Foxconn posts guards around workers in Taiyuan plant, report says

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Foxconn's 79,000 workers at the Taiyuan production facility are under the supervision of heavily protected guards, according to a new report.

Security guards working at the facility in the Shanxi province in northern China are wearing riot helmets and holding plastic shields as they march around the plant, Bloomberg is reporting. The workers, meanwhile, are producing products.

"The guards here use gangster style to manage," Fang Zhongyang, a Foxconn employee, told Bloomberg in an interview. "We are not against following rules but you have to tell us why. They won't explain things and we feel like we cannot communicate with them."

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