According to the Chinese anti-government website China Jasmine Revolution, about 300 employees at a Foxconn Technology Park in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, threatened to kill themselves by jumping from the top of a building in the park.
On Jan. 2, about 300 employees at a plant belonging to Taiwan-based Foxconn — the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer — asked their boss for a raise. They were told either quit their positions with compensation or keep their jobs and receive no additional payment. Most employees took the first option, but the company terminated the agreement, and none of them were given the money they were promised.
Eventually, the mayor of Wuhan came to stop dissuade the former employees from committing suicide. At 9:00pm on Jan. 3, the group chose life.
Suicides at Foxconn plants resulted in the deaths of 14 workers in 2010, where employees frequently complained of discrimination and long working hours.
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Wonderful country
Just ask Thomas Friedman.
Or Andy Stern.
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I bet they formed a red ring of death on the roof.
at least they do good work. never had any problems with my smartphone or computers and what not.
funny.how everyone here in the u.s. is now being conditioned to hate unions over the past several years. the picture is starting to come together for some who can see
No we love unions… in countries that compete with us.
Unions here are uneccesary as all of the union work regs have been largely legislated or litigated. That’s why unions are dying here, not because we’ve been conditioned to “hate” them.
They don’t have that stuff in Chiner (sic), so they could prolly use some real unions.
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What happens when our entitlement generation of androgynous hipsters are unable to purchase the latest overpriced model iCrap device due to chip/board shortages? I am scared.
Brilliant. Seriously, what’s up with the rampant androgyny? I know Japan’s already 20 years into it, but why the hell is it infecting an ethnically heterogeneous nation like ours?
Because old folks become increasingly androgynous as they age. Since the *^&*^#@!! Boomer Generation controls every freaking thing, androgeny has become the new “sexy.”
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