The protest erupted on Tuesday night over the terms of the new hires' payment packages and COVID-related concerns about their living conditions.
Foxconn has offered to pay newly recruited workers 10,000 yuan to quit and leave the world's largest iPhone assembly factory, in an attempt to quell
The protest largely tailed off around 10 p.m. on Wednesday as workers returned to their dormitories, having received Foxconn's payment offer and fearing a harsher crackdown by authorities, a witness told CNN. "The new recruits had to work more days to get the bonus they were promised, so they felt cheated," the worker told CNN.
Apple, for which Foxconn manufactures a range of products, told CNN Business that its employees were on the ground at the Zhengzhou facility. Zhengzhou is set to impose a five-day lockdown in its urban districts, which include the train station, starting from midnight Friday, authorities had announced earlier.The protest started outside the workers' dormitories on the sprawling Foxconn campus on Tuesday night, with hundreds marching and chanting slogans including "Down with Foxconn," according to social media videos and a witness account.
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