Workers at Wistron iPhone plant in India riot over unfair pay

[Joe White]

What just happened? Workers at an iPhone production facility in India are said to have engaged in a mass riot on Saturday, damaging furniture, assembly units, and vehicles. According to early reports, employees at the plant – which is operated by Apple's assembly partner Wistron – claim that they are not being paid the wages which they were originally promised.

The plant in question is based in Narasapura and is operated by Wistron, a Taiwan-based company which manufactures iPhones at the facility. A significant majority of the plant’s 2,000 workers are said to have engaged in the mass riot, which involved destroying assembly units and setting fire to vehicles.

The cause of the dispute, according to The Times of India, is pay – the bottom line being that employees aren’t being paid what they were told they’d receive.

Karnataka: #Violence at iPhone production plant run by Taiwan-based #Wistron Corp at Narasapura (in Kolar district) near #Bengaluru.

Employees allege they have not been paid properly. pic.twitter.com/GKbeFeyRKc

— TOI Bengaluru (@TOIBengaluru) December 12, 2020

An unnamed employee explained: “While an engineering graduate was promised Rs 21,000 per month, his/her salary had reduced to Rs 16,000 and, subsequently, to Rs 12,000 in the recent months. Non-engineering graduates’ monthly salary had reduced to Rs 8,000. The salary amount being credited to our accounts have been reducing and it was frustrating to see this.”

Videos depicting rioting workers destroying Wistron property have been surfacing online. Although it’s not known if anyone has been injured or attacked during the riot, employees are said to have attacked the offices of senior executives. As of writing, neither Wistron nor Apple have commented on the situation.

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[QuantumPhysics]

Indians must be learning from watching Seattle and Portland on TV.

I'm sure the PRC is happy they completely censor Television.

 

[p51d007]

Indians must be learning from watching Seattle and Portland on TV.

I'm sure the PRC is happy they completely censor Television.

Exactly! They can protest, riot, strike in pretty much any country...EXCEPT communist China.
CHEAP slave labor, is why so many things come from China obviously.

 

[JKnight]

Welcome to doing business in India.

 

[psycros]

I hope Apple doesn't flee to TX like the smart tech firms. I want to watch them go down with the communist ship.

 

[seeprime]

Cutting worker pay by over 1/3, without any notice or reason, is grounds for at least a strike. Wistron really screwed up by being supremely greedy.

 

[Squid Surprise]

I feel we should all weigh in here bashing Apple without knowing any of the information.... yep... let's get on that

 

[kimo1]

Look at all the happiness inducing jobs you are making possible by purchasing an Apple product.

 

[Bullwinkle M]

Totally Justified!

I want to see more of this

4-Billion Thumbs Up!

 

[cliffordcooley]

I feel we should all weigh in here bashing Apple without knowing any of the information.... yep... let's get on that

Seriously! What else do we need to know? I've known for decades enough details to bash Apple. This story (among many others) cements my accusations.

 

[Endymio]

Seriously! What else do we need to know?

How about answers to the following two questions:

a) Were the workers actually treated unfairly? I.e. were wages reduced without fair warning and reason?
b) Assuming (a), was Apple even aware of the situation?

In a society of law, we don't just pick up a pitchfork and torch at the first allegation of wrongdoing. A more sober, measured approach is best for all involved.

 

[Amamoh]

How about answers to the following two questions:

a) Were the workers actually treated unfairly? I.e. were wages reduced without fair warning and reason?
b) Assuming (a), was Apple even aware of the situation?

In a society of law, we don't just pick up a pitchfork and torch at the first allegation of wrongdoing. A more sober, measured approach is best for all involved.

If we would pick up a pitchfork and torch at the first allegation of wrongdoing, there would not be any wrongdoers

 

[Bullwinkle M]

In a society of law, we don't just pick up a pitchfork and torch at the first allegation of wrongdoing. A more sober, measured approach is best for all involved.

That's funny

It might work in India (not sure) but it definitely doesn't work in the U.S.

In the U.S., the "Law" is irrelevant due to the fact that it is administered by Criminals who ignore the evidence as well as the "Law" and protect Co-Conspirators

That's why we had 911

 

[bexwhitt]

I hope Apple doesn't flee to TX like the smart tech firms. I want to watch them go down with the communist ship.

The traitor State of Texas can POAD the sooner Texas goes blue the better

 

[cliffordcooley]

The traitor State of Texas can POAD the sooner Texas goes blue the better

If there is a traitor state. It is California and New York. They're the ones going against the flow of all the other states in just about everything.

 

[bexwhitt]

If there is a traitor state. It is California and New York. They're the ones going against the flow of all the other states in just about everything.

Trump lost deal with it.

 

[Bamda]

Welcome to doing business in India.

Let me correct you. "Welcome to doing business with Apple."

 

[Endymio]

Let me correct you. "Welcome to doing business with Apple."

Wistron is not Apple. Wouldn't you prefer to judge the situation logically, rather than emotionally? I would bet anything that, of the many hundreds of items you have in your own home now, you likely know little to nothing about the labor practices of the companies who produced them. And yet you bought them anyway ... are you not therefore as culpable as them?

 

[Danny101]

Seems like bad strategy to me. Couldn't they just walk out and went on strike and try to work out an agreement? Not saying they didn't try. It say in the article. But it seems they just got angry and went apeshit. The company, based on the article, were clearly wrong. I didn't know Apple had a store in N. Korea.