Worker suicides plague Apple contractor Foxconn

http://www.france24.com/en/20100526-worker-suicides-plague-apple-contractor-foxconn

AFP - Apple manufacturer Foxconn was taking extraordinary measures Wednesday to safeguard its business and workers following a spate of suicides at its sprawling plant in southern China...But workers spoke of long hours, harsh supervisors and low pay. A 21-year-old employee from the southern province of Guangxi told the South China Morning Post how she worked 12-hours a day, six days a week.

"The atmosphere inside our workplaces is so tight and depressing that we're not allowed to speak to each other for 12 hours or you'll be reproached by your supervisors." Another worker, from the central province of Hunan, complained that the assembly line moved too fast and she had to check thousands of motherboards for electronic gadgets every day....




Protestors in Hong Kong burn replica iPhones during a demonstration near Foxcomm's offices in the city on May 25. Labour activists in have urged a boycott of the next generation of Apple's iPhone, which is assembled by Foxconn, days ahead of the international launch of the much talked-about iPad.

That's what the ads say, anyway, so it must be true.

The display still works after it's half-consumed by fire? I don't think so. :eyes:

burned at a protest.

Do iSheep refuse to actually read anything without a touchscreen involved?

and they have all these cool features. I mean we care and everything, but not THAT much!"

:rofl:

double post.

Suicides are awful, but this plant builds a lot more than just iPhones and employs 300,000 people.

The rate is actually roughly in line with China's overall rate. That is sad in and of itself.

Noting the figures, Dr. Hynek Pikhart, senior lecturer in epidemiology and public health at University College London, said, "The (Foxconn) rates are not probably too high or unexpectedly high."

Pikhart added, "I guess one of the reasons why these got the news they did is that maybe these are workplace suicides."


Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/05/27/1460536/china-tech-plant-apologizes-for.html#ixzz0p99r2O2j

in the USA so those little yellow people can work 18 hour days for 50 cents/hour. :crazy:

Humane to all peoples? God Bless Apple!

at the facility that manufactures their products. They could manufacture them here and give people great jobs. Try going a day without using something slave-made.