Another death at Foxconn, CEO makes statement

hello

What about suicides at other large Chinese factories that employ 100,000+ employees, and who may or may not make stuff for Apple?

These companies need to wake up and maybe start thinking about having factories in...I dunno..America???

"...but reports say the company is asking employees to work 60 hours of overtime a month (far over the legal limit of 36 hours of overtime), and paying only about $132 a month."

That is sickening. These companies are grossing billions, yet these issues occur and statements are the only thing given. Bring some jobs to America, pay a decent wage and people won't jump off the roof. Greed is awesome!

now as I just checked, there've been 13 suicides now, the last of which was hours ago (I'm Chinese, so I guess my news should be more up to date)

this is absolutely abnormal

Another jumper this morning..

Total: 12

Just another reason why I am tired of companies dealing with overseas companies. Make it in North America, charge more and we will still buy it and you will still make profits. Stop being so greedy ya bastards. I worked for companies that had over 100,000 employees with no suicides. Then again they were not overseas companies.

Profit takes top priority. Nothing new, they're just another large corporation.

This is tragic, i've been following events at foxconn very closely over the past weeks and months and it's becoming increasingly evident that there is something seriously wrong with the culture in their factory township(s). Although it seems hard to pinpoint exactly what, comparatively foxconn's conditions and treatment of workers is much better than many Chinese companies.

Whatever the cause, the sooner something is done to rectify the situation the better.

Really wish the jounrnalists and bloggers would mention the fifty some other gadgets not from apple this company makes. This isn't a sweat shop of apple iPad makers, all technology comes out of that place. MacBooks are made right next to vaios, Dell, hp, Moro, nokia etc

Foxconn has nearly 500K employees. To accurately determine the suicide rate, you have to know how many employees work at this particular plant. According to the AP, the plant has 300K employees.

The plant is on track to 20 or more suicides by the end of the year so that would be about 30 suicides. Will that be enough to make callous commenters care?