Big Labor Is a Big Barrier to Apple’s India Ambitions | EUROtoday

India is entrance and heart of Apple’s plans to diversify manufacturing away from China. But shaky infrastructure isn’t the one impediment. There is one other essential complicating issue: a strong and impartial labor motion.

That is a serious distinction from China the place, for higher or worse, labor unions don’t exist as a political pressure impartial of the ruling Communist Party. And with India’s contentious common elections arising in early 2024, nascent labor reforms which are essential to Apple’s plans might get caught up within the political crossfire.