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Lars77

(3,032 posts)
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 08:44 AM Jan 2012

Hundreds of Foxconn employees threaten suicide

http://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/item/25291-hundreds-of-foxconn/

Between 150 and 300 workers at Foxconn’s Technology Park in Wuhan, China, where parts for the Xbox 360 are reportedly manufactured, have threatened to commit mass suicide to protest working conditions, according to reports.

Want China Times reports about 300 employees at the plant threatened to jump off the top of a building within the technology park over a payment dispute with their boss.

They reportedly asked for a pay rise on 2 January, when their boss told them either to quit their jobs with compensation or keep them without getting extra pay. However, when many of the employees selected the first option, the company cancelled the deal and did not give them the money they were owed, sparking the employee protest.

The mayor of Wuhan was reportedly called to stop the employees from committing suicide and they were eventually persuaded not to do it.

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When the Republicans are trying to lower American living standards to make its workforce competitive with China, this is what they want people to do folks.

Foxconn have now attached large nets around some of its factories to stop workers committing suicide - they´ve had many in the past few years.
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Hundreds of Foxconn employees threaten suicide (Original Post) Lars77 Jan 2012 OP
You have to threaten suicide to get a pay raise. Wow. fasttense Jan 2012 #1
The last wave of Foxconn suicides was a major PR disaster Lars77 Jan 2012 #4
Yeah...it kind of hurts the "brand" when your wageslaves start killing themselves... Ken Burch Jan 2012 #57
But they still didn't get the raise... 1monster Jan 2012 #22
In this case, it's more like "let the cake break their fall". Ken Burch Jan 2012 #58
If the future of America is in the corporatist's hands, we'll be the next China. HughBeaumont Jan 2012 #2
It is Lasher Jan 2012 #13
Too Late Shadowflash Jan 2012 #15
Canada? I thought they were immune from all these shenanigans! MADem Jan 2012 #20
You would have thought.... Shadowflash Jan 2012 #23
Shadowflash is referring to a particularly ugly dispute going on in Ontario right now Posteritatis Jan 2012 #48
Immune? quakerboy Jan 2012 #59
Well, I was being a bit ironic. MADem Jan 2012 #60
Odd. quakerboy Jan 2012 #61
I don't think there are any escape hatches, anymore. MADem Jan 2012 #64
That is just horrific... RevStPatrick Jan 2012 #3
They are overpaid according to our corporate execs... rfranklin Jan 2012 #5
It is absolutely meaningless simply to compare numbers dickthegrouch Jan 2012 #25
Go to Haiti and then talk to me...you will be aghast at what you see... rfranklin Jan 2012 #46
2000 is more in line with the average, but still a little below the average. Suji to Seoul Jan 2012 #34
This is the business model corporitists want to imort into the US. baldguy Jan 2012 #6
This, is the republican dream!!! Wake up, all Americans, this is what they RKP5637 Jan 2012 #7
ah yes...but no. BeHereNow Jan 2012 #28
Yeah, I'm concluding many are pretty lame, moreover, they seem proud of it ... I told RKP5637 Jan 2012 #36
I thought this line was a joke when I first read it maggiesfarmer Jan 2012 #8
They did it before at one of their other factories Mnpaul Jan 2012 #54
Foxconn is humongous Canuckistanian Jan 2012 #55
Am I the only one who thinks its crazy to commit suicide over your job? dkf Jan 2012 #9
Am I the only one who thinks its crazy to commit suicide over your job? AlbertCat Jan 2012 #10
They are slave labor. If they report to the government union (other unions are illegal) Hissyspit Jan 2012 #32
many employees have a portion of their wages go back to their families. madrchsod Jan 2012 #11
We are talking about China. Foxconn workers are basically at the mercy of the corporate overlords think Jan 2012 #14
90o Kuai a month? Suji to Seoul Jan 2012 #33
I have a lot to learn about China and the economic realities there. Thank you for your input think Jan 2012 #38
More to your point the workers know that to protest en masse could be tantamount to suicide as well. think Jan 2012 #17
Given the choice of slavery, starvation in shame or suicide, some people would opt for the latter. Lars77 Jan 2012 #19
There is nothing wrong with them. They are slave labor. Hissyspit Jan 2012 #27
A man collapsed dead last year in that factory after working 34 hours straight. ChadwickHenryWard Jan 2012 #37
Looks to me as though we need a Chinese Charles Dickens to answer these question. nt patrice Jan 2012 #41
Why is it automatically the workers who are at fault? (nt) Posteritatis Jan 2012 #49
When it's the only kind of job you can get Canuckistanian Jan 2012 #56
This is what happens when labor is not allowed to organize duhneece Jan 2012 #12
China practices The Wizard Jan 2012 #16
did anyone listen to this past sunday's "This American Life"? They did a piece on Javaman Jan 2012 #18
Not yet. Thank you for mentioning it. think Jan 2012 #21
I could hug you!!! dixiegrrrrl Jan 2012 #26
Thanks! hootinholler Jan 2012 #51
Yes. It was devastating. EVERYONE who sees this post should click on that link Hissyspit Jan 2012 #30
I heard most of this as well and was shocked Tsiyu Jan 2012 #42
Just listened to the entire show Daphne08 Jan 2012 #53
One of THE BEST shows they've ever done. Links-> paparush Jan 2012 #44
YES! It was fascinating,then shocking, then deeply saddening! FailureToCommunicate Jan 2012 #63
Sadly, this is already here if you are over 40. joanbarnes Jan 2012 #24
Is it the bottom yet? Festivito Jan 2012 #29
Rather common here. No law prevents it so it happens all the time Suji to Seoul Jan 2012 #31
Foxconn and Robots. Fokker Trip Jan 2012 #35
About freaking time. boppers Jan 2012 #67
Buy American! humblebum Jan 2012 #39
Xbox 360? Wondering if anyone will ask John Huntsman about this publicly. nt patrice Jan 2012 #40
But by all means keep investing in the stock market raouldukelives Jan 2012 #43
Suicides - not just for Apple anymore meegbear Jan 2012 #45
Well.. that's certainly a strong poker face.. Corruption Winz Jan 2012 #47
I wonder who buys all that stuff made in China anyway? just1voice Jan 2012 #50
Apple fanboys and girls, too. nt Dreamer Tatum Jan 2012 #62
Their products seem to have declined in quality as well. sofa king Jan 2012 #52
Foxconn CEO, Billionaire Terry Gou, threatens suicide... ChromeFoundry Jan 2012 #65
The people of other countries SnakeEyes Jan 2012 #66
 

