Suicide nets around FoxConn Chinese facility.
Suicide nets around FoxConn Chinese facility.
The suicide rate at FoxConn was far lower than the suicide rate in the Chinese population in general, Central_va. In fact, at the HEIGHT of the spate of suicide at FoxConn in 2010, SIX YEARS AGO, the suicide rate was less than 1 per 100,000 per year.
The suicide rate among the same age cohort of students at US Ivy League University Students in the same year was 11 per 100,000 per year. In other words a young person was ELEVEN TIMES less likely to commit suicide working for FoxConn than they were attending Harvard.
In 2013 FoxConn had ZERO suicides among its 1.4 MILLION employees. In 2014, there were three.
Even at the height of the suicides at FoxConn in 2010, outside investigators from labor organizations who sent in psychologists, it was found that the of 18 suicids over a period of 18 months none were related to work conditions. Several were related to mental health conditions, two were related to love triangles, two to home-sickness, and several to financial pressures and the fact that Terry Gou, the CEO of FoxConn had been making it a practice of giving the families of workers who died at FoxConn between twenty to twenty-five times their annual salaries as a bereavement payment. Some workers figured they were worth more to their families dead than alive and working, sending money home. Gou ceased making such large bereavement payments, instead making the normal workers' compensation payment only for accidental deaths, and the suicides STOPPED.
Make that "DELIBERATE IGNORANCE", central_va.
Because you already know not a single suicide occurred at a FoxConn plant making Apple products. The spate of six was at a plant making Microsoft X-boxes, Nokia Cellular phones, HP-Computers, and Sony Playstations.
So exactly what was your point in posting this non sequitur on this Apple thread -- for the umpteenth time? It's not as if you haven't been told all these facts, you have. So, this has to be your anti-Apple hate brigade irrationality coming to the fore, right?