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Foxconn suicede numbers.

Are the people working there indentured servants or otherwise forced to work there? I'm not being sarcastic, I don't know anything about this issue.
 
shocksyde said:
$32/hr? Sign me up.
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Looks like it is $32 for a full week:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/27/technology/27suicide.html

Workers are paid about $32 for a regular 40-hour workweek, which is above minimum wage
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Also, Apple's supplier tends to get rather violent:
http://www.dailytech.com/Another+Fo...eo+of+Employee+Beating+Leaks/article18471.htm
along with the report came a recently leaked video of security guards at the company's Beijing facility allegedly beating up an employee.
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They were talking about this on WGN radio here in Chicago, Foxconn basically runs an entire city! It is a walled-in compound which houses about 300,000 employees. They are not allowed to leave, they all live in basically dormitories, they are not allowed breaks, not even allowed to talk to other employees during their work shifts, they are completely shut off from any outside family...

I don't have a link to back this up, apparently there was some media documentary not too long ago about Foxconn's facilities that the radio host had seen.
 
Somebody in another thread pointed out that the suicide rate at Foxconn is actually lower than the Chinese national suicide rate. Well, at least up until this latest one, anyway.
 
It's still lower I think. This Foxconn plant has had 12 suicides this year, right? It employs 300,000 people. If you extrapolate that out for the full year, it's like 8 suicides per 100,000 employees per year. The national rate in China is around 14 per 100,000 people per year.

Not saying that the working conditions are great, but barely growing enough food to survive in rural China isn't fun either. People are obviously lining up for these factory jobs in the city because they're better than the alternatives.
 
yeah I was wrong, $32 a week!! I felt so bad I just bought a Foxconn mobo for a AMD saga chip , stable it can use my old ram for my daughter Linux pc.
 
Maybe they should get some anti-gravity boots. 🙁
But yeah the rate taken as a % of their workforce is really small.
 
More liberal sensationalism. Fact is that the workers CHOOSE to do these jobs. To them, landing a job like this is like finding a gold mine. Before, they were barely able to survive by farming. Now, they get free food and living areas AND they make a wage and can save their money.
 
i work union in america and i have never had a job that i get more then 20min every 4 hours. and if its a 10 hour day then i get 20 min still, so its work 4 hours then work 6.
 
CallMeJoe said:
So Conservatives have no iProducts?
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We cannot afford the iProducts, we are all on social welfare programs from Blue States and spend all of the handouts on booze and smokes.

Hehehe, just joking. We use the Zune! But, you never see us with them and our ThinkPads because they do not look cool in Star Bucks next to all of the liberals writing their screen plays on their Mac Book Pros.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqTYI55K1eo
 
wirednuts said:
i work union in america and i have never had a job that i get more then 20min every 4 hours. and if its a 10 hour day then i get 20 min still, so its work 4 hours then work 6.
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What do you mean "get 20min," breaks? I work as an engineer and often will work 10-12 hours straight, no lunch or dinner.
 
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