Arrests as Indian workers ransack iPhone plant over wages

BBC News
Date: Dec 13, 2020
By: Crisbin Joseph Mathew

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image captionState authorities condemned the “wanton” violence at the Wistron plant

Indian police have arrested more than 100 workers who went on a rampage over claims of unpaid wages at a Taiwanese-run iPhone factory near Bangalore.

Footage on social media showed s

mashed CCTV cameras and glass panels, broken lights and a car set on fire at Wistron Infocomm's manufacturing facility.

The workers claim that they have not been fully paid for four months and are being forced to do extra shifts.

Wistron said that it "pledged to follow local labour (laws)".    [FULL  STORY]

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