Posted on 09/24/2012 5:32:54 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
TAIPEI — 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 about 79,000 people in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan, while police and company officials investigate the cause of the disturbance.
Foxconn said the trouble started with a personal row that blew up into a brawl. But some people posting messages on a Twitter-like site said factory guards had beaten workers and that sparked the melee.
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First Rule: Don’t talk about iphone Brawl Club.
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I wonder how many millions of Iphones have been spiked, tampered with or had some component compromised.
And that is just another reason why I won’t brand myself with the yellow hot Apple branding iron and complacently follows the rest of the herd.
I like my Samsung Galaxy S.
Is it a god time to move those factories again?
Our economy is counting on it.
Just imagine however if Apple was your typical big corporation that liberals love to hate. Why this would be a huge front page story and it would be tied somehow to the Romney campaign - you know, big bad capitalists doing their thing.
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They were fighting to get the Lebron James $300 basketball shoes. Must’ve been on sale for $200.
They must’ve been the Obama supporters from the previous thread.
I never really thought of it like that but I’ll go along and say yes an Iphone user in a majority sense does appear to be mostly of the liberal crowd.
my kids drank the Apple KoolAid but I ain’t gonna
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Aside from FoxConn, it also appears that Apple is taking advantage of their low-wage employees at the Apple stores in the United States. The average fulltime Apple Store employee pulls in around a half million per year in revenue for the company but are paid peanuts - not much better than your average Wal-Mart store.
But liberals love Apple and hate Wal-Mart. Probably because Apple makes lots of shiny toys and their co-founder Steve Jobs was such a typical liberal - to wit, a condescending, self-important jerk to most people he dealt with.
Dark satanic mills in the Workers’ Paradise? Someone alert Michael Moore.
“The Workers’ Paradise” was my Polish dad’s favorite phrase to describe his formerly commie homeland. It kills me that we’re graduating commie-sympathizing kids from our own schoolag archipelago.
I wonder how many millions of Iphones have been spiked, tampered with or had some component compromised.
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The answer is ZERO , their QC checks would isolate the worker pretty fast , they would be out of a job and that means their family back in the hinterlands would begin starving (again).
I’m impressed that a Taiwanese company is using a factory in mainland China.
Fine by mean, I don’t have any Apple product and I doubt I ever will.
Cue “Kung Fu Fighting”.
Foxconn this foxconn that...I guess the media isn’t going to be satisfied until they are out of business...what is it that they hate, is it the ‘fox’ in their name or that they actually created jobs for people....
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