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81: 1136: 209:'s special personal assistant, Chen Peng, was elected as its first chair. Despite being the largest 'unionized' company in the world, with over 90% of Foxconn's 1.4 million workforce registered; the Foxconn Federation of Labour Unions ( 398:. Between 2010 and 2013, there was a dispute between three competing trade unions to represent the 2,000 Foxconn workers. Foxconn India initially recognized Foxconn India Thozhilalar Munnetra Sangam (FITMS) affiliated to the 881: 851: 276:(SACOM) report, Jenny Chan criticized the limited worker participation inside the Foxconn Trade Union and the lack of awareness or involvement of workers in the first democratic union elections held in early 2015. 680: 470:
Sources use conflicting pronouns/titles for Chen Peng. Chen Peng is a woman according to the Financial Times and researcher Jenny Chan. She also goes by Peggy in the English language.
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municipal state officials, Foxconn promised to form a union. However, nothing materialized as of November 2006. On the last day of that year, the Shenzhen branch of the
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with the union to match their salaries with the better paid, non-Apple contracted Foxconn workers. A prior strike happened in February 2013 for similar demands.
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as external auditor from 2012 to 2016. One of the Association's findings was that the Foxconn Trade Union failed to adequately represent workers. The
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party came into power, Foxconn India made a wage pact with their respective union Panchalai Anna Thozhilalar Sangam, which was valid until 2016.
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and nearly double the minimum wage. In 2012, by the time Foxconn Brazil opened a second plant, also in Jundiaí, which focused exclusively on
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took the unusual step of establishing Foxconn's first union, initially with 118 members out of the more than 240,000 workers at the
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journalists involved. Foxconn later dropped the lawsuit. In response to media pressure and local interventions by
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in 2000, with its first wage increase in 2002, with all future collective agreements including wage increases.
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criticized the FLA report for giving Apple and Foxconn 'undue' credit, despite ongoing issues including forced
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with them. In October 2010, some 1,200 workers belong to the Foxconn India Employees Union Foxconn (
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affected some 200 workers. According to FIST, most DMK workers transferred to FIST as a result.
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In the summer of 2006, the British, Chinese and US press reported poor working conditions in an
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in Brazil; while in the Czech Republic, it inherited an agreement with an existing trade union.
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Flexible workforces and low profit margins : electronics assembly between Europe and China
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Foxconn CZ s.r.o. (Foxconn Czech Republic) acquired what remained of the former state owned
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through an anonymous voting process to elect up to 18,000 new union committees.
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due to strenuous working conditions. Apple responded by bringing in the
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Chan, J. (2013). "A Suicide Survivor: The Life of a Chinese Worker".
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Foxconn do Brasil (Foxconn Brazil) opened its first plant in 2007 in
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promised to investigate, while Foxconn responded by suing two of the
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The trade union and Foxconn Czech Republic negotiated their first
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Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour
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Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores Metalúrgicos
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Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour
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Index

company union
Foxconn
trade union
Shenzhen
collective agreements
managerial friendly trade unions
collective agreements
democratic trade unions

Foxconn City
Shenzhen
China
ACFTU
http://hhfox.com/portal.php
iPod
Apple
mainland
Shenzhen
All-China Federation of Trade Unions
Longhua Science and Technology Park
Terry Gou
Chinese
Chinese
company union
Foxconn suicides
Foxconn
dozen workers committed suicide
Fair Labor Association
NGO
Economic Policy Institute

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