WORKERS at the world’s biggest iPhone factory have been filmed attacking cops with metal railings and poles as riots broke out in China. In shocking scenes, police officers with riot shields,…
Such is the desperation to fill the jobs, local authorities have reportedly been urging retired soldiers and government workers to work at the plant.
They hurl metal railings and anything else they can lay their hands on at the cops, who quickly try to escape. "It's now evident that closed-loop production in Foxconn only helps in preventing COVID from spreading to the city, but does nothing for the workers in the factory," Aiden Chau of China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based advocacy group, said in an email.The remarkable unrest follows anger against the country's ultra-strict Covid measuresCredit: Reuters
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