Chinese Cosmic Comedy...Workers of the World Unite...You Must Become Robots For The State...

[Selene]

I find it fascinating that the left in America takes no notice of this...it seems like the "hipsters" just want their I Phone 5 and refuse to see where and how it is made...

Seems like a modern Technological Jungle, similar to Upton Sinclair's 1906 original which, Jack London called, "the Uncle Tom's Cabin of wage slavery."

BEIJING—A fight at a northern Chinese factory campus owned by major Apple Inc. supplier Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. escalated into larger-scale unrest early Monday, according to the company and local police.

Reuters

Workers clean up glass shards from the broken windows of a security room near an entrance of a Foxconn Tech-Industry Park in Taiyuan, Shanxi province on Monday.

A spokesman for Hon Hai's Foxconn Technology Group arm said the situation was "under control," but added that the plant would be shut for Monday. "Our decision is to take a day off for that particular plant today," said the spokesman, Louis Woo.

An investigation into the cause of the riots, which left 10 injured, is being carried out, according to a report from China's state-run Xinhua news agency. A local Public Security Bureau officer confirmed that there were "problems" at the plant overnight and that the police were dealing with the situation.

Mr. Woo wouldn't say how many people were involved, but workers at the plant contacted over the Internet estimated several hundred to several thousand employees were involved.

The plant, located in Taiyuan in China's Shanxi province, employs 79,000 workers, Mr. Woo said. It produces electronic components for automobiles and consumer electronic components as well as moldings. It wasn't immediately clear which customers' products are made at the plant.

Hon Hai is a major contractor for Apple and other electronics companies. The plant is one of more than 20 manufacturing facilities around China.

Hon Hai has been under a microscope by labor groups for its work practices. The company has defended its conduct, but earlier this year it agreed to change its labor practices after an outside audit of its Chinese factories found widespread breaches of work rules, including 60-hour workweeks and other health and safety violations.

Apple declined to comment and referred questions to Foxconn.

Mr. Woo said a fight between two different work groups in a dormitory eventually spread into greater unrest at the factory. He wouldn't elaborate on the amount of damage at the plant, but photos spreading around Chinese microblogs Monday morning showed smashed store windows, an overturned car and riot police.

Reuters

A Foxconn building in China.

A worker at the factory contacted directly through Sina Corp.'s Weibo microblogging service said the main violence broke out at the southern gate of the campus, where motorcycles were burned and store windows were smashed around midnight. By 1 a.m. he said, paramilitary and other special police forces had arrived.

—Yang Jie in Shanghai and

Ian Sherr in San Francisco contributed to this article.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444180004578015170427352146.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_tech

[BaalChatzaf]

Are you saying they have a chink in their armor?

Ba'al Chatzaf

[Selene]

Are you saying they have a chink in their armor?

Ba'al Chatzaf

Maybe a different slant on life?