Employees of Apple’s manufacturing partner Foxconn went on strike late last week in Brazil with protests outside the company’s Jundiai factory continuing into today. We received several tips about the strike and translated reports from local news sources such as Globo.com claim all production lines at the factory stopped when the strike involving around 3,500 employees began last Thursday.
The strike, which isn’t the first at the Foxconn facility in Jundiai, hits as Apple takes a record number of preorders for the new iPhone 6 just days ahead of the device’s official launch on Sept 19. While the majority of Apple’s iPhone supplies come from Foxconn factories in China, the Jundiai factory does produce both iPhone and iPad units. It’s unclear how the strike might affect production of the new iPhones and other iOS devices built at the factory. Workers reportedly decided to strike while demanding changes to work and pay policies and have blocked other employees from entering the site.
Brazil isn’t included in Apple’s second wave of iPhone launch countries later this month on September 26, and the company’s website doesn’t yet list an availability date for Brazilians.
Earlier today we got some stats on Apple’s iPhone 6 production woes with The Wall Street Journal reporting that Foxconn is producing around 540,000 units a day at its various facilities.
We’ve reached out to Foxconn for comment and we’ll update if we hear back.
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Im going to admit that the reason I opened this article was to check the girl in pink’s butt! I can’t be the only one haha.
You’re gross.
You’re heterophobic! :’)
If you haven’t been, this is what Brazil is like. Booty paradise, man.
Are the men hot too?
You do not want to visit this place unless you like your body parts floating in the river or your privates cut off. The crime and brutality is out of control.
You aren’t the only, and it’s worth it! :-))
I did notice!!! Brazilian women….. Mmmmmm
Heheh. :-P It is fairly common here, yes. And I bet many others stopped reading the headline when spotting that girl.
for more on that, check the video:
http://g1.globo.com/sao-paulo/sorocaba-jundiai/noticia/2014/09/grevistas-tentam-impedir-entrada-de-funcionarios-na-foxconn-em-jundiai.html
I want my damn iPhone 6 plus now!! Stupid brazilians!! Time to spend the extra money Apple & move production to the US.
Because workers here in the states never go on strike.
Wonder if those Brazilians are carrying signs demanding a “living wage” and “15” like our hamburger friends here in the US are doing?
americans strike even more, you numbnut
I would like Apple to move all their production and assembly to the USA. It could shore up their product leaks and generally be the right thing to do for our country. I wonder how much that would affect the cost of their devices.
So, so, so rude.
Here in Brazil, economy is going from bad to worse due to the bad government that has been destroying the country since 2010. Apple has nothing to do with it, ofc, and neither do spoiled people like you. But when facility workers face the cruelty of inflation combined with static salaries, it is their *right* to protest, to strike, otherwise they cannot, and will not be heard by those in a higher hierarchy. It is legal, in these Southern lands, to pursue a fair retribution for your work.
So, worry not, oh, smartest of the people, you shall have your brand new iPhone sooner then us, the stupid Brazilians. :-)
I agree with Ednar! LAD! but on topic, this will only encourage Apple to try and take manufacturing back to the USA
What a bunch of idiots. Don’t like your job? Good then quit it don’t stop others from working. They should be a police intervention and they should get fired and go to jail. People that actually want to do their job should be employed
Scab.
Convince me how setting up in Brazil, the land of Huehuehue, was a good idea when one considers its undisciplined workforce that’ll strike over almost everything. Corruption, high tariffs and high wages for the output being produced.
It was the only way to sell iPhones in Brazil. Their import tariffs are so large that very few would buy them. It’s their governments way of forcing outside companies to build production there, and boost business for existing companies.
This is actually the case, the iPhones made in Brazil are for the Brazil market only. This should only affect the Brazilian market.
Apple Store ship times for US, UK and Canada seem to be holding up though:
http://iphone-inventory.blogspot.ca/2014/09/iphone-6-pre-order-tracker.html
I guess this could have been part of the reason for the 6 Plus delays.
Who cares… Demand for iPhone6 in the region will encourage citizens to become scabs to break the union and get their precious iPhones.
Meanwhile, folks in the rest of the world will be enjoying their new phones and watching the mayhem and enjoying the booty pics!
Can’t think of a worse PR move for the union than to get between consumers and their precious shiny new iPhones!
From the union’s perspective it is the very best time to strike.
Someone should tell these people that they can be replaced with Chinese employees for pennies on the dollar, be happy they have a job, and get back to work.
Just shut the fuck up why don’t you @jugiraud
:roll:
With 200,000 employees at Foxbutt, nee, Foxconn pumping out 540k iPhones a day, this strike will result in (540,000/200,00=2.7*3,500=9,450 iPhones..
Oh well.
How do I edit my post? (in order to correct the 200,000)
Employees who strike usually build shoddy product afterwards if they don’t get exactly what they want (Detroit). Building factories in countries permitting labor unions to strike because they want to is a poor management decision (Brazil). When factory employes at Apple made noise to unionize last century, Steve moved assembly to China. Foxconn should close the factory and abandon any future builds in the USA and any other countries with abusive labor unions.