Foxconn plant in China closed after 2,000 workers get in brawl over dispute
Monday, September 24, 2012 at 8:18AM
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A huge brawl involving 2,000 factory workers has forced the closure of a Foxconn plant in Taiyuan, China. The brawl was an escalation over a dispute between how workers were treated. Foxconn is one of the more prominent factories that manufacture products for various technology companies. The Taiyuan factory has 79,000 workers and is said to be the plant where the iPhone 5 is being manufactured.

Foxconn is the biggest contract factory of electronic goods, in China it employs a total of about 1 million workers.

Source: Toronto Sun

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