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Here’s why Google and Apple don’t make their own phones
28 Dec 2025 10:42 GMT
… efficient. A company like Foxconn, for example, doesn’t … know it exists.
Additionally, Foxconn has manufacturing campuses set up … phone — the assembly that Foxconn handles — isn’t as … everything from accusations of child labor and general exploitation to …
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INVESTIGATIVE INTERVIEW – Exploited, bullied, humiliated workers: the hidden face of Apple, once again singled out for its factories in China despite previous warnings
26 Dec 2025 12:54 GMT
… Samsung, and Sony. However, Foxconn is accused of exploiting its … by the Taiwanese company Foxconn, which employs approximately 1 … ,2 million people. Foxconn assembles iPhones at its … old Foxconn factory worker. Apple claims to be vigilant about child labor, …
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Amazon investigating alleged child labor law violations
09 Aug 2019 19:44 GMT
(CNN) - A new report from China Labor Watch accuses Foxconn of worker abuse, poor pay and imposing long hours on employees who make popular Amazon devices. Amazon said in response that it has opened an investigation.
The report marks the organization's …
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Amazon probing child labor allegations against Foxconn in China
09 Aug 2019 20:50 GMT
Amazon says it is probing reports that found that teenage schoolchildren in China were illegally being forced by Foxconn to work overtime and night shifts at a manufacturing facility assembling Amazon's smart devices.
A spokesperson for Amazon told …
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Amazon is investigating alleged child labor law violations at a Foxconn facility that makes Echoes and Kindles
09 Aug 2019 16:30 GMT
The report marks the organization's second critical examination of the factory in more than a year.
"We do not tolerate violations of our Supplier Code of Conduct. We regularly assess suppliers, using independent auditors as appropriate, to …
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Amazon investigating claims its Chinese supplier used illegal child labor to make Alexa devices
09 Aug 2019 12:50 GMT
Chinese workers in the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, in southern China's Guangdong province.
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Chinese schoolchildren worked illegal overtime and night shifts to produce smart speakers for Amazon, according to leaked documents …
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Foxconn interns reportedly work long hours to produce Amazon Alexa products
15 Aug 2019 00:08 GMT
… child labor surrounding iPhones and other products produced by the company Hengyang Foxconn … report found that interns at Foxconn kept “their head down for … engaged in monotonous, repetitive tasks.
Foxconn claimed the issue lay with …
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Foxconn Founder Terry Gou Wants to be Taiwans President
12 Jul 2019 16:49 GMT
… pants. When the billionaire Foxconn CEO gives televised interviews … will be successful.”
Foxconn Technology Group is now … Foxconn’s factories became synonymous for excessive overtime, low wages, child labor … he says. However, Foxconn’s previous experience in …
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Vietnam Bolsters Trade Ambitions with Continued U.S. Talks and Pursuit of Global Free Trade Agreements
24 Sep 2025 12:47 GMT
… such as forced labor and child labor, which have occasionally been raised … companies like Samsung, LG, and Foxconn establishing large-scale manufacturing facilities …
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Foxconn factory in Wisconsin expected to bring 13,000 jobs — and environmental concerns
28 Jun 2018 14:46 GMT
… Department of Natural Resources granted Foxconn’s
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request … , reportedly facing polling backlash over Foxconn incentives. Foxconn, meanwhile, maintains that environmental … . In the DRC, for instance, child labor is common, and proceeds from …