http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/media-gets-its-facts-wrong-working-at-foxconn-significantly-cuts-suicide-risk/1356
11 suicides from a pool of up to 800,000 employees is well below China's reported average (in 1999 at least, although I would imagine not much has changed) of 11 suicides per 100,000 people. You might want to read more than one article before posting this sensationalist bullshit. -pat On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Paul Saenz <forensicneoph...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 >
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