{"id":17330,"date":"2022-11-23T23:30:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T23:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/11\/23\/china-covid-angry-protests-at-worlds-biggest-iphone-factory\/"},"modified":"2022-11-23T23:30:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T23:30:20","slug":"china-covid-angry-protests-at-worlds-biggest-iphone-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=17330","title":{"rendered":"China Covid: Angry protests at world&#8217;s biggest iPhone factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Footage has emerged on Chinese social media appearing to show protesters clashing with police in hazmat suits at a factory in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Some people appear to be hurt in the videos, which took place outside the world&#8217;s biggest iPhone factory. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">One employee who recently started working at the plant has told the BBC workers were protesting because Foxconn had &#8220;changed the contract they promised&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Manufacturer Foxconn said it would work with staff and local government to prevent further violence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In its statement, the firm said some workers had doubts about pay but that the firm would fulfil pay based on contracts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">It also described as &#8220;patently untrue&#8221; rumours that new recruits were being asked to share dormitories with workers who were Covid-positive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Read more on the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-63725812\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-63735405?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Footage has emerged on Chinese social media appearing to show protesters clashing with police in hazmat suits at a factory in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou. Some people appear &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}