factory workers

The Bleak Existence Of The Factory Workers Behind Your iPhone. A U.S.-based labor watchdog group says it has uncovered ...
Oregonian

She was a key voice of the 1990s labor movement in Nike’s Indonesia factories. Today she relies on donations from abroad

Once a month, American labor activist Jim Keady logs into Remitly, an app for transferring money abroad, at his New Jersey home and sends $100 to a former Nike factory worker in Indonesia. Cicih ...
AOL

9 vintage photos that show what factory work in America was really like

We often romanticize the American industrial era—the “Arsenal of Democracy,” the sheer scale of production, and the promised opportunity. But for the millions of men and women who clocked in daily, ...
Business Insider

I went from factory worker to software engineer after 3D-printing a fix that impressed my boss. Here's my top tip for getting promoted.

Justin Flint, 27, dropped out of college in 2019 and took a job at a factory. After inventing a fix while employed on the assembly line, he was promoted to software developer. Now, Flint works as a ...
Oregonian

Nike says its factory workers make nearly double the minimum wage. In Indonesia, workers say, ‘It’s not true’

Through boom times and, more recently, slumping sales, Nike Inc. has stuck by a key claim about its overseas suppliers: They pay the average factory worker about twice the local minimum wage. It’s a ...
Autoblog

BMW’s New Factory Workers Aren’t Human

Inside the Leipzig plant, humanoid robots will learn real production tasks as BMW experiments with a new era of AI-assisted manufacturing. BMW to test humanoid robots in real production at its Leipzig ...