{"id":670854,"date":"2010-02-20T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002372"},"modified":"2010-02-20T21:12:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T02:12:11","slug":"foxconn-workers-in-mexico-revolt-set-factory-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/670854","title":{"rendered":"Foxconn Workers In Mexico Revolt, Set Factory On Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/foxconn_logo-thumb-158x40-37240.gif?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Gizmodo reports, based on <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5476446\/foxconn-workers-dont-get-mad-they-get-even-by-burning-their-factory-down\">a story<\/a> in the subscription-only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elnorte.com\/estados\/articulo\/545\/1088243\/\">El Norte<\/a>, that workers in a Foxconn factory in Juarez, Mexico became enraged and <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5476446\/foxconn-workers-dont-get-mad-they-get-even-by-burning-their-factory-down\">set the building on fire.<\/a> Supervisors had misled the workers into working unpaid overtime. A delightful follow-up to the Reuters report about a Foxconn security guard <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/02\/your-iphone-comes-from-a-towering-fortress-of-secrecy.html\">threatening a foreign reporter<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5476446\/foxconn-workers-dont-get-mad-they-get-even-by-burning-their-factory-down\">Gizmodo<\/a>]<em> (Thanks, GitEmSteveDave!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmodo reports, based on a story in the subscription-only El Norte, that workers in a Foxconn factory in Juarez, Mexico became enraged and set the building on fire. Supervisors had misled the workers into working unpaid overtime. A delightful follow-up to the Reuters report about a Foxconn security guard threatening a foreign reporter. [Gizmodo] (Thanks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Owe","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}