Riot breaks out at Foxconn's Taiyuan plant, reportedly over guards beating up a worker

News just came in that workers at Foxconn's Taiyuan plant have started a riot in the wee hours in China, and that police forces are on site to control the crowd. While the motive isn't clear, Sina Weibo user Li Tian reports that the riot isn't related to the recent anti-Japan protests, though judging by his photos, much damage has been done in the process. The same site suffered from a strike back in March over salary dispute -- the front-line workers failed to receive the promised pay rise. On a similar note, Foxconn's Chengdu plant also had a riot in June, but that was apparently due to an argument between some workers and a local restaurant owner.

Update: We are seeing unofficial reports claiming the "2,000-people" riot was triggered by security guards hitting a worker at 10pm local time.

Update 2: According to a provincial website, Foxconn's Taiyuan industrial park focuses on magnesium alloy components for consumer electronics, heat conduction products, LED lighting products, mobile phone products and magnesium alloy automotive components.

Update 3: An undercover report from August mentioned that the Taiyuan plant processed the back casing of the iPhone 5. It also highlighted the company's harsh management as well as "practically compulsory" over-time work. We don't doubt that this riot escalated due to dissatisfaction over working conditions.

Source: Riot breaks out at Foxconn's Taiyuan plant, reportedly over guards beating up a worker -- Engadget

iPhone 5 is causing so much problems [pic]

they treat their employees so bad that they are committing [rip]...they even installed anti [rip] nets!!!!

im surprised that these people haven't rioted more often. Glad to see people fighting for their rights!

[rip] net....

How long before Apple blames iOS 6 maps failures on the Foxxcon workers? [pic]



























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What the !! [pic]

why are people so shocked !! like is happening....its happened here a 100 yrs ago when people were running factories like slave drivers wtf u think we have all these stringent labor laws....its only a matter of time that places that work their employees like this will have similar violent uprising like we had especially when people have family that come to america to work and see how they get treated..people are gonna be like !! leaving my country i want it like America where i'm at and thats when the trouble with all these highly outsourced jobs is gonna start up

Is a riot a sign of democracy or just some bs?

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People forget that Americans literally fought and literally DIED for the right to unionize, so !! like this wouldn't happen. And some repubs wanna do away with unions [pic]