Huge Foxconn iPhone plant in China rocked by fresh worker unrest

Employees at the world's biggest Apple iPhone factory in Central China protest over contract disputes amid anti-virus controls on Wednesday Nov 23, 2022

Hundreds of workers joined protests at Foxconn's flagship iPhone plant in China, with some men smashing surveillance cameras and windows, footage uploaded on social media showed.

The rare scenes of open dissent in China mark an escalation of unrest at the massive factory in Zhengzhou city that has come to symbolise a dangerous build-up in frustration with the country's ultra-harsh Covid rules as well as inept handling of the situation by the world's largest contract manufacturer.