Mass Brawl Closes Foxconn Plant

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Chinese state media reported Monday on a mass brawl among up to 2,000 workers at a Foxconn plant in Taiyuan, in Shanxi province.

Foxconn’s Taiwanese parent company Hon Hai said in a statement that the incident began “as a personal dispute between several employees” in a privately managed dormitory for workers at the plant.

However, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency said the melee broke out between workers from two different Chinese provinces and attracted more than 10,000 spectators. Some 5,000 policemen were sent to the scene.

Postings on the Weibo microblog claimed that the Taiyuan brawl was between factory security guards and workers.

A Taiyuan city government official said the unrest had “quietened down” and confirmed Hon Hai statements that it was not work-related. The factory is to be closed for one day for an investigation.

Foxconn is the world’s largest maker of computer components. It assembles products for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), Sony Corp. (NYSE: SNE) and Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK), among others. The company has been in the spotlight after at least 13 Foxconn employees in China died in apparent suicides, which activists blamed on tough working conditions. The deaths prompted calls for better treatment of staff.

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Trey has been an editor and author at 24/7 Wall St. for more than a decade, where he has published thousands of articles analyzing corporate earnings, dividend stocks, short interest, insider buying, private equity, and market trends. His comprehensive coverage spans the full spectrum of financial markets, from blue-chip stalwarts to emerging growth companies.

Beyond 24/7 Wall St., Trey has created and edited financial content for Benzinga and AOL's BloggingStocks, contributing additional hundreds of articles to the investment community. He previously oversaw the 24/7 Climate Insights site, managing editorial operations and content strategy, and currently oversees and creates content for My Investing News.

Trey's editorial expertise extends across multiple publishing environments. He served as production editor at Dearborn Financial Publishing and development editor at Kaplan, where he helped shape financial education materials. Earlier in his career, he worked as a writer-producer at SVE. His freelance editing portfolio includes work for prestigious clients such as Sage Publications, Rand McNally, the Institute for Supply Management, the American Library Association, Eggplant Literary Productions, and Spiegel.

Outside of financial journalism, Trey writes fiction and has been an active member of the writing community for years, overseeing a long-running critique group and moderating workshop sessions at regional conventions. He lives with his family in an old house in the Midwest.

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