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: 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.

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

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?

Down with Foxconn -- AGAIN!!

from:  http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/12/01/12/apple_supplier_foxconn_settles_with_protesting_employees.html

Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn settles with protesting employees

By Mikey Campbell

Published: 05:18 PM EST (02:18 PM PST)

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Apple's Chinese manufacturing partner Foxconn has settled a dispute with plant workers who threatened mass suicide over wages and working conditions at the company's Wuhan factory which produces Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console.

The Taiwan-based electronics maker said in a statement released on Thursday that it had reached an agreement with a group of workers who were protesting the low pay and dismal work environment at the company's plant in Wuhan, China, reports The New York Times.

Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer and supplier of products to Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and others, claims that the two parties came to an amicable agreement to the week-long ordeal which ended with the resignation of 45 employees.

In its official statement, the company noted that most of the approximately 150 protestors had accepted the proposed terms and have returned to work. Details of the settlement have not been released.

“The welfare of our employees is our top priority, and we are committed to ensuring that all employees are treated fairly and that their rights are fully protected," Foxconn said in the statement.

An employee at the facility, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that over 100 of the 32,000 workers at the Wuhan campus had taken to the rooftop of a three-story campus building in a protest that lasted eight hours. Some of the disgruntled employees reportedly threatened to jump from the roof if the company failed to meet their demands.

“That day was very cold,” he said. “Some women could not stand the freezing temperatures and fainted.”

Protestors gather atop a building at Foxconn's Wuhan campus | Source: The Epoch Times

The unnamed worker said that Foxconn promised a $450 per month salary including overtime pay as part of a deal for workers who were forced to relocate from the company's main factory in Shenzhen to Wuhan, but employees have received only two-thirds that amount and need to endure poor working conditions.

Foxconn is no stranger to employee unrest, and was the subject of some controversy during a rash of suicides in 2010. The disturbing trend brought Chinese factory conditions to the fore and compelled large tech corporations like Apple to launch internal investigations of workplace conditions and employee compensation.

In response to the 2010 suicides, Foxconn promised to up wages by 20 percent and is looking into replacing a portion of its workforce with robots.

Down with Foxconn: Yet Another Suicide!!!

2010-07-22 07:28

An 18-year-old summer intern at a factory affiliated with the Foxconn Technology Group was found dead on Tuesday after falling from a six-story company dormitory in Guangdong Province.

The death adds to a string of worker suicides at factories run by Foxconn, a supplier to Apple Inc.

LCD maker Chimei Innolux Corp said yesterday the man started the internship on July 2 but was being let go because he failed to show up for work for several days.

Source:Shanghai Daily

Bloggers' Pressure Forces Foxconn to Raise Worker Wages by 33%

The Fairbank Report is proud to be a part of the pressure groups which successfully forced the bourgeois elites at Foxconn to increase the wages of their workers and toilers from 900 RMB to 1200 RMB per month. Still, that's only 176 USD per month.

The fight continues. La lucha continua...

Boycott Foxconn!

Outrage! Foxconn Chairman: Suicides Statistically Insignificant!

Drawing: bmezine.com

The putative chairman of Foxconn, the Taiwanese subcontractor for such large brands as Dell, HP, Nokia and Apple, told reporters that the 13 suicide attempts at his company's facilities on mainland China are insignificant. Ping-pong Guo, also known as "Terry," made the outrageous remark a few days ago. What a capitalist pig!

Experts blame poor working conditions, including twelve-hour shifts and social isolation, for the rash of suicides and suicide attempts among Foxconn's young employees.

DOWN WITH THE FOXCONN BOURGEOISIE! LONG LIVE THE WORKING MASSES OF FOXCONN!

DOWN WITH FOXCONN; HOLD DELL, HP & APPLE ACCOUNTABLE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS!

AP News

13th Foxconn worker reportedly attempts suicide

GUANGZHOU, China – A Foxconn Technology worker tried to kill himself Thursday, becoming the 13th person to commit suicide or attempt to do so this year at the company, which makes high-tech products for industry giants such as Apple, Dell and Hewlett-Packard, state media said.

Police said the man survived after cutting himself in his dormitory room at the factory, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. It said the 25-year-old man, surnamed Chen, migrated from central Hunan province and began working at Foxconn two months ago.

Foxconn officials and police did not immediately answer calls by The Associated Press.

The 12 previous suicide attempts at Foxconn Technology Group's operations in southern China involved workers who jumped from buildings. Two survived. Another worker killed himself in January at a factory in northern China.

On Wednesday night, a 23-year-old worker from the northwestern province of Gansu killed himself by leaping from a dormitory balcony. Hours earlier, Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou had led a media tour of the industrial park and promised to work harder to prevent more deaths.

Gou said he couldn't sleep at night and dreaded answering his phone in off hours, fearing more news about deaths.

The Foxconn chairman showed off a motherboard factory, hot line center and even a swimming pool for employees. The walled-in industrial park, where 300,000 people work, looks like a small city, with palm tree-lined streets, fast-food restaurants, banks and a bookstore among huge factory buildings and towering dormitories.

Gou said the company would do everything possible to prevent more deaths. Safety nets were being installed on buildings and more counselors were being hired. He also said all the employees were being divided into 50-member groups, whose members would watch for signs of emotional trouble within their group.

Labor activists accuse the company of having a rigid management style, a too-fast assembly line and overwork. Foxconn denies the allegations.

The company, part of Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., is the world's largest contract maker of electronics. Its long list of big-name customers include Apple Inc., Sony Corp., Dell Inc., Nokia Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co.