Apple puts another supplier on probation after exploited workers smashed up a building
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge For the second time in two months, Apple is putting one of the companies it hires to build the iPhone on notice for violating labor laws. Reuters, Bloomberg and others are reporting that Apple has put Taiwanese manufacturing giant Wistron on probation" - meaning it won't receive any new business from Apple until it sorts things out - after the supplier was found exploiting workers at a plant in India.
The reason we're hearing about this at all is rather incredible: on December 12th, some 2,000 workers decided to protest unpaid wages by rioting at one of Wistron's offices, smashing up the lobby and overturning vehicles. There's video:
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