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To: Swordmaker
The 2010 suicides prompted 20 Chinese universities to compile an 83-page report on Foxconn, which they described as a "labour camp." Interviews of 1,800 Foxconn workers at 12 factories found evidence of illegal overtime and failure to report accidents. The report also criticized Foxconn's management style, which it called inhumane and abusive.[3][3] Additionally, long working hours,[37] discrimination of mainland Chinese workers by their Taiwanese coworkers,[40] and a lack of working relationships[41] were all presented as potential problems in the university report.

A 2012 audit of Foxconn performed by the Fair Labor Association, at the request of Apple Inc., suggested that workplace accidents might be commonplace, and that workers may consider overtime pay insufficient.[42]

22 posted on 12/30/2016 10:50:36 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
Not a single thing in your cut and paste response proved anything about relative suicide rates, which of Foxxcoon's 24 plants they occurred at, or what was being made at that plant. Nor does it address the relative pay rates between Apple assembly lines (2.5 to 3 times higher per Apple's contracts) compared to other consumer electronic brands, or Apple's contractually imposed working conditions vis-a-vis other brands' requirements (virtually non-existent!). Nor did it mention the fact that of ALL consumer electronic makers, only Apple actually MONITORS working conditions on its assembly lines to assure compliance with those contractual requirements AND has pulled billion dollar contracts from contractors who have egregiously refused to comply with corrective measures.

That 2012 audit where you cite "workers consider overtime pay insufficient," actually cited the workers' dissatisfaction with the cut-back in opportunity for overtime hours, not the pay rate, which was instituted due to the 2010 University report which criticized the excess voluntary overtime hours workers were utilizing to often double their weekly hours worked, and limited overtime allowed to 20 hours per week and 60 per month. This lack of overtime cut into the money the workers had been routinely sending home to their families. China does not have a 1.5 overtime rate. Overtime in China is paid at regular hourly rates.

The suicide rate among FoxConn's workers in 2010 was 0.75 per 100,000 per year. The suicide rate among the same age cohorts in US Ivy League Universities is 11 per 100,000 per year. China's national suicide rate in that same age cohort is 8 per 100,000 per year! Young people are less inclined to commit suicide IF they have a job at Foxconn than if they work elsewhere!

In 2013, Foxconn had ZERO suicides among its 1.5 million employees, and only one in 2014.

24 posted on 12/30/2016 11:27:33 AM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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