Apple continues to pile up problems in China and it could affect us all

At this time of the year, iPhone factories Mansana They’re hiring thousands of extra workers to keep up with demand for the Christmas season, but the opposite seems to be happening, aside from a significant drop in purchases in the last quarter.

Well, it looks like it doesn’t end there, and two weeks after Apple warned of production delays in China amid tightening COVID-19 restrictions, the giant is facing more trouble as worker protests erupted at its largest manufacturing partner, Foxconn.

For comparison, one of the largest manufacturers iPhone Apple is owned by Hon Hai Technology Group, better known as Foxconn, a Taiwanese company with factories in several countries. One of its largest facilities is located in Zhengzhou, Chinanicknamed by the locals as “the city of the iPhone”.

Hundreds of workers clashed with policejudging by the videos released in recent days by Foxconn workers in Douin and Kuaishou.

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Foxconn riots and fierce battle between Apple workers ensues

Foxconn’s Zhengzhou plant was to produce 80% of iPhone 14 models and 85% of iPhone Pro models by the end of this year. However, due to China’s “COVID-19 zero” policy, Foxconn workers began to lay off workers.

China’s main justification for maintaining policies and lockdowns, as well as mass testing and mandatory lockdowns, is that the virus is too deadly to be tolerated.

Since then, and seeing the situation, Apple has announced that shipments of the iPhone 14 Pro will be smaller than expected. Foxconn has also shifted some of its iPhone production to factories in India, hoping to make up for losses, though none of that is expected.

Things began to heat up, and at the end of October thousands of Foxconn employees left the campus where they lived. during previous weeks in a “closed system” designed to slow the spread of Covid.

This incident we are telling you about is the culmination of everything. If he is already desperate to be locked up, let’s add denial of bonuses to employees for work in conditions affected by the pandemic and the fear of being infected as they live with infected companions.

It all ended in the worst possible way: some videos show workers leaving their dormitories and security personnel beating them up.

Foxconn workers wrote on social media that, as in Shanghai with Tesla and other closed places, food, water and other necessities are in short supply and the situation is unbearable. We hope that with all this on the table, Apple knows how to make a face about this and solve this big problem that it already has, like that’s not enough.