Foxconn to reopen iPhone factory after COVID-19 riots and declining revenue - Colorado Springs Gazette

A cardinal shaper successful Apple's proviso chain intends to afloat reopen its largest Chinese iPhone factory that closed aft hundreds of employees protested COVID-19 restrictions, easing the tech-related supply-chain struggles facing the manufacture and hurting consumers.

Foxconn, which operates the world's largest iPhone mill successful Zhengzhou, announced connected Monday that it intended to bring the institution to afloat output by precocious December oregon aboriginal January, according to Reuters. Workers disrupted production, alleging that the institution planned to hold bonus wage and that it had forced caller employees to unrecorded with those who tested positive.

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The institution besides announced that it experienced a diminution successful gross reflective of the accumulation and proviso issues that plague the manufacturing industry. Revenue fell 11.4% twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth successful November, and 29% since October, according to the Financial Times. While the institution did not explicitly sermon the iPhone oregon the protests, it did enactment that the driblet successful income was due to the fact that "a information of shipments [were] being impacted by the epidemic successful Zhengzhou."

Workers astatine the Zhengzhou mill had been forced to unrecorded successful mill surviving quarters to proceed moving without hazard of vulnerability amid a monthlong lockdown successful the Chinese city. Tensions betwixt unit and enactment continued to emergence until workers rioted extracurricular the mill connected Nov. 23. Videos showed that the workers were attacked by radical successful hazmat suits wielding batons and teardrop gas.

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The Foxconn protestation is not the archetypal outbreak of choler from Chinese employees implicit COVID-19 restrictions. Hundreds of workers fought with information successful May astatine Quanta Computer's Shanghai mill aft being barred from leaving the mill for months.

Zhengzhou has been nether lockdown for a period owed to China's COVID-zero policy, which typically restricts full cities to halt the dispersed of COVID-19. The metropolis ended the lockdown past week aft numbers dropped.

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