Foxconn halts production at plant after mass brawl

[marmar]

from BBC News:



Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology, a major supplier for Apple, has halted production at a plant in northern China after a fight broke out among workers.

Foxconn confirmed that a "personal dispute" escalated into an incident involving about 2,000 workers, injuring 40 of them.

Police later dealt with the situation near the facility in Taiyuan, which employs about 79,000 workers.

Foxconn has previously been accused of having poor conditions for its workers. ...................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19697344

[lunatica]

1. Thanks for posting this

I'm glad the peasants are rising up. It's time.

[Scuba]

2. +1

[A HERETIC I AM]

4. This doesn't read like it was an uprising....

So much as just an argument that got way out of hand.

It apparently wasn't directed at the company at all

[redqueen]

5. Yeah, an argument between 2,000 people.

Even if you do believe every self serving lie from the Chinese media, just reading the article would tell you it was most likely a response to security guards severely beating a worker.

[A HERETIC I AM]

6. The article linked in the OP is from the BBC

And again, if it is the result of a security guard beating a worker, then it STILL isn't as if there was a major walkout or that it is some sort of worker uprising against Foxconn.

Seems to me to be more akin to rival soccer fans going at it.

[redqueen]

7. "it's just an argument" is from Chinese official sources. nt

[lunatica]

8. It was probably deplorable working conditions which even Romney has

described, albeit he described them in glowing terms. Do you really think it was something as shallow as the outcome of a football game? In China where the people have been historically forced to be subservient and obedient to authority?

I sure don't. The workers had to have known they would be disciplined.

[Robb]

10. "As shallow as the outcome of a football game."

You know, outside of the US, them's fightin' words.

[lunatica]

11. I know they are and I promise never to say them at a soccer game in Europe!

[Robb]

12. Or South/Central America.

[lunatica]

15. OH Definitely! Cross my heart!

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. Look, I wrote what I wrote because I actually ...

Read the fucking article linked in the OP which states that it was between groups from two different provinces.

It constantly amazes me on this website that if someone doesn't wholeheartedly agree with a particular perspective, then it is assumed their point of view comes from completely the other side.

I am no expert on Chinese culture, not by a long shot, nor am I a fan of Foxconn and what I have read about them. But my first response in this sub-thread was to the statement that the workers were "rising up". After reading the article, and as I said above, this seems to me to be less about workers rising up against Foxconn and
More about some other rivalry.

OK? Or am I not allowed to voice an opinion based on my reading of an article?

[RandiFan1290]

3. They were fighting to get in!

They want those great jobs!

[lunatica]

9. Yup!

The rabble want to force their way into the factories for the great jobs!

[dembotoz]

14. awwwww poor little apple fans gonna have to wait an extra day for the new i phone?

oh the humanity

[jsr]

16. Minor scuffle over Apple Maps vs. Google Maps