fasttense

(17,301 posts)
1. You have to threaten suicide to get a pay raise. Wow.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 08:52 AM
Jan 2012

And this is what the world looks like when you have no real Unions.

I bet our corporate CEOs in the US would have said, "So what, let them die."

HughBeaumont

(24,461 posts)
2. If the future of America is in the corporatist's hands, we'll be the next China.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 08:54 AM
Jan 2012

As in, earning the same as them, but with 2012 American cost of living prices. Yeah, laissez-failists, tell me how THAT'S going to work successfully. I'm all ears.

Bringing us closer together, one inch towards the bottom at a time.

Shadowflash

(1,536 posts)
15. Too Late
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:27 AM
Jan 2012

We are ALREADY the next China.

Caterpiller is threatening Canadian workers and demanding that they cut their pay in half because the workers in an American plant make nearly half as much and they are threatening to move the jobs here to the US if they don't comply.

We are already China and India. It has come full circle.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
20. Canada? I thought they were immune from all these shenanigans!
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:53 AM
Jan 2012

At least that's the way some would have it portrayed....

Posteritatis

(18,807 posts)
48. Shadowflash is referring to a particularly ugly dispute going on in Ontario right now
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 05:34 PM
Jan 2012

The company's enjoying record profits, the top management of course got gigantic raises recently, and they want to eliminate all benefits for their employees while also cutting wages by fifty percent. It's obscene, and most people see it as obscene, but that parody of leadership we call a prime minister is backing the company because that's what the Republicans would do in that situation.

Also, that part of Ontario's pretty frothingly conservative, which would make it more likely that someone would think pulling that kind of stunt is acceptable..

quakerboy

(13,901 posts)
59. Immune?
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:23 PM
Jan 2012

They have a strong conservative government, and a fair bit of their policy is tied to us. How are they going to be immune to the crazy things happening here?

