Hundreds of workers protest Apple’s largest factory in China

Employees of the Foxconn factory, a Taiwanese company that supplies the American Apple and is one of the main assemblers of the iPhone, They left their residences early in the morning, past the guards in PPE suits, It has been banned in China, according to videos that have been reproduced on platforms like Twitter.

Some of the guards beat the workers as crowds of people tried to break through the barricades and wages protested the accumulation of food or garbage during the lockdown.

In October, images of workers jumping over the factory fence with their belongings and going on foot to the place they came from on foot caused the anger of Chinese netizens as public transportation in the city was partially stopped.

Shortly before the dismissal of employeesThe company denied rumors that 20,000 of the approximately 350,000 workers at the factory were infected with covid.

Following the workers’ escape, Foxconn announced an increase in daily wages to attract employees and bonuses for those who leave to return.

According to local media, the factory needs to hire around 10,000 workers to normalize the production chain.

Then the workers were told. they had to stay in quarantine for a week in hotelsand only then, and after a negative result in several PCR tests, they can enter the facilities.

Since 2020, major factories in China, such as Foxconn’s in Zhengzhou, have responded to nearby outbreaks by establishing a “closed loop” that isolates workers at the facilities for extended periods of time to prevent transmission from abroad and resume production. caused protests due to poor sanitation or lack of food.

China remains committed to ‘zero covid’ policyconsists of the isolation of all infected persons and their close contacts, strict border controls, movement restrictions, and large PCR testing campaigns wherever a case is detected.