Foxconn's (360 Assembly Plant) Death Toll Rises

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Here's a report from the Financial Times about Foxconn - one of the factories assembling the Xbox 360:

Terry Gou, founder and chairman of Hon Hai, the Taiwanese parent company of Foxconn, rushed to Shenzhen yesterday in an attempt to deal with the crisis from a continuing string of suicides among workers.

 

The move came after another employee at the plant died after falling off a building yesterday morning. Shenzhen police confirmed the death but said they were still investigating whether it was suicide. Nine people have died this year in the series of incidents among workers, while there have been two failed suicide attempts.

 

Labour activists in Hong Kong have threatened to start a campaign for a boycott of Apple's iPhone, one of the many electronic devices made by the 300,000 workers at the Shenzhen plant. Workers are paid the minimum wage and regularly work heavy overtime.

 

Female workers on one production line at the plant told the Financial Times during a factory visit last week that they earned Rmb1,800 to Rmb1,900 ($263-$278) a month, working 12 hours a day with a two-hour lunch break.

 

Full Story: ft.com (thx to GaryOPA for the news)

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