Violence as striking workers riot at iPhone manufacturing plant near Bangalore in India
Bangalore 13th December 2020: An iPhone manufacturing plant, run by Taiwan-based tech giant Wistron Corporation at Narsapura (around 60 km from Bengaluru in Southern India) came under attack from workers on Saturday. Workers at Wistron's iPhone plant at Narsapura destroyed and damaged factory property during a riot to protest exploitation and withheld wages. Local Police arrested around 100 workers after they violently protested against their allegedly exploitative working conditions at a Taiwanese-owned iPhone factory in southern India. Footage circulating on Indian social media shows workers furiously smashing glass panels, flipping and torching cars, as well as destroying CCTV cameras, light fixtures, and ceiling fans. A majority of the nearly 2,000 employees, who were exiting the facility after completing their night-shift, went on a rampage destroying the company’s furniture, assembly units and even attempted to set fire to vehicles. Senior police officers along with additio