Canada will go as we go, just several years later.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
60. Well, I was being a bit ironic.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:51 PM
Jan 2012

Anytime I've tried to mention that it's not all sunshine and lollipops up that way, I get a talking-to.

quakerboy

(13,901 posts)
61. Odd.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:54 PM
Jan 2012

My wife is a Canadian. Canada was our escape hatch. She is getting a bit depressed about it, actually.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
64. I don't think there are any escape hatches, anymore.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:39 PM
Jan 2012

No need to get depressed, though. Simplify your life, and prioritize that which is truly important--like family and friends.

 

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
5. They are overpaid according to our corporate execs...
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 09:16 AM
Jan 2012

Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap
A Wikileaks post published on The Nation shows that the Obama Administration fought to keep Haitian wages at 31 cents an hour.

(This article was taken down by The Nation due to an embargo, but it was excerpted at Columbia Journalism Review.)

It started when Haiti passed a law two years ago raising its minimum wage to 61 cents an hour. According to an embassy cable:

This infuriated American corporations like Hanes and Levi Strauss that pay Haitians slave wages to sew their clothes. They said they would only fork over a seven-cent-an-hour increase, and they got the State Department involved. The U.S. ambassador put pressure on Haiti’s president, who duly carved out a $3 a day minimum wage for textile companies (the U.S. minimum wage, which itself is very low, works out to $58 a day).


Read more: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-06-03/news/30003110_1_minimum-wage-haitians-garment-workers#ixzz1j9gVe3WK

Foxconn 'suicide factory' raises pay 70pc


Following the latest rise, which will take full effect from October 1, the basic salary for production-line workers at Foxconn’s will have risen from 900 renminbi (£91.30 = $140) per month two weeks ago to 2,000 renminbi (£203 = $355).


“This wage increase has been instituted to safeguard the dignity of workers, accelerate economic transformation…and to rally and sustain the best of our workforce,” Foxconn’s founder and Chairman Terry Gou said in a statement.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/china-business/7807903/Foxconn-suicide-factory-raises-pay-70pc.html

dickthegrouch

(3,151 posts)
25. It is absolutely meaningless simply to compare numbers
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:29 AM
Jan 2012

If you compared numbers inside the US you'd find vast inequities too.
Some countries' cost structure is just not the same as the US. I agree most people in Haiti are poor by any definition, but they can live on a lot less than people in the US can. I am NOT saying they should stay poor. I am saying that it is far more meaningful to compare the length of time it takes to earn a decent meal or a pair of shoes than merely spouting $3/day vs $58/day.

 

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
46. Go to Haiti and then talk to me...you will be aghast at what you see...
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 02:50 PM
Jan 2012

I lived there and saw it firsthand.

As of March 28, 2011--

According to an article released to day, the average price of a gallon of gasoline in Haiti is now $4.65 US

Diesel is $3.77 US per gallon, and Kerosene is not $3.74 per gallon

As of May 1, 2011--

Soaring food prices aren't new in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and heavily dependent on imports. Now those prices are rising again, mirroring global trends, while the cost of gasoline has doubled to $5 a gallon. Haitians are paying more for basic staples than much of Latin America and the Caribbean, an Associated Press survey finds.

More than half of Haiti's 10 million people get by on less than $2 a day and hundreds of thousands are dependent on handouts. Undernourished children are easy to spot by the orange tinge in their hair. "Haitians have less room to increase their expenditures on their food," said Myrta Kaulard, Haiti's country director for the U.N. World Food Program. "This is a serious concern."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-05-01-haiti-food-prices_n.htm

 

Suji to Seoul

(2,035 posts)
34. 2000 is more in line with the average, but still a little below the average.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:50 AM
Jan 2012

900 RMB a month is absolutely deplorable.

 

baldguy

(36,649 posts)
6. This is the business model corporitists want to imort into the US.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 09:21 AM
Jan 2012

This is why Romney is running for President.

