Riot Breaks Out at Foxconn's iPhone 5 Casing Factory
Police called to break up riot at Taiyuan plant.
A Foxconn plant has been closed following a riot that apparently took place at the facility late on Sunday. Engadget reports that the incident went down at the Taiyuan plant, the same site as the March salary strike that saw staff stop working and demand a pay raise.
The reason for the riot is not immediately clear. Engadget points to unofficial news reports that say the whole thing was started as a result of security guards hitting a worker at 10 p.m. Sunday. Indeed, Reuters cites an unconfirmed report on Sina Weibo that claims four or five guards beat a worker 'almost to death'. Another post claims guards beat up two workers from Henan province. However, despite these reports, Foxconn told Reuters in a statement that the incident that triggered the riot involved only employees. Foxconn said it was a result of a personal dispute between employees. What's more, the component manufacturer said the dispute was not work-related. A senior official from the Taiyuan city government is quoted by the Xinhua news agency as saying employees from Shandong Province clashed with staff from Henan Province and sparked the riot.
Whatever the reason, it was enough to close the plant down. Reports indicate that 5,000 police were on site to break up the mayhem. Though Foxconn hasn't said how long the plant will stay closed, an employee told Reuters that the company would be closed for up to three days. The Taiyuan plant employs almost 80,000 people.

-Steve Jobs
-An Apple Consumer
First the Maps mishap, now this...
Wondering if this too will cause Apple stock to go up.
Nothing surprises me at this stage when it comes to Apple.
First the Maps mishap, now this...
Wondering if this too will cause Apple stock to go up.
Nothing surprises me at this stage when it comes to Apple.
-An Apple Consumer
-Steve Jobs
Of course; security guards are employees, as well. Nice try there, but failed.
it would seem that riots are just a "feature" of Apples high profit margins
/disowned family and friends that use Apple products.
How pathetic has our world become?
It is what ever YOU and I allow it to be...
Forced labor, horrible living and working conditions, ... I don't want to purchase a product base on that.
But Apple, like other big companies won't bother, to them china is just a land of cheap human over-working slave machines!!
Seems more like the iPhone 5 is a Foxconn Employee killer...
You'd need to not buy anything from Apple, HP, Microsoft, Samsung, Dell, IBM, Logitech, Panasonic, Sony, Mazda, Honda, Ford, and most out global brands.
In the age of globalization, everything is manufactured by massive outsourcing vanilla companies.
-SK
i don't buy anything from those brands... was that so hard??
or is slave labor okay just because everybody is doing it?
Most factories and office buildings have guards. Even in the US.