The company that makes your phone is in trouble again. Apple has put its long-running computer parts contractor, Foxconn, on the run after a factory run by the notorious Taiwanese company accidentally made hundreds of its employees violently ill earlier this month, according to reports.
Hundreds of workers were in need of medical attention after a bad bout of food poisoning at the facility, which is based in India and employs approximately 17,000 people to make the iPhone 12. The incident resulted in 159 people being hospitalized and 250 people being treated as out-patients. Large-scale industrial factories that require long hours and intensive shifts provide on-site lodging and meals to their workers. The meals are not so great.
After learning that hundreds of their co-workers had been poisoned by food made at a company-sponsored canteen, workers at the factory organized a protest and blocked a large interstate highway as part of their demonstration. According to a recent report, the recent incident and poor labor conditions at the factory were related to the recent protests. The protesters were arrested.
The incident forced the factory to shut down for several days and spawned calls to investigate the way in which the factory's workers are treated.
The factory has been placed on "probation" by Apple, meaning that it will remain closed until changes can be made that fix the issues at hand. We asked Apple and Foxconn for comment on the story but did not hear back.
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