I have never disputed that Daisey fabricated his report, but you said that Chinese kids were jumping off buildings because they didn’t get enough overtime.
This article says it was labor disputes over wages (no surprise). Says earlier suicides were met with pay raises and nets to catch any jumpers.
“With weak workplace protections, employees sometimes feel forced to take extreme measures in pay disputes...”
I appreciate that you posted one link (not a primary source, by the way, but appreciated). If Apple has better policies, I applaud them. This was your issue, however, not mine.
I was making an admittedly hyperbolic assertion that left-wing companies who pay Democrats (in dollars or services) are in fact paying for draconian US regulations that forced them overseas in the first place. And Apple is one of them.
Reuters - "When Chinese worker Wu Jun heard that her employer, the giant electronics assembly company Foxconn, had given employees landmark concessions her reaction was worry, not elation.Foxconn's concessions, including cutting overtime for its 1.2 million mainland Chinese workers while promising compensation that protects them against losing income, were backed by Apple, which has faced criticism and media scrutiny for worker safety lapses and for using relatively low-paid employees to make high-cost phones, computers and other gadgets.
But at the Foxconn factory gates, many workers seemed unconvinced that their pay wouldn't be cut along with their hours. For some Chinese factory workers - who make much of their income from long hours of overtime - the idea of less work for the same pay could take getting used to.
"We are worried we will have less money to spend. Of course, if we work less overtime, it would mean less money," said Wu, a 23-year-old employee from Hunan province in south China.
"We are here to work and not to play, so our income is very important," said Chen Yamei, 25, a Foxconn worker from Hunan who said she had worked at the factory for four years.
"We have just been told that we can only work a maximum of 36 hours a month of overtime. I tell you, a lot of us are unhappy with this. We think that 60 hours of overtime a month would be reasonable and that 36 hours would be too little," she added. Chen said she now earned a bit over 4,000 yuan a month ($634).