Foxconn operates factories in several Chinese cities, including this one in Shenzhen.
(Credit: Jay Greene/CNET)
Foxconn Technology Group, the Taiwanese contract manufacturer that assembles products for Apple and several other tech giants, acknowledged a "workplace issue" at a factory in Fengcheng, China, run by one of its suppliers, Jiangxi Xin Hai Yang Precision Components Co.
A Hong Kong watchdog group -- Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour, or SACOM -- called it a strike of more than 1,000 workers who took to the streets to demand better pay and dignity. While Foxconn did not disclose the products or components made at the factory, a Sacom representative said she believes workers there produce iPhone connectors as well as components for other brands.
Sacom said the dispute began Thursday and continued into Friday, when workers blocked a main road near the factory. The group said that "riot police" intervened, using a water cannon as well as physical violence to suppress workers.
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by Jay Greene via CNET
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