Foxconn is famous for two things: making Apple products and having unhappy staff. A riot at one of its Chinese factories this week was the latest evidence of worker discontent. What goes on behind the doors?
XIAO MA, A 21-year-old from Shanxi working the night shift at Foxconn in Taiyuan, watched last weekend as a row between a young woman working at the factory and a security guard escalated into a full-scale riot.
Dormitory windows were smashed, vehicles burned and thousands of armed police called in as still more people came to join the melee. Dozens were taken to hospital for treatment.
“It was massive. The anger is accumulating here. It’s getting worse,” says Ma. He is hunkered down near a police box across the road from one of the southern gates of the vast facility, which employs 79,000 people. Nearly a million people work for Foxconn in China.
“We are constantly insulted by the leaders of our work units, and we are always being shouted at. The security guards are constantly abusing us,” says Ma, smoking quickly as we speak. Full story...
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