In a strange time when giants like Meta and Twitter have reduced their staff, now the company singled out for the working conditions of its employees is Apple, specifically Foxconn’s iPhone factory in Zhengzhou, China.
The problems in the company of the workers led them to organize to protest conspicuously, spreading the riots in the Asian giantaccording to the report published on the website of mashable.
The Foxconn factory workforce publicly claimed that the site continues to operate under the blockades and sanitary regulations due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic and its variants in China.
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, The protests were triggered after the Taiwanese multinational announced a delay in the payment of bonuses for workers who decided to remain in the factory.
What happens in the factory?
Since Chinese regulators reinstated the country’s COVID-19 lockdowns, the factory has been operating under “closed-loop operations.” This means that Foxconn workers must stay inside the iPhone factory 24 hours a day to continue working.
Thousands of workers reportedly left the factory due to deteriorating living conditions and dwindling food rations.
To convince the workers to stay, the company promised to pay higher bonuses and salaries to those who stayed. The authorities have also played a role in hiring new employees who had also been promised higher salaries.
Aiden Chau of the advocacy group China Labor said: “It is now apparent that closed-loop production at Foxconn only helps prevent COVID from spreading to the city, but does nothing for the factory workers.”.