Foxconn suicide plant stops hiring new workers

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from theinquirer.net ............ Pending a review

PARENT OF Foxconn, Hon Hai Precision Industry has stopped hiring new workers for its suicide-hit Southern China plant, realising there isn't much point if they keep killing themselves.

According to Reuters , the company stopped hiring staff two weeks ago, pending a review of how the plant is being managed.

It has been a difficult time for Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics maker with a customer list that includes Apple, Dell and Hewlett Packard, after 11 Chinese workers killed themselves at the massive plant, 10 of the suicides in last five months.

Steve Jobs of Apple claimed that the deaths weren't because it was a sweatshop yet according to reports Foxconn was willing to increase salaries by nearly 70 per cent in two rounds of pay increases.

The suicides came amid growing labour unrest in Southern China, the world's top manufacturing region, where poor migrant workers churn out what the big tech companies need to get their shiny toys into our hands.

Of course this wasn't going to stop Foxconn from pursuing profit , asking for more cash from its clients to help 'bear the burden'.

Yet Hon Hai chairman Terry Gou has a personal fortune estimated at $5.5 billion, and owns a castle.

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Originally Posted by radio667

PARENT OF Foxconn, Hon Hai Precision Industry has stopped hiring new workers for its suicide-hit Southern China plant, realising there isn't much point if they keep killing themselves.

Dumb is trump. I mean of course.. its the works fault, isn`t it? I did read recently only a smaller article about that but if that what was written there is true, I dont wonder. Its terrible and unthinkable... but I can not wonder about that. I only know that they are/were completly observed with every movement they are doing. The military seems also to be ruthless with their questioning.
Money isn`t anything, specially not if your lifetime is about to get abrupt stopped by your own actions. But sadly (?) I dont know enough about that...