When skilled locations with screen entertainment when we hand Apple products, Apple products in the Chinese foundries have a large number of workers skilled assembly with Apple products; listed on the new Apple product was the night queuing in order to pre-empt buy when new products, in Apple products foundries, workers are queuing up in more than a dozen hours after work waiting for dinner. February 5, City News reporters came to Shanghai, a staff of nearly 60,000 Apple foundries, five days of work to the identity of the plant workers, experienced Apple foundry has cheap labor occurs some things, and the assembly process of the Apple iPad.
Scenery infinite compared with
Apple products, the working conditions of Chinese factory workers like?
A candidates
Hundreds of people a day new into the plant, the trick to walk
February 5, 2013, the Spring Festival approaching, many large-scale electronic foundries in Shanghai, when most factories began when employees leave, recruitment was in full swing, which include nearly 60,000 employees Apple foundries. Because these electronic factory is a large demand for young labor force, many professional intermediaries and dispatch company raring to seize before the Spring Festival this last opportunity to make money.
Electronics factory, a large demand for artificial echoes, so dispatch units to the employment agency young workers flocked to the statement in accordance with the employment agency, as long as you are a normal person can find a job. Here, the new workers entering the factory is divided into labor dispatch workers, student workers, as well as internal recommend workers.
Reporter saw Apple foundries around the plant to form a certain number of employment agencies, almost every employment agency in the name of the brand of the electronics factory job in recruitment, some eighteen-year-old student appeared with a blanket suitcase gathered at the door of the employment agency, waiting for the work they have been taken to an electronics factory. In which an employment agency, the reporter learned that, due to the New Year of the plant away a group of workers, workers frequently resign, so this plant most of the year in the job.
More than 14:00, the various employment agencies bring together all job seekers waiting for in electronic factory gate collection into the plant, the reporter learned that these young job seekers mostly after 90, they come from all over the country, Shanxi, Shaanxi , Shandong, Jiangsu. These job seekers, is about to graduate from school the student workers are called short-term internships, some students looking for a place to leave their own work, the large number of migrant workers for several years, but only age 17-year-old after 90 people, although similar in age, but their experiences are very different.
Reporter with more than 60 other job-seekers were taken to the factory, the reporter learned from the groups of employees at plant recruitment day, nearly a hundred new workers into the factory work, but in their words "trick, go also. "
B training
Female employees of sexual harassment, bow tears endure
Nearly 60,000 manufacturers, whether the normal exchanges between employees is a problem, the factory has set up a psychological counseling room, training new employees, a training content is about sexual harassment, because the main staff of the factory adolescents.
Reporters in the day into the plant, the workers are receiving training in job content to see this scene:
When employees receive training in job content to sit together, sit next to a row of a dozen. Sat four or five meters on the right-hand side of the reporter's female employees of an age is probably about 18 years old, sitting across her male employees in the three age early 20s. Beginning and nothing but With the gradually hilarious, sitting on the the reporter right hand next to a staff of reporters and said: "You see that girl over there crying." Reporters look down the direction he was referring to the past, the reporter saw red in the the girl eye socket off a reporter right hand forty-five meters hand constantly wiping her tears, sitting next to three male employees have been constantly talking. Curious reporter, ask the next male employee said: "Why is she crying? Is tired?" That male employees said: "not a few men bully cry, you listen to them a few men in with that woman say. "
Reporters close to those employees, three male employees that female employees are around to talking about the macabre words as well as the induction of the topic, regardless of the woman employees how to evade, the reporter saw the lady staff from the position at the beginning of want that several male employees gradually escape the stool to move several times, but still there is no effect, for the expression of female employees, the three male employees apparently did not bother, but around the female employees to continue their obscene topics with provocative joke, in the face of such verbal sexual harassment, the female staff can only shed tears in silence, and not dare to leave, because once you leave demerit.
Employee had to remind reporters next heard rather awkward, sometimes directed at journalists issued an awkward laugh, but he said, "like this there is often, she just had just arrived not in the habit."
C security
Not wearing pants with decorative metal into the plant
Safety checks when the plant employees into the plant so impressed reporter the entrance of each branch of the set with a few Road security gate, each security doors have a the Avalue personnel stand guard checks, these checks to prevent employees from carrying metal objects or information access for the transmission equipment factory, but also to prevent employees with factory area.
According to the reporter, each branch no workers are allowed to carry information products into the shop, including the camera function of the mobile phone as well as U disk, data cable, cameras and other electronic information products, as well as other controlled items, including iron items are classified as carrying the first controlled items is prohibited.
All employees to enter
production workshop to go through the factory entrance security gate, the reporter has learned, these security gate metal keen as small as a ball-point pen head through the security gate will issue an alert. Factory regulations does not allow employees to wear iron belt iron pants decorated even entering the plant, so they distributed to workers is similar to sweatpants tooling.
Workers to work, each at the security gate has a Avalue personnel stand guard, working people have to go through the security gate to the hands of all the items to the staff on Avalue check confirmed that no prohibited items allowed by The staff are also through the security gate, body iron items, security doors will sound an alarm, this worker should the second through the security gate. Second through the security gate when sirens or loud, workers have to stand to the side to accept the The Avalue staff checked with a metal detector, and also to be recording a special demerit.
The security gate is divided into men's security gate and female security gate. Me what things, ah, how will ring, I'll look them up. "So often hear employees speak to himself at the security gate.
