Foxconn workers question why hours are being cut after FLA review
Workers at Apple supplier Foxconn are reportedly worried after it has been announced that their hours will be cut following an audit of its facilities.
Twenty-three-year-old Wu Jun is used to working long overtime hours to earn the bulk of her income. But after Foxconn announced it will cut hours for its employees, she and other employees expressed concern to Reuters that they won't make enough money to support their families.
Foxconn announced on Thursday that it would reduce employee working hours to 49 per week, including overtime. That change is one of a number made in response to violations found by the Fair Labor Association, which audited Foxconn's facilities at the request of Apple.
FLA issued its report on Thursday, revealing that it discovered excess working times and various code violations at three Foxconn factories that were investigated. The audit reviewed 3,000 staff hours and more than 35,000 workers.
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/03/30/foxconn_workers_question_why_hours_are_being_cut_after_fla_review.html
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the brand of computer I use is Al's Computer....I built it.....overclocked with SSD drives......
The negative spin yu speak of is taking the name Apple and putting it into a feed finder and coming up with articles......if the news is negative then that is Apple doing what it does best and someone else writing about it.....I simply inform others where to look for information......if you have some positive spin, I would welcome the links.....enlighten me please........
there defense is always picking up on language used by the questioner.....
I will ask again, do you have any positive links for Apple other than making money or how great they have recently treated there shareholders, all 30,000 of them....?
I think the number 30,000 works out to be less than >01% of 1%.........so please give me some positive links......
a lot more components are being assembled in the USA, parts are still manufactured overseas......
and I certainly do not want a job with Intel....
since that is what we get shoved down our throats when we are asked these questions......
What did you expect.....?......probably letting go of the workers that are complaining and putting up more nets around your buildings........
Unless you're going to suggest that they just love working there SO MUCH that they'll beg to work 80 hour weeks just for fun, and they don't actually NEED any of that money, like the $100 billion dollars Apple is holding offshore to keep it away from US taxes. 