Workers at one of Apple’s three iPhone assembly plant rioted on Saturday evening over unpaid wages.
Local media report that around 2,000 staff protested at not having been properly paid for months, and that iPhones may have been looted and the factory damaged.
The factory only opened in August 2020 and is thought to assemble the iPhone SE and iPhone 12, mostly for export consumption as Apple’s highly-priced products have tiny market share in India.
Apple outsources Indian iPhone assembly to Taiwanese company Wistron, which in turn outsourced recruitment and payroll to Indian companies. The Indian companies stand accused of not paying staff promptly or properly for several months. Wistron’s plant is near the city of Bengaluru, a tech hub in which the cost of living is high by Indian standards.
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