Xbox manufacturers threaten suicide over working conditions

[Hugabear]

http://seattle.cbslocal.com/2012/01/10/hundreds-threaten-suicide-at-microsoft-supplier-plant-in-china/

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Some 300 Chinese Foxconn employees who manufacture X-box 360 machines said they would throw themselves from their Wuhan, China, plant if demands for lost wages were not met.

China Jasmine Revolution, an activist revolutionary organization with a name borrowed from the Tunisian revolt that set off the Middle East unrest, reported that employees made their demands for a wage increase for 100 employees on Jan. 2.

Management at Foxconn — the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer and a crucial link in the supply chains of Apple, Dell, Nintendo and Song — responded with an ultimatum. Employees could quit with one month’s compensation awarded for each year with the plant or go back to working.

Many employees quit, but Foxconn allegedly dishonored the agreement and awarded former employees nothing.
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Just a sobering reminder how prevalent wage slavery is...really sad that Corporate America continues to encourage these types of conditions. Sure, they may say that they oppose wage slