Written by Johnson TA | Bangalore | Updated: December 24, 2020 7:19:19 am Men wearing protective masks walk past the broken windows of a facility run by Wistron Corp, a Taiwanese Apple maker, in Narsapura, near Bangalore, India, on December 14, 2020 (Reuters Photo). Worker unrest after failure to repair …
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Written by Aashish Aryan, edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 21, 2020 10:28:34 am Like Apple’s other contract manufacturers, Wistron is also involved in the production of its flagship iPhones. The Narasapura factory is the new unit from where the assembly of the iPhone SE (2020) …
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By: Bloomberg | December 20, 2020 10:56:32 am Men wearing protective masks walk past the broken windows of a facility run by Wistron Corp, a Taiwanese Apple maker, in Narsapura, near Bangalore, India, on December 14, 2020 (Reuters). Apple Inc. said it will put a supplier in India on probation …
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BENGALURU: Apple and its Taiwanese contract manufacturer Wistron issued separate statements on Saturday acknowledging that there were lapses in payments to workers at its Narasapura facility near Bengaluru in October and November. The facility, which employs 12,000 people, suffered large-scale violence and destruction of company assets last Saturday. Apple said …
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BENGALURU / NEW DELHI: Apple supplier WistronThe Karnataka factory was unable to cope with the rapidly increasing workforce and violated several laws, a government inspection revealed following violence at the site last weekend. Several thousand subcontracted workers At Wistron he was enraged by alleged non-payment of wages that destroyed property, …
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