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Workers protest at Foxconn plant in China

...Workers at a Chinese factory owned by Foxconn, Apple's main manufacturer, threatened... Read more

30 April, 2012 by Ryan Huang

Businesses left in dark over Olympic broadband crunch

With fewer than 100 days to go to the Olympics, businesses have not been publicly told whether to expect disruption to broadband services, as warned by LOCOG Read more

20 April, 2012 by Ben Woods

IT workers: 10 ways to avoid being outsourced

...everything works," Gartner's McDonald said. Yet according to McDonald, many IT workers use their knowledge to tell the business what is not possible and... Read more

29 September, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Microsoft investigates suicide threat at Xbox factory

...Microsoft is probing a report that more than 300 workers at a Foxconn factory that makes Xboxes in China threatened a mass... Read more

12 January, 2012 by Steven Musil

Autistic workers are untapped talent for IT, experts say

...think visually are some of the traits that make high-functioning autistic workers currently an untapped talent pool for the IT industry, industry watchers point... Read more

4 July, 2011 by Kevin Kwang

IT bosses: foreign workers are good for UK tech

...Far from damaging British interests, foreign IT companies and workers actually benefit the UK economy and jobs market, a technology conference heard... Read more

4 February, 2011 by Nick Heath

Government announces migration cap from 2011

...has announced it is to limit the number of skilled non-EU workers who can come to the UK — but has confirmed that staff entering... Read more

25 November, 2010 by Natasha Lomas

BT strike ballot dropped amid legal worries

...cancellation on Monday evening of a ballot for industrial action. The Communication Workers Union, which represents over 50,000 of the 96,000 staff at... Read more

6 July, 2010 by Richard Thurston

Foxconn audit finds violations in overtime and conditions

...worked by employees. The FLA said these factories "exceeded" 60 hours per worker, which Foxconn has now said will be scaled back to 49 hours... Read more

30 March, 2012 by Josh Lowensohn
IBM to shed 1,000 jobs, reports say

IBM to shed 1,000 jobs, reports say

...IBM is letting go of more than 1,000 workers across the US and Canada, according to a Bloomberg report on Tuesday... Read more

29 February, 2012 by Larry Dignan

Cook: Apple takes working conditions seriously

...the company's supply chain. Image credit: James Martin/CNET News "Whether workers are in Europe, or in Asia, or in the United States, we... Read more

15 February, 2012 by Rachel King

Apple begins labour checks at Foxconn plants

...Monday in the Shenzhen factory known as Foxconn City."We believe that workers everywhere have the right to a safe and fair work environment, which... Read more

14 February, 2012 by Don Reisinger

Unite suspends Fujitsu strike action

...was set to affect Fujitsu's Manchester premises, which house IT support workers. An earlier 24-hour walk-out in September left a datacentre in... Read more

5 October, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Foxconn eyes robot workforce

...famous by a rash of suicides, plans to replace some of its workers with robots. The Taiwanese company, which manufacturers laptops, mobile devices and other... Read more

1 August, 2011 by Steven Musil

Apple manufacturer criticised in undercover report

...Labour organisation Students and scholars against corporate misbehaviour (SACOM) released the report Workers as Machines: Military Management in Foxconn [PDF], which contains the findings of... Read more

14 October, 2010 by Mahesh Sharma

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@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

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