An employee of high-tech firm, Foxconn died on 21 May after jumping from a building in the Southern manufacturing hub of Shenzhen, the tenth such suicide since the start of this year. The dead worker was identified as Nan Gang, a 21 year old from Hubei Province. All the suicide victims at this electronics component factory are migrant workers from outside the city aged between 18 and 24 years old. Stress and lack of social life seem to be the root cause of the suicides. Public outrage has been incurred by a report on Beijing television showing security guards in black uniforms beating workers in Foxconn’s Beijing plant in August last year. The Mayor of Tianjin arrived at the Foxconn factory to investigate on the day Nan Gang died. The factory owners have invited monks to the factory to try and ‘relieve the bad atmosphere’. (more…)
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Foxconn, the Taiwanese giant and a major manufacturer for the US based Apple Corp, has a problem. Employees keep dying or trying to commit suicide. In the latest case on April 6 an eighteen year old worker surnamed Rao leaped from her seventh floor accommodation at the company’s factory in Guanlan, Shenzhen, at about 3:20 pm following an altercation with her boyfriend, Foxconn spokesman Liu Kun told China Daily. The incident comes eight days after a 23 year old worker fell from a 14th floor of the dormitory building at the same factory. Liu said Foxconn is providing psychological counseling to its near 400,000 workforce in Shenzhen. It seems like more than counseling is required. The Times Online reported in July 2009 that a Foxconn employee committed suicide after losing a prototype iPhone. The factory worker leapt to his death after allegedly being beaten by security guards. (more…)
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