Jan. 10, 2012 at 6:17pm with 172 notes
Reblogged from paxamericana
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Foxconn, the workers behind Apple and Microsoft products, threaten mass suicide to protest working conditions and pay.

paxamericana:

As American consumers ogle over shiny new gadgets at this week’s Consumer Electronic’s Show, the workers that make those products are threatening mass suicide for the horrid working conditions at Foxconn. 300 employees who worked making the Xbox 360 stood at the edge of the factory building, about to jump, after their boss reneged on promised compensation, reports English news site Want China Times. It’s not like this is the first time working conditions at Foxconn have made news outside China. But iPhone and Xbox sales surely haven’t lagged in the wake of those revelations and neither Apple nor Microsoft has done much of anything to fix things. 

Instead of the raise they requested, these workers were given the following ultimatum: quit with compensation, or keep their jobs with no pay increase. Most quit and never got the money. That’s when the mass suicide threat came in. The incident actually caused a factory wide shutdown, reports Record China. 

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    This is dreadful. Sort it out, enormous rich American companies.
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    My dad works at Foxconn. :/ He hates it there. He’s been wanting to retire since he hit 49, I think, but something...
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    Agggh that’s horrific. It’s things like this, and knowing about the techniques that are used to get raw materials, that...
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    Can we just look at how big an understatement the headline “foxconn is still a hard place to work” is? Suicide...
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    As American consumers ogle over shiny new gadgets at this week’s Consumer Electronic’s Show, the workers that make those...
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