In Chengdu, there is one of the factories where Foxconn builds Apple products even during Monday night over 1000 employees of the Asian company fought with the law enforcement in the area where the homes are located. It seems that the problems started after some of the factory employees would not have allowed the law enforcement to arrest an alleged thief. The riots initially involved a small number of people, but soon the number of rioters increased to 1000 and only after the intervention of several hundred policemen was the whole problem solved.
On Monday night a huge riot started at a Chengdu dormitory over a tiny incident. According to Taiwan-based WantChinaTimes, workers with a grudge against the security guards prevented them from catching a thief. Soon up to 1,000 workers were "throwing trash bins, chairs, pots, bottles and fireworks from the upper floor of the building and destroying public facilities." They were restrained after two hours by hundreds of police officers, who arrested dozens of workers.
Of course, until the intervention of the police, the employees threw trash cans, chairs, pans, bottles and fireworks from one of the buildings, but in the end everything ended with the arrest of several dozen people. This is not the first incident in the Foxconn factories and it will certainly not be the last, considering that the working conditions have not improved for now.
