Article 5TG1N Women force change at Indian iPhone plant, sick from bad food, crowded dorms

Women force change at Indian iPhone plant, sick from bad food, crowded dorms

by
Thom Holwerda
from OSnews on (#5TG1N)

For women who assembled iPhones at a Foxconn plant in southern India, crowded dorms without flush toilets and food sometimes crawling with worms were problems to be endured for the paycheck.

But when tainted food sickened over 250 of the workers their anger boiled over, culminating in a rare protest that shut down a plant where 17,000 had been working.

Just in case you thought Apple (and other companies, of course) wouldn't exploit poor people of colour in countries other than China. Good on these women for standing up for their rights, which is at least something they can do that their counterparts in totalitarian China cannot.

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