employees jumping for joy, not
with 4g iphones expected to ship this summer, it’s no wonder that there’s a lot of pressure at the chinese company, foxconn. the pressure has been too much for the 9 people, the most recent this past week, who have committed suicide since january by jumping from one of the foxconn buildings. foxconn is the main manufacturer of all great things apple (iphones, ipads and ipods) as well as some intel, dell and hp products. the largest of the manufacturing plant houses over 400,000 employees who work from 60-100 overtime hours per month (yes, I said overtime hours). employees live in foxconn villages where their lives consist of working, sleeping and eating. said the ceo of foxconn in response to the latest suicide “We believe that we are definitely not a sweatshop. It’s very difficult to manage a manufacturing team of 800,000 something.” foxconn has hired counselors and even buddhist monks in attempts to get control of the situation but it doesn’t seem to have helped. i got a crazy idea, foxconn. why not adhere to the legal limit on the number of overtime hours a person can work(currently 36) and raise the monthly base salaries from the measly 900 yuans (equivalent of $132) so that people don’t feel their only way out is by jumping off a building?
photo courtsey of jeff croft
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