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Hon Hai Fallout Could Include Relocations

Lorraine Luk, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on June 8, 2010 at 12:00 am PT

The recent spate of suicides at a Shenzhen factory of Taiwanese electronics maker Hon Hai Precision Industry, which assembles Apple products, has spurred the company, its Hong Kong listed Foxconn International unit and even some of its rivals like TPV Technology to give salary increases for factory workers in China amid growing concerns about working conditions at their plants.

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Hon Hai Gives Workers a Raise

Ting-I Tsai, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 28, 2010 at 3:15 pm PT

Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has decided to increase wages for its factory workers in China by an average of 20 percent, but the manufacturing giant emphasized the raise isn’t related to a recent spate of employee suicides. Discussions about a wage increase arose because of concerns about a tight supply of workers in the southern industrial city of Shenzhen where Hon Hai employs more than 400,000 staff, and predate the wave of suicides at the company’s giant Longhau factory there, said Hon Hai spokesman Edmund Ding.

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Silicon Valley Tech Workers Earning Less Than in 2000

Cari Tuna, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 3, 2010 at 1:00 am PT

While some of the latest government wage data appears to show that Silicon Valley’s high-tech workers are making more now than they did in 2000, a closer look at the numbers shows that’s not exactly the case.

Internet Advertisers Say Internet Advertising Keeps America Strong

Peter Kafka in Media on June 11, 2009 at 9:08 am PT

Did you know that Internet publishing–Internet publishing supported by advertising, that is–creates millions of jobs in this country? It’s true, says a trade group, which is trying to convince Washington that all that is at risk if people start passing pesky laws.

New York Times Strikes Deal With Boston Globe’s Holdout Union

Peter Kafka in Media on May 6, 2009 at 4:00 am PT

The Boston Globe can keep printing. The New York Times Co., which owns the Globe, has reached an agreement with the Boston Newspaper Guild, the paper’s lone holdout union. A new deal involves pay cuts and “modifications to the lifetime job guarantee provisions,” but will allow the paper to stay afloat, for now.