Foxconn Technology, the Taiwanese electronics maker typically linked with Apple products and workers’ rights violations, said it closed a Chinese plant Monday following a fight between factory employees. Foxconn said that several people from the Taiyuan plant, which employs nearly 80,000 people, were hospitalized and detained by police after what was described as a riot. Photographs and video making the rounds on Chinese social media show riot police, busted windows and large groups of workers milling about.
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Apple Supplier Foxconn Shuts Plant After Workers Riot
Posted by: David Vranicar September 24, 2012 09:02 AMFoxconn Technology, the Taiwanese electronics maker typically linked with Apple products and workers’ rights violations, said it closed a Chinese plant Monday following a fight between factory employees. Foxconn said that several people from the Taiyuan plant, which employs nearly 80,000 people, were hospitalized and detained by police after what was described as a riot. Photographs and video making the rounds on Chinese social media show riot police, busted windows and large groups of workers milling about.