Workers on Strike at Apple iPhone Touch-screen Supplier
The iPhone is more than the sum of its many parts, but when the part in question is the touch-screen itself, and workers at the manufacturer’s Suzhou, China facility go on strike, we have to wonder what that will do for supplies in the medium term?
More than 2,000 workers gathered and damaged facilities and vehicles after rumors that the factory may not pay a planned bonus for 2009, the [21st Century Business Herald] said, citing the statement. The plant belongs to Taiwan-based Wintek Corp., the world’s biggest touch-screen maker for mobile phones.
Wintek is a name we’ve also heard in conjunction with rumored iTablet and iPhone HD panels, so what if any impact this has on availability for both existing and potential future devices is hard to assess.
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good for them
“Dear Workers:
We know we only pay you $2 a day, and we made eleventy billion dollars off of you this year, but we just can’t swing bonuses this year. However, we have enrolled you in the Jelly of the Month Club.
Enjoy your strawberry preserves.
Sincerely,
Wintek Corp”
Dear Workers, I only get paid $1 a year. Its not that big of a deal.
Steve
Sent from my iPhone
What a perfect time for them to go on strike. If it’s true, good for them. Apple’s dropping a massive dook in their trousers as we speak.
Lots of workers littering the streets here in America. Maybe time to move those jobs back.
“Dear Workers, I only get paid $1 a year. Its not that big of a deal.
Steve”
CLASSIC…!!!
Happy to see support for workers here. Strikes in the ‘workers’ state’ though seem to show some cracks in the Chinese Communist Party’s facade. I agree that it would be great to get some of these jobs back in the US, and few big corps have both the political leaning and the big bucks to actually invest in such a move for their supply chain. Apple? Steve!
@Lady Kaede:
The plant belongs to a Taiwan-based company. So its ok if the mainland workers strike and rampage. /snark
Dear workers,
Come on.. Let’s be frank for a moment. All you do is touch screens all day! Besides, you all should thank god you’re in Taiwan and not in Haiti.
Management.