Apple’s major supplier Foxconn said on Thursday a “technical error” occurred when hiring new recruits at a COVID-hit iPhone factory in China and apologized to workers after the company was rocked by fresh labor unrest.
Men smashed surveillance cameras and clashed with security personnel as hundreds of workers protested at the world’s biggest iPhone plant in Zhengzhou city on Wednesday, in rare scenes of open dissent in China sparked by claims of overdue pay and frustration over severe coronavirus disease 2019 restrictions.
“We apologize for an input error in the computer system and guarantee that the actual pay is the same as agreed and the official recruitment posters.” The largest protests had died down by Thursday and the company was communicating with employees engaged in smaller protests, a Foxconn source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Zhengzhou announced on Wednesday that it would conduct mass coronavirus testing as China reported a record 31,444 new daily cases of locally acquired COVID.In some ways, Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant operates like a small city. Home to over 200,000 workers, the compound has dormitories, restaurants, basketball courts, and a football pitch across its sprawling roughly 1.4 million-square-meter facility.
Apple said it had staff at the factory and was “working closely with Foxconn to ensure their employees’ concerns are addressed.”
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