IPhone Factory Workers Clash With Police at Covid-Hit Plant in China - The Wall Street Journal

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HONG KONG—Workers astatine the world’s biggest iPhone assembly works successful China clashed with scores of constabulary officers aft protests erupted astatine the factory, which has been nether Covid-19 lockdowns successful caller weeks.

Videos circulating among workers’ online chat groups connected Tuesday showed chaotic scenes astatine the mill successful Zhengzhou wherever Foxconn Technology Group assembles astir of the world’s latest iPhone models. Police officers successful Covid-protective suits holding agelong shields and wielding batons faced disconnected with workers who threw integrative h2o bottles and pieces of metallic from dismantled barriers, the videos showed.