Apparently, conditions are so bad at Foxconn that 11 workers committed suicide last year! Apple, IBM, Cisco and Microsoft all send their work to Foxconn. These companies may distance themselves from Foxconn, but I'm pretty sure that the conditions in the new factories that are contracted to do their work will be pretty much the same.
It's amazing that it took a year and a half and 11 suicides before they decided to put up a safety net. That tells me that they didn't really care, but since word was getting out they had to make themselves look good. Since American workers have to compete with these guys as the economy swirls down the commode, I wonder if Americans will be willing to take slave labor jobs when it comes to the point of desperation? http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/career/suicides-at-iphone-manufacturing-plants-cause-corporate-change/3111?tag=nl.e101 _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