BeHereNow

(17,162 posts)
28. ah yes...but no.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:39 AM
Jan 2012

The "oh so special" duh'murikkkans could never imagine
that they are part of a GLOBAL workforce and economy, therefore disposable.
Wake up? Not likely in our lifetimes.
BHN

RKP5637

(67,032 posts)
36. Yeah, I'm concluding many are pretty lame, moreover, they seem proud of it ... I told
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 12:22 PM
Jan 2012

someone the other day the same, nothing much is going to happen in my lifetime, probably, to make things really better ... because too many are asleep at the wheel, and if you try to tell them otherwise, they just stick their heads deeper into the sand.

maggiesfarmer

(297 posts)
8. I thought this line was a joke when I first read it
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 09:25 AM
Jan 2012

"The team recommended ... attaching large nets to the factory to prevent impulsive suicides."
from a linked article here: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/digital-life/item/20424-apple-discovers-91-child-la/

Foxconn is another name for Hon Hai, the biggest manufacturer of consumer electronics in world history. over 900k employees and > $50B in annual sales

Mnpaul

(3,655 posts)
54. They did it before at one of their other factories
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 08:02 PM
Jan 2012

I believe that is the Foxconn factory that builds the stuff for Apple. HP buys their crap as well.

Canuckistanian

(42,290 posts)
55. Foxconn is humongous
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 09:12 PM
Jan 2012

They have MANY more customers than just Apple and HP. They're the powerhouse for any high-tech company who produce electronics in large numbers, from chips to fully assembled smartphones.

I work in high tech and I once heard a manger say "We can't afford NOT to go with these guys (Foxconn)". They do everything from manufacture silicon chips to assembly to full testing.... with package deals that make cost accountants happy. Did I say happy? No, they have orgasms over the price compared to anywhere else in the world.

This is the future of high tech - marvelous gadgets at the price of millions suffering slave wages and working conditions.

 

dkf

(37,305 posts)
9. Am I the only one who thinks its crazy to commit suicide over your job?
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 09:56 AM
Jan 2012

What is wrong with these people that you can have a mass suicide threat? Damn.

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
10. Am I the only one who thinks its crazy to commit suicide over your job?
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:10 AM
Jan 2012

Perhaps they think they'll all come back as butterflies....

Or some other religious nonsense.

(the US is ripe for this kind of stupidity)

Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
32. They are slave labor. If they report to the government union (other unions are illegal)
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:46 AM
Jan 2012

they are put on a list as "troublemakers" and are fired and kept from being employed elsewhere. It is a horrible existence. It doesn't really have anything to do with religion.

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)
11. many employees have a portion of their wages go back to their families.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:16 AM
Jan 2012

in many cases their families rely on these wages to survive. yes it is crazy but it happens here in the usa too.

 

think

(11,641 posts)
14. We are talking about China. Foxconn workers are basically at the mercy of the corporate overlords
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:26 AM
Jan 2012

Last edited Wed Jan 11, 2012, 12:18 PM - Edit history (1)

It is similar to early conditions in industries like mining here in America before we started unions and protecting labor in America.

As for the Foxconn, (fitting name) the suicides have been ongoing for a long time now:

[div class="excerpts"]
IPhone Workers Say `Meaningless' Life Sparks Suicides

By Bloomberg News - Jun 2, 2010 6:58 PM CT

....“Life is meaningless,” said Ah Wei, his fingernails stained black with the dust from the hundreds of mobile phones he has burnished over the course of a 12-hour overnight shift. “Everyday, I repeat the same thing I did yesterday. We get yelled at all the time. It’s very tough around here.”

Conversation on the production line is forbidden, bathroom breaks are kept to 10 minutes every two hours and constant noise from the factory washes past his ear plugs, damaging his hearing, Ah Wei said. The company has rejected three requests for a transfer and his monthly salary of 900 yuan ($132) is too meager to send home to his family, said the 21-year-old, who asked that his real name not be used because he is afraid of his managers.

At least 10 employees at Taipei-based Foxconn have taken their lives this year, half of them in May, according to the company, also known as Hon Hai Group. The deaths have forced billionaire founder Gou to open his factories to outside scrutiny and apologize for not being able to stop the suicides. Gou built his company into the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and now clients from Apple Inc. to Hewlett-Packard Co. are probing the company’s working conditions.....

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-06-02/foxconn-workers-in-china-say-meaningless-life-monotony-spark-suicides.html
[div]

 

Suji to Seoul

(2,035 posts)
33. 90o Kuai a month?
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:49 AM
Jan 2012

The average salary in China is 2900 a month! With the concept of filial piety, this guy probably makes enough to starve to death.

