Monday 24 September 2012

2,000 in staff riot at iPhone's Chinese 'sweatshop' factory after 'guard beats up worker'


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A riot involving 2,000 workers broke out at an Apple factory in China, leaving 40 people injured.
More than 5,000 police were reportedly sent to bring the riot at the Foxconn factory in the northern city of Taiyuan in the Shanxi province of China until control after trouble erupted in workers' sleeping quarters yesterday.

Comments on Chinese internet bulletin boards said the trouble may have been sparked by a security guard hitting an employee and not related to the recent anti-Japan protests.
In a statement, the Taiwanese-owned company said: 'A personal dispute between several employees escalated into an incident involving some 2,000 workers at approximately 11pm last night in a privately-managed dormitory.'






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