Thursday, June 7th 2012
Workers Riot at Foxconn Chengdu iPhone/iPad Plant
If televised visits by Apple's top-brass to Foxconn's manufacturing facilities, and commitments to improve working conditions were mere PR exercises meant to cover up the issue of dismal working conditions, they failed. About 1,000 workers at Foxconn's manufacturing facility at Chengdu rioted on a large scale, which took the police several hours to subdue. According to media reports, the riot started when the facility guards were trying to stop a thief, while other workers who held grudges against the guards prevented them from catching the thief. Soon, the situation went out of control, as 1,000 workers started a riot. The workers were seen chucking pots, pans, garbage, and even fireworks from their dormitory windows. Public facilities sustained damage, the police made several arrests. The episode reveals that worker-management relations, at least at the Chengdu plant, which manufactures a massive amount of iPhone and iPad products for Apple, are at a breaking point.
Sources:
WantChinaTimes, VR-Zone
107 Comments on Workers Riot at Foxconn Chengdu iPhone/iPad Plant
Money some say is the root of all evil today...
If no one else is gonna help them then why not kick some ass until conditions improve.
If he was holding a sledge hammer. I doubt any one of the staff would wanna fuck with him let alone riot for fear of getting a sledge hammer to the face!! but then again the first way to stop a uprising is by killing it and i guess thats where their glorious leaderdictatorboss forgot to call in backup and crowd control that shit till shit calmed down and made the workers fall back in line and sit the fuck down like the opressed people they are.
but i digress....China has always had issues with
slave labourbad working conditions.Either Apple or the other big firms they are contracted with dont pay the company enough to pay its staff a decent wage or the company bosses are greedy arseholes who go home and swim in a pool at night......
In any case companies who contract work to them are in a position of power and should demand that the company improve working conditions for the staff or risk losing the contract......Sadly this aint a perfect world.
corporate scumbags would be less of a scumbag to care a little more about who is building their goods.
A happy worker always works better then one who is less satisfied with his work conditions.
you could argue that oppressing them also makes them work harder as they fear an ass kicking if the managers/line managers etc etc think that potential individual isnt working hard enough but that doesnt count.
jobs are so hard to come by in china given the huge population, and people have no choice but to live with it.
there many problems that couldnt solve they ground it then when something small happen they gonna burn
if words can do nutting, words aint need anymore
though directors/bosses/managers of Foxconn are equally as guilty for not negotiating with Apple for more money so staff can be better paid and have better working conditions instead of being treated like stray dogs who have just swam half a mile up a sewer pipe full of runny human excrement
though apple would probably use it as a reason to increase prices. Im sure if the rest of the world knew the kind of conditions the factory workers have to live and work through, they'd think twice about buying another apple product.
and right ON foxconn employees, maybe this will make some waves, probably not though.
I don't own a single device made by them, nor do I desire one to be honest.