 

think

(11,641 posts)
17. More to your point the workers know that to protest en masse could be tantamount to suicide as well.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:36 AM
Jan 2012

The threat of mass suicide actually shows the level of their discontent in a shocking way that may bring some resolve to their complaints in a faster way than traditional means.

That is unless the company is willing to have a mass suicide of their workers wake up the people of the world to these deplorable working conditions.

Lars77

(3,032 posts)
19. Given the choice of slavery, starvation in shame or suicide, some people would opt for the latter.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:49 AM
Jan 2012

Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
27. There is nothing wrong with them. They are slave labor.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:37 AM
Jan 2012

Actually, worse than that. They are essentially locked up for most of their lives and then threatened with loss of livelihood after working with toxic chemicals that damage them or fired.

It is a totalitarian society.

"...thirty-four-hour shifts, beatings, child labor, an epidemic of suicides and a general prison-camp atmosphere prevailed, and even yawning could get your (meager) pay docked. He met one worker whose hand had been 'permanently curled into a claw from being smashed in a metal press at Foxconn, where he worked assembling Apple laptops and iPads.'”

ChadwickHenryWard

(862 posts)
37. A man collapsed dead last year in that factory after working 34 hours straight.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 12:28 PM
Jan 2012

Workers drop things off the assembly line just so they can bend their knees once every ten hours. I know it can be difficult for someone living under modern labor protection laws to understand, but the condition in that factory are brutal, abusive, and downright tyrannical. Some people feel that certain things are worth dying for.

Canuckistanian

(42,290 posts)
56. When it's the only kind of job you can get
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 09:15 PM
Jan 2012

These guys can't shop around for jobs any more than you can. Most are from small villages, uneducated and probably sending money home to their families.

These are the poorest of the poor in China. The ones that never got to go to high school or college. Otherwise, they wouldn't be working on the factory floor.

duhneece

(4,105 posts)
12. This is what happens when labor is not allowed to organize
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:19 AM
Jan 2012

The powerful are predators, which is why we must organize to protect the weak.

The Wizard

(12,482 posts)
16. China practices
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:34 AM
Jan 2012

predatory capitalism that has no regulation. Any system left unfettered becomes totalitarian. Slavery is immoral, in spite of what the Bible says.

Javaman

(62,442 posts)
18. did anyone listen to this past sunday's "This American Life"? They did a piece on
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:44 AM
Jan 2012

Foxconn and the whole city in china that builds our crap.

We should be embarassed.

Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)
30. Yes. It was devastating. EVERYONE who sees this post should click on that link
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:41 AM
Jan 2012

and listen to Steve Daisey. I knew Foxxconn was bad, but it is worse than even I was aware.

http://www.thenation.com/article/164499/agony-and-ecstasy-and-disgrace-steve-jobs

"It fell to the monologist Mike Daisey, who created and stars in the brilliant one-man show The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, now at the Public Theater in New York City, to force this issue into public consciousness. Daisey traveled to the Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, China, which employs 420,000 people to manufacture products for Apple and other electronics and computer companies, to talk with the workers (unlike the Wired magazine reporter who, Daisey scathingly notes, penned a 3,300-word cover story on the plant without speaking to a single worker). Daisey’s mission was risky—a photographer was recently beaten up by the company’s guards—but he was determined, having heard about abuses at Foxconn. There, thirty-four-hour shifts, beatings, child labor, an epidemic of suicides and a general prison-camp atmosphere prevailed, and even yawning could get your (meager) pay docked. He met one worker whose hand had been “permanently curled into a claw from being smashed in a metal press at Foxconn, where he worked assembling Apple laptops and iPads.” When Daisey showed the man his iPad, it was the first time he had ever seen one turned on. He thought it was “magic.”

Faced with a public relations problem relating to the suicides, the company installed wire mesh on the factory windows to stop workers from jumping out to kill themselves. According to a subsequent London Daily Mail exposé, the workers have also been forced to sign a legally binding document promising that they and their dependents will not sue the company as the result of “any unexpected death or injury, including suicide or self torture.”

