Undercover Reporter Infiltrates Foxconn to Report on Poor Working Conditions

An undercover reporter infiltrated Foxconn for 10 days and has provided a detailed report on the working conditions at the factory to the Shanghai Evening Post, reports M.I.C Gadget.

The reporter underwent training at the Tai Yuan Foxconn factory for seven days on the eighth day he worked on producing the iPhone 5. He was only able to stay for 10 days due to the undesirable working conditions.

When presented with the back of the new iPhone the workers were told, "This is the new unleashed iPhone 5 back plate, you should be honored having the chance to produce it"


Here's just a taste of the ten day diary..

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An iPhone 5 back-plate run through in front of me almost every 3 seconds. I have to pickup the back-plate and marked 4 position points using the oil-based paint pen and put it back on the running belt swiftly within 3 seconds with no errors. After such repeat action for several hours, I have terrible neckache and muscle pain on my arm. A new worker who sat opposite of me gone exhausted and laid down for a short while. The supervisor has noticed him and punished him by asking him to stand at one corner for 10 minutes like the old school days. We worked non-stop from midnight to the next morning 6 a.m but were still asked to keep on working as the production line is based on running belt and no one is allowed to stop. I'm so starving and fully exhausted.

By my own calculations, I have to mark five iPhone plates every minute, at least. For every 10 hours, I have to accomplish 3,000 iPhone 5 back plates. There are total 4 production lines in charge of this process, 12 workers in every line. Each line can produce 36,000 iPhone 5 back plates in half a day, this is scary … I finally stopped working at 7 a.m. We were asked to gather again after work. The supervisor shout out loud in front of us: "Who wants to rest early at 5 a.m !? We are all here to earn money ! Let's work harder !" I was thinking who on earth wants to work two extra hours overtime for only mere 27 yuan (USD$4) !?
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