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MANKATO, MN – Winland Electronics reported second-quarter net sales fell 15% from last year to $6.9 million amid lower demand from two of its three largest customers. For the period ended June 30, the net loss was $800,000, versus a net loss of $500,000 in 2007.
FRANKFURT -- A leading German workers union will ask for pay hikes of more than 6.5% in the next round of contract talks, the union chairman Berthold Huber told a local newspaper.
The two-year contract signed by IG Metall, a union that represents three million metal and electronics workers, expires in October. The union is to expected to declare its wage demands next month, according to published reports.
In the contract signed in 2006, IG Metall negotiated a two-phase hike of 4.1% and 1.7%.
PARDUBICE, EAST BOHEMIA -- A local tuberculosis outbreak is affecting workers at Foxconn's plant here, according to reports in local papers.
Three more cases of TB infection were reported late last week, bringing to nine the total number of infected Foxconn workers. In all, 29 cases of TB have been reported in the Pardubice region since the beginning of the year, the report said.
Three more cases of TB infection were reported late last week, bringing to nine the total number of infected Foxconn workers. In all, 29 cases of TB have been reported in the Pardubice region since the beginning of the year, the report said.
The infected Foxconn employees are Mongolians, according to the report. Two are afflicted with open TB. Some of the workers are said to have shared living quarters.
TB starts as a small infection in the lung, but can spread to other parts of the body and can cause illness or death if left untreated. Active (open) TB is a highly infectious form of the disease.
The region typically reports about 50 cases of TB annually," officials said.
In response, Foxconn is reportedly toughening its admission checkups for foreign employees.
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