Hum, check out the suicide rate per country:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
Per 100,000 people US = 11.1, China = 6.6.
Ann Richmond
Pat O'Brien wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/media-gets-its-facts-wrong-working-at-foxconn-significantly-cuts-suicide-risk/1356
>
> 11 suicides from a pool of up to 800,000 employees is well below
> China's reported average (in 1999 at least, although I would imagine
> not much has changed) of 11 suicides per 100,000 people.
>
> You might want to read more than one article before posting this
> sensationalist bullshit.
>
> -pat
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Paul Saenz
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Apparently, conditions are so bad at Foxconn that 11 workers committed
> suicide last year! Apple, IBM, Cisco and Microsoft all send their work
> to Foxconn. These companies may distance themselves from Foxconn, but
> I'm pretty sure that the conditions in the new factories that are
> contracted to do their work will be pretty much the same.
>
> It's amazing that it took a year and a half and 11 suicides before
> they decided to put up a safety net. That tells me that they didn't
> really care, but since word was getting out they had to make
> themselves look good. Since American workers have to compete with
> these guys as the economy swirls down the commode, I wonder if
> Americans will be willing to take slave labor jobs when it comes to
> the point of desperation?
>
>
> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/career/suicides-at-iphone-manufacturing-plants-cause-corporate-change/3111?tag=nl.e101
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