Daisey is right when he insists that Steve Jobs was the one man in the world uniquely positioned to change this. Apple’s profit margins are immense. The stock could have continued to soar even if the pay and conditions of these workers’ lives were built into the cost of an iPhone or an iPad. People would have kept buying the products, and other companies would have been forced to follow suit. But Jobs didn’t care. He even instructed Obama that the United States had to behave more like China in the manner in which it encouraged corporations to act free of regulations or concern for their employees and their environment."

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
42. I heard most of this as well and was shocked
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 01:25 PM
Jan 2012


when he described the dormitories, 12'x12' holding 14-16 beds no American could slide into, with cameras in the halls, cameras in the bedrooms, when he desribed the workers who lost the use of their hands at 25 from doing the same tasks over and over ( which could be easily remedied by letting workers crosstrain ) and much, much more, I decided Apple Inc. sucks balls big time.

Apple, of course, declined to comment.

Everyone should listen to this broadcast. And understand that our "cheap goods" carry a steep price. We are all slave owners if we buy nearly anything made in China.





FailureToCommunicate

(13,989 posts)
63. YES! It was fascinating,then shocking, then deeply saddening!
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 10:58 PM
Jan 2012

EVERYONE or anyone who likes their stuff low-priced should listen to this report of WHY that stuff is inexpensive.

Festivito

(13,452 posts)
29. Is it the bottom yet?
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:40 AM
Jan 2012

or, does the entire company have to commit suicide before we admit to having a capitalism-Kool-Aid-drinking problem.

Or, should we wait for the entire country to commit suicide, or, the entire world.

would we stop it even then?

 

Suji to Seoul

(2,035 posts)
31. Rather common here. No law prevents it so it happens all the time
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:46 AM
Jan 2012

And "maintaining connections" with "incense in the pot" helps enable it.

It's amazing what 30,000RMB (4750 USD) will get you in influence here.

 

Fokker Trip

(249 posts)
35. Foxconn and Robots.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 12:06 PM
Jan 2012

Foxconn is planning to create the largest workforce of robots ever seen on the planet. A million plus robots.

That'll solve at least some of their PR problem and displace a lot of workers in the process. A win-win for Foxconn.

If this is the future(and I'me pretty sure it will be) we'll probably need a planetary guaranteed minimum income.

Robotics

How Foxconn’s Million-Machine ‘Robot Kingdom’ Will Change the Face of Manufacturing

http://techland.time.com/2011/11/09/how-foxconns-million-machine-robot-kingdom-will-change-the-face-of-manufacturing/#ixzz1jAN2vFGz

raouldukelives

(5,178 posts)
43. But by all means keep investing in the stock market
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 01:27 PM
Jan 2012

Just because your investments hasten and encourage this type of behavior is no reason to let it dampen your love of money.

Corruption Winz

(616 posts)
47. Well.. that's certainly a strong poker face..
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 05:31 PM
Jan 2012

Such a sad situation. I have a strong feeling they weren't asking for the world, either.

At least they installed the nets though. Nets/installation that probably cost close to what the workers were likely asking for. Good job.

Fucks.

 

just1voice

(1,362 posts)
50. I wonder who buys all that stuff made in China anyway?
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 05:44 PM
Jan 2012

Who would buy massive amounts of products from a country with at least 200 million slave laborers? Probably a country with torture camps and a for-profit health care system and a criminal banking system.

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
52. Their products seem to have declined in quality as well.
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 07:27 PM
Jan 2012

Computer hardware reviewers are a dependably picky bunch, often refusing to even acknowledge mediocre, under-performing, and/or buggy hardware.

Foxconn hasn't made a motherboard worthy of review by Anandtech in three years.

Perhaps ominously, the last Foxconn board Anandtech reviewed was the defective Foxconn Blood Rage.

ChromeFoundry

(3,270 posts)
65. Foxconn CEO, Billionaire Terry Gou, threatens suicide...
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:43 PM
Jan 2012

Oh, never mind, just wishful thinking that he could understand the employee's pain caused by his creation, perpetuated by US Corporations, allowed by the American Consumers.

SnakeEyes

(1,407 posts)
66. The people of other countries
Wed Jan 11, 2012, 11:52 PM
Jan 2012

need the power to organize into unions. They need to ban foreign companies from bringing their predatory capitalism into their country. Then create a living wage. That would stop the suicides, poverty, and hunger.

Chinese people are screwed. They have moved from communism and continuing further into the capitalist trap.

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