Breaking: Revolution at FoxConn

Workers at the FoxConn factory in Shenzhen, China, have had enough of the rough treatment at the hands of their capitalist-pig overlords.  They revolted last night, at 23.00 local time, and the plant is now temporarily closed. 

Bye, bye i-phone 5!  Down with Ping-pong Gou!  Hold Apple Responsible!  Down with FoxConn!

F*CK FOXCONN AGAIN!!!!!!

 

FUCK.  FUCK.  FUCK.  THESE CAPITALISTS ARE REALLY PERSISTENT.  EVEN AFTER ALL THE DIRECTIVES THAT THIS FAIRBANK REPORT ISSUED TO THEM TO CEASE AND DESIST HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, PING-PONG GUO AND HIS FOXCONN CAPITALIST-PIGS ARE AT IT AGAIN, ABUSING CHILDREN.

 

AFTER THE FAIRBANK REPORT SUCCESSFULLY FORCED FOXCONN TO RAISE WAGES FOR ITS OPPRESSED EMPLOYEES TWO YEARS AGO, FOXCONN, IN A DIABOLICAL SCHEME TO RECOUP THESE COSTS, HAS FORCED MAINLAND CHINESE STUDENTS TO WORK FOR THEM FOR FREE UNDER THE GUISE OF "INTERNSHIPS."  SOME REPORTS EVEN SUGGEST THAT THE "INTERNS" HAVE TO PAY FOXCONN FOR THEIR ROOM AND BOARD!!!  

 

DOWN WITH PING-PONG GUO AND HIS CAPITALIST BEASTS!  DOWN WITH APPLE!  DOWN WITH STEVE JOBS!  DOWN WITH SLAVERY!  UP WITH THE PROLETARIAT!

 

Foxconn interns forced to make the iPhone 5?

Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal by Diana Samuels, Technology Reporter

Date: Monday, September 10, 2012, 10:27am PDT

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Apple is expected to launch its iPhone 5 this week, but concerns continue to swirl around work conditions at its suppliers' factories.

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New accusations about questionable work conditions are being leveled at Apple contractor Foxconn, as Apple prepares to launch its latest iPhone later this week.
Chinese newspapers are reporting that interns from Chinese vocational schools were forced to work at Foxconn factories to help fill orders related to Apple’s new iPhone.
Foxconn told Bloomberg the interns were free to leave at any time, but the Chinese publications said they couldn’t get the credits they needed to graduate unless they worked at the factory.

F*CK FOXCONN: ANOTHER EMPLOYEE SUICIDE

 

 

ALSO F*CK APPLE AND APPLE USERS!  THEY ARE COMPLICIT IN THESE KIDS' MURDERS!

 

Foxconn worker falls to death in China

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A Foxconn worker fell to his death in China, the company which assembles products for Apple said Thursday, following a series of fatalities that sparked concern about conditions at its plants.

The 23-year-old, identified only by his surname Xie, fell from his rented apartment in the southwest Chinese city of Chengdu on Wednesday, according to a statement released by Hon Hai Precision Industry, Foxconn's parent company.
It said the cause of the tragedy was not immediately clear and Chengdu police were still investigating.
Taiwan tech giant Foxconn, which assembles products for Apple, Sony and Nokia, has come under the spotlight after suicides and labour unrest at its Chinese plants since 2010.
At least 13 employees died in apparent suicides in 2010, followed by several others in 2011. Activists blamed tough working conditions, leading to calls for better treatment of the company's staff.
Although Foxconn denied the accusations, it raised wages by nearly 70 percent at its China plants in 2010.
Foxconn employs about a million workers in China, roughly half of them based in its main facility in Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong.
In order to reduce its reliance on labour, Foxconn has planned to use one million robots to do "simple" work, China Business News has quoted chairman Terry Gou saying.
Foxconn currently has 10,000 robots doing painting, welding and assembly tasks. It will increase that number to 300,000 next year and to one million in 2014, the report said.

f*ck foxconn

From http://www.technoid.com.au/2012/03/31/apple-fails-chinese-labor-audit/






An audit of three Foxconn factories by FLA, Fair Labor Association – pumping out coveted Apple gadgets – has found abuses of Chinese labour law, including employees working more than 76 hours a week and more than seven days straight without a required 24-hour break. Along with excessive overtime and not always compensating workers properly for extra hours that were put in, the nearly month-long investigation uncovered health and safety risks and “crucial communication gaps.”

“The Fair Labor Association gave Apple’s largest supplier the equivalent of a full-body scan through 3,000 staff hours investigating three of its factories and surveying more than 35,000 workers,” said the watchdog’s president Auret van Heerden. ”Apple and its supplier Foxconn have agreed to our prescriptions, and we will verify progress and report publicly.”

With 1.2 million workers, Foxconn, an affiliate of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry, is by far Apple’s largest and most influential partner. While the audit found multiple violations of labour law at the Foxconn factories, it also found many of the workers would like to work more hours and make more money. Mr van Heerden says this sentiment is typical of migrant workers in China.

“Migrant workers go to find work with a view to make as much money as they can in the shortest time as possible,” Mr van Heerden said. ”So they do push for extra hours, especially overtime hours that are paid at a premium.”

Young, Male, Migrant Workforce

The survey of Foxconn workers revealed the average age of workers building Apple products was 23 and over 60 per cent were male. Less than 6 per cent of workers in the three facilities were between the ages of 16 and 18. Almost all of the workers in Guanlan and Longhua had come from other countries or regions looking for jobs.

But in recent years Foxconn has encouraged workers to move outside the infamous factory dormitories. About 16 per cent of the workers surveyed said the dorms were “very much” crowded while another 19 per cent said “yes, a little”, while 50 per cent said the question was “not applicable”.

The survey revealed that 71 per cent of them do not think the factory canteens serve good food. Nearly 48 per cent disagreed with the premise that the canteens in the factories were clean and hygienic. Most of the workers in the three factories were employed as “operators,” with engineers making up less than 4 per cent of the worker population in the two Shenzhen factories, Guanlan and Longhua.

In Chengdu, nearly 11 per cent of the workers were engineers, according to FLA. A majority of all those surveyed said the compensation does not meet their basic needs. One particular concern to workers was aluminium dust, which had caused an explosion in Foxconn’s Chengdu factory.

Apple Chief Tim Cook Visits

In response to the report, Apple says it has agreed to work with Foxconn to tackle wage and working condition violations at the factories that produce its popular products. Foxconn will hire tens of thousands of new workers, clamp down on illegal overtime, improve safety protocols and upgrade worker housing and other amenities.

Apple announced the moves as the company’s chief executive, Tim Cook, was paying a visit to China. State media said he had met with vice premier Li Keqiang, the man tipped to be country’s next leader, who told him foreign firms should do more to protect workers. Apple and Foxconn are so dominant in the global technology industry that their newly forged accord will likely have a substantial ripple effect across the sector.

The deal may raise costs for other manufacturers who contract with the Taiwanese company, including Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Amazon.com, Motorola, Nokia and Sony. It could result in higher prices for consumers, though the impact will be limited because labour costs are only a small fraction of the total cost for most high-tech devices.

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Ping-pong Guo Steps in it Again!

Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn's CEO stepped in the doo-doo again.  A few days ago, at a Chinese New Year celebration at the Taipei Zoo, Ping-pong Guo (also putatively known as "Terry") referred to his one million Mainland Chinese employees as "animals."

Last year, Ping-pong Guo said that the rash of suicides (13 in all) at his Mainland Chinese sweat shops were "statistically insignificant."

Oh, Ping-pong, what are we going to do with you?