Apple has punished an iPhone factory in India that stopped paying wages to workers. Of course, as usual, Apple punished workers, not factory management. The company has suspended orders going to Taiwanese assembler Wistron, which owns a factory in the Indian state of Karnataka. Such way all workers who started riot could be silently fired and APple will silently resume assembly on all other plants within next 20 days.

The decision came after nearly 1,000 workers ransacked Wistron's factory and offices last week for non-payment of wages.

It is noted that when hiring workers were promised a salary of 21 thousand rupees (286 dollars per month), then the pay dropped to 16 thousand rupees per month (217 dollars), and after - to 12 thousand rupees (163 dollars) and finally stopped at $0 per month. The total damage was about $7 million. The state police arrested 128 people, another 300 were detained for questioning.

Rumors are that we have Tim Cook directly standing behind salary cuts, as his top management team kept pressing Wistron each week for better terms and blackmailed to otherwise cancel all new orders. Cook is known for total respect to money and investors and zero respect to real people, workers and engineers.