The factory's the Avalue staff can say Buyi Kong, ten steps a sentry post in the factory district allowed casual smoking. Plant in the region more vehicular traffic, in order to ensure the safety of workers, with sidewalks, walking more than 3 people allowed to side-by-side, arranged in a must, otherwise they will be punished.
Could not find for the class, did not dare to go to the bathroom
Reporters after training, points to a the production iPadmini production and assembly plant.
When the first day of the reporters and other new workers into the workshop, the new workers faced harsh criticism and cries led older employees, this attitude makes many employees feel afraid of the new plant, in the new staff points to different production lines, where their team to face education.
Some team leader at the outset launched an offensive, new employees heavily wigged hesitate to use similar intimidation in order to establish their own prestige and even in the training process of production tasks. A group leader has said so: "My staff is to listen to you I am not satisfied, you can express factory inside prohibit fighting, but you always want to get off work, you always want the factory it that time, I will was waiting at the door, we exchange exchange outside the factory. "
A female employee told reporters about his face interpersonal pressure, "8-person dormitory quarters, the 10-person dormitory, and even a 12-person dormitory quarters would have lived, but the people who live in the dorm often change, sometimes twelve weeks for a few people, just to understand the same dormitory roommates, but will leave, so there is little to ingratiate themselves with roommates or friends. "
The dormitory staff mobility, coupled with the plant nearly 60,000 the number of employees, and only on the same production lines with a team of workers may know each other. But a work in the factory a few months of staff told reporters: "team leader are very familiar with each other, themselves a gang."
Staff mobility, new employees constantly replenish the production line, the production line is constantly novice learning. In the workshop, the workers wearing the hats of different colors according to the different positions, including wearing a pink hat workers on the shop floor is called the universal workers, such workers responsible for the replacement of other employees on the production line because urgent job vacancies.
However, after the reporter into the workshop, a group leader told us that the new employees, "toilet provides a time, a day in addition to meal time, only two time periods can go to the bathroom, the two time periods only ten minutes." reporter has learned that, if an employee is able to find the workers go to the bathroom he Dinggang universal before they can go to the bathroom, or can not leave the hands of the living go to the bathroom, until there is universal workers are willing to Dinggang. Generally speaking, in the first-line production lines operating employees, not a last resort is not to leave the production line.
One employee described to reporters assumed the tasks, the motherboard is put to the iPad shell inside, he told reporters, "I can not leave my seat, because once you leave, that I was not any dry for me, I installed the motherboard machine heap a lot and then wait, with the pipeline go, the people behind me pushed up those machines that have not installed the motherboard will last piled high are a dry, event was recording a special demerit in vain. "
February 7, away from the New Year's Eve there two days, with the reporter into the plant work a Shaanxi 90 workers Zhang told reporters: "Originally home for the holiday, but difficult to buy tickets I was in school students, winter break to come here to work, the New Year will not go back. "
Holiday employees in other factories are pulling luggage home New Year, many employees choose not to go home to the New Year, but stay in the factory to work overtime during the Spring Festival overtime, overtime will be much higher than usual overtime.
Staff firmly set on the production line workers to operate the speed with the pipeline down waiting to be assembled iPad mini seconds to count how long it will take seconds to complete an assembly, if a worker working speed is not fast, something on the production line will be a backlog, and the resulting loss or makes employees to bear.
E products
many iPad accessories are from Foxconn
From initial small parts to form a complete iPad, workers put accessories from around the world, taken out from the packaging, and then carefully assembled together. Many consumers for Apple products, parts suppliers are very interested in what Apple products which factory electronic accessories?
Reporters into the plant work is assigned to a production line, the main task is sitting on the bench a glue drops to iPad Home key places, the reporter from the transparent plastic tray carefully to come up with the iPad shell, and then a species of gum drops in the position of the Home key, and finally put it is located next to one of the reporters left hand instrument, waiting for the glue to meet certain requirements. This work is simple and repetitive.
Apple iPad production workshop, each line has a material point, the point of these materials is the main distribution center for Apple iPad accessories, production line workers run out of the hands of accessories will be absorbed by the material point is responsible for providing a new Apple product accessories material point, reporters see boxes of various materials pieces are placed neatly. These accessories are valuable for workers, it is placed when they take extra care, one is responsible for loading the the iPad display board workers told reporters, "should very carefully check each time to install the motherboard when the motherboard is not bad bad should tell superiors did not find in the installed motherboard when the motherboard is bad, then assembled after the discovery of the motherboard is bad, it is necessary to bear our own losses, but in general, motherboard through rigorous testing are sent before we plant. "
Apple iPad accessories are what manufacturers provide it?
The these supply manufacturers may be able to pile up the materials from the material point box on the label to see what, who used to work in Foxconn workers pointed to a materials box told reporters: "Although this box all in English, but I see very clear, and their accessories are a large part of Foxconn products. "
Reporters also see in the material point, LG and AU Optronics display panel, and a small number of parts from the plant's own production of parts, these accessories suppliers often have their own computers and even mobile phone brands, however, most of the material Foxconn logo printed on the box.
A staff briefed reporters, in order to ensure the safety of iPad accessories, each accessory use must be strictly complied with the provisions of, for example, to hit the screw on the iPad If the screw is dropped on the ground is not allowed to be used again, must be placed in collection box, factory employees briefed reporters, to complete the assembly of an iPad, at least seventy to eighty processes to complete, the completion rate for each process to use measured in seconds, after the assembly, but also into the market, only qualified products to test a number of tests on the iPad.
