Posted on 11/23/2022 10:27:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Employees at the world's biggest Apple iPhone factory were beaten and detained in protests over pay amid anti-virus controls, according to witnesses and videos on social media Wednesday, as tensions mount over Chinese efforts to combat a renewed rise in infections.
Videos that said they were filmed at the factory in the central city of Zhengzhou showed thousands of people in masks facing rows of police in white protective suits with plastic riot shields. Police kicked and hit a protester with clubs after he grabbed a metal pole that had been used to strike him.
Frustration with restrictions in areas throughout China that have closed shops and offices and confined millions of people to their homes has boiled over into protests. Videos on social media show residents tearing down barricades set up to enforce neighborhood closures.
The ruling Communist Party promised this month to try to reduce disruptions by shortening quarantines and making other changes. But the party is sticking to a "zero-COVID" strategy that aims to isolate every case while other governments relax controls and try to live with the virus.
Last month, thousands of employees walked out of the iPhone factory operated by Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group over complaints about unsafe working conditions following virus cases.
A protest erupted Tuesday over complaints Foxconn changed conditions for new workers who were attracted by offers of higher pay, according to Li Sanshan, an employee.
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China Restricts Movement Across iPhone City
China’s Zhongzhou, home to Foxconn’s massive iPhone factory, will begin to enforce mobility restrictions across eight districts in main urban areas on Friday. The reason, well, authorities blame it on ‘rising Covid infections,’ though we should note that the new restrictions come as massive unrest has erupted at the factory of more than 200,000 workers.
Zhongzhou authorities posted a statement on its WeChat page on Wednesday about mobility restrictions from Friday through Sunday.
“At present, the epidemic situation in our city is still severe and complicated,” the statement said. Health officials will conduct daily mass PCR tests and request that residents in high-risk areas stay within their homes.
Reading this at an airport bar on my iPhone.
It makes me think. Really makes me think long and hard.
I sure love my iPhone 14 Pro.
Uppity slaves need to learn their place on the plantation?
Video
Violent protests erupt at Apple’s main iPhone plant in China
https://rumble.com/v1wppd8-violent-protests-erupt-at-apples-main-iphone-plant-in-china.html?mref=kkgl3&mrefc=22
and the beatings will continue until moral improves
“We have to construct the world of tomorrow. It’s a systemic transformation of the world. So we have to define how the world should look like which we want to come out of this transformation period. I respect China’s achievements, which are tremendous over the last — over 40 years. I think it’s a role model for many countries, but I think also, we should leave it to each country to make its own decision what system it wants to adopt. And I think we should be very careful in imposing systems. But the Chinese model is certainly a very attractive model for quite a number of countries.” Klaus Schwab
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
Isn’t this a normal day in Commie China?
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