Foxconn's Apple team works another employee to death

[initialised]

Hardly news giving that there have been 9 fatalities out of 11 attempts.

A ninth employee has jumped to his death at Taiwanese iPhone manufacturer Foxconn, China's state media reports.

Xinhua said 21-year-old Nan Gang leapt from a four-storey factory in the early hours, soon after finishing work.

Shortly after, it emerged that the death of a worker at a Foxconn plant in Hebei province earlier this year was also a suicide.

A total of 11 Foxconn employees have tried to kill themselves this year - two have survived.

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[stinkas]

^^^
Apple should find a new partner asap, or take strong action against Foxconn!
If they don't, Apple will be passively endorsing Foxconn's treatment of their staff!!!
Disgusting...

[BeepBeep2]

But they just hired the monks...

On a serious note, there is no way Apple will find a new partner for thier products, or they will end up costing even more than they do now.

[Sparky]

Umm.... Foxconn? What the heck are you doing to your employees that's making them do stuff like this

[DarthBeavis]

I know of someone running another forum who would be a good fit at this FoxxCon plant.

[LowRun]

24 suicides in two years here at France Telecom. This is what happen when you have to please the share holders

[Duh]

24 suicides in two years here at France Telecom. This is what happen when you have to please the share holders

Read about it on wiki.. weird and sad sh :S

[NKrader]

^^^
Apple should find a new partner asap, or take strong action against Foxconn!
If they don't, Apple will be passively endorsing Foxconn's treatment of their staff!!!
Disgusting...

lol bit dramatic?

[01Lude]

thats the global free market for ya. who cares as long as we get CHEAPER products?

/end sarcasm

[prava]

I would burn the fabric first rather than killing myself...

[Xoulz]

I watched a mini-special about this. You should see how pathetic it is... employee's live at work! ...eat at work, sleep at work.. and work at work, which happens to be 12h a day, sometimes more! Can u imagine how mind numbing that can be.

Day after day..

[haylui]

iBloody product....
I never own any iXXXXX product, and will never. Thank you.

[CCUABIDExORxDIE]

I watched a mini-special about this. You should see how pathetic it is... employee's live at work! ...eat at work, sleep at work.. and work at work, which happens to be 12h a day, sometimes more! Can u imagine how mind numbing that can be.

Day after day..

in a society where money means security, through one mannerism or another, what else are you supposed to do?

[STEvil]

I watched a mini-special about this. You should see how pathetic it is... employee's live at work! ...eat at work, sleep at work.. and work at work, which happens to be 12h a day, sometimes more! Can u imagine how mind numbing that can be.

Day after day..

yup.. this time of year 80-100 hours a week isnt too uncommon for me.

[Frananta]

Bah!, at this rate even the monk himself will commit suicide

[Hell Hound]

[Serpentarius]

US-based China Labour Watch has criticised Foxconn's "military-style administration and harsh working conditions" and called on the company to "initiate a thoroughgoing analysis of life on its production lines".

you know ... when Chinese Labours start complaining .... you know it's real serious

[NKrader]

you know ... when Chinese Labours start complaining .... you know it's real serious

they arent.. american journalists are.

[Serpentarius]

they arent.. american journalists are.

ohh, my mistake ... the moment i read it, i was thinking how hilarious it was

[miahallen]

yup.. this time of year 80-100 hours a week isnt too uncommon for me.

[nn_step]

oh look, once again Apple is associated with a series of deaths deemed Suicides; isn't this the 41th time in the last 20 years that this happened?

[[XC] Synthetickiller]

You'd kill yourself too if you worked on any project Apple related.

On a serious note. What is really going on over there? 9? WOW!

[>HyperlogiK<]

oh look, once again Apple is associated with a series of deaths deemed Suicides; isn't this the 41th time in the last 20 years that this happened?

I doubt it, as 'forty one-th' isn't a proper ordinal.

They keep saying that these are suicides, but I bet they are just harvesting stem cells to keep Steve Jobs reanimated corpse running properly.

[Kallenator]

Why is people acting shocked?

That Chinese companies whom produce western consumer articles overwork their employees has been around for a fairly long time.

I saw a documentary about something similar, cellphone factory, where the majority of workers are young girls with small enough hands.
Their work time, working conditions, apartments and salary is all pathetic.

This page sums it up.
http://www.worldtrademag.com/Article...00f932a8c0____


But hey, as long as we get cheap products right?

[K404]

I wonder ......if this continues, will Apples products be treated the same (or similarly) to Sierra Leone conflict Diamonds....


But yea.... cheap products is the only thing a large % of people care about. More and more manufacturing is leaving the Western world so wallets can be filled more fully... and at the other end... wallets can be emptied less.

Western standards and western pay packets are partly to blame for this.