human cost of producing the must-have Apple iPhones and iPads that are now ubiquitous in the west.
The research, (...)
