Foxconn has promised to give high raises to all its workers in China. At the Longhua plant where the deaths occurred, the raises will go up to over 100% by October 2010. Details here: http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201006080018&Type=aECO. This is a great result money-wise. I hope this change will also mean fewer hours for workers because they won't need to do as much overtime to get by. After all, man does not live by bread alone -- he also needs to sleep some. The above photos are of a protest at the Apple Store in New York on June 7 and of a similar protest at another Apple Store in Hong Kong on June 8. The gentleman to the left of the flowers in the New York photo is Li Qiang, a survivor of Tiananmen Square and director of China Labor Watch.
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Foxconn has promised to give substantial raises to all its workers in China. At the Longhua plant where the deaths occurred, by October 2010 pay will have gone up over 100%. Details here: http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?ID=201006080018&Type=aECO. This is a great result money-wise. I hope this change will also mean fewer hours for workers because they won't need to do as much overtime to get by. After all, man does not live by bread alone -- he also needs to sleep some. The above photos are of a protest at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store in New York on June 7 and of a similar protest at another store that sells Apple products in Hong Kong on June 8. The gentleman to the left of the flowers in the New York photo is Li Qiang, a survivor of Tiananmen Square and director of China Labor Watch.
Please do not buy an iPhone or related equipment for the month of June.
Many of you may have heard of the cluster of worker suicides at the Shenzhen factories of Foxconn, a company that makes iPhones for Apple. Activists have been trying to call attention to conditions at Foxconn since before the first deaths. Foxconn has better industrial hygiene than most factories in the area, and the pay is at least nominally higher, but there is something poisonous in the Foxconn culture. Mainstream media has been relying on Foxconn and Apple press releases for information, so I have pasted a link to a better, more detailed account of the deaths.
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Many of you may have heard of the recent cluster of worker suicides at the Shenzhen factories of Foxconn, a company that makes iPhones for Apple. These deaths have finally focused media attention on the company, although labor rights activists have been reporting abuses at Foxconn since 2008. Foxconn has better industrial hygiene than most factories in the area, and the pay is at least nominally higher, but something in the Foxconn atmosphere seems to damage people psychologically. The fact that workers are not allowed to speak during their 12+ hour workdays, except to answer questions from supervisors, may contribute. Mainstream media has been relying on Foxconn and Apple press releases for information, so I have pasted a link to a better, more detailed account of the deaths.
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Sadly, another suicide occurred the same day this protest occurred. When I first saw this video, I thought they were burning iPhones as an expression of disgust, but later I found out they were burning them as offerings to the dead. It's interesting to learn modes of protest from other cultures. The young woman on the megaphone is my friend Debby.
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Sadly, another suicide occurred the same day this protest took place.
When I first saw this video, I thought the students were burning iPhones as an expression of disgust, but later I found out they were burning them as offerings to the dead. It's interesting to learn modes of protest from other cultures. The young woman on the megaphone is my friend Debby.
An in memoriam page by Chinese university students:
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