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Showing Original Post only (View all)Hundreds of Foxconn employees threaten suicide [View all]
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/item/25291-hundreds-of-foxconn/Between 150 and 300 workers at Foxconns 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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Yeah...it kind of hurts the "brand" when your wageslaves start killing themselves...
Ken Burch
Jan 2012
#57
If the future of America is in the corporatist's hands, we'll be the next China.
HughBeaumont
Jan 2012
#2
Shadowflash is referring to a particularly ugly dispute going on in Ontario right now
Posteritatis
Jan 2012
#48
2000 is more in line with the average, but still a little below the average.
Suji to Seoul
Jan 2012
#34
Yeah, I'm concluding many are pretty lame, moreover, they seem proud of it ... I told
RKP5637
Jan 2012
#36
They are slave labor. If they report to the government union (other unions are illegal)
Hissyspit
Jan 2012
#32
We are talking about China. Foxconn workers are basically at the mercy of the corporate overlords
think
Jan 2012
#14
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
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
did anyone listen to this past sunday's "This American Life"? They did a piece on
Javaman
Jan 2012
#18
Yes. It was devastating. EVERYONE who sees this post should click on that link
Hissyspit
Jan 2012
#30