http://gizmodo.com/5....orkers-on-tape
http://gizmodo.com/5....xconns-factory
Within half a year, there have been nine suicides attempts with seven confirmed deaths at Foxconn's Shenzhen factory. In the last month, that number suddenly increased to 30 new suicide attempts, prompting the company to hire counselors and even Buddhist monks to free the souls of the suicidal from purgatory.
9 Workers out of god knows how many have commited suicide due to stress from their jobs.
It has been stated that these working conditions are only for the workers who are creating parts for Apple:
To all you commenters who insist on pointing out that Foxconn manufactures products for companies other than Apple, you are missing the point.
Only the employees working on the Apple products are oppressed, overworked, and suicidal (did you miss the part about them purchasing knock offs?).
All the other employees are allowed to live off campus but the Apple ones (due to the required secrecy) are forced to live within the Foxconn facilities.
They are not allowed phone calls, letters, or any other type of communication.
For those commenters who have taken mathematical liberties to show that Foxconn employees are no more suicidal than the rest of China using the 400,000 employees example. Again, you are missing some important information.
There are only 25,104 employees working on the Apple products. All of the suicides are from this group of employees. All of these suicides (save one) are suspected to be cover ups and not actual suicides.
Finally, for all the commenters and non-commenters alike. I'm sorry to have wasted whatever time it took you to read this comment with its complete and utter bull crap. I just wanted to see what it felt like to join the hoards of idiots posting stupid crap defending this practice in any shape or form.
Stolen from here
Edited out OP's "feelings" bullsh*t. nobody cares about these gooks.
Edited by Stubs, 20 May 2010 - 05:59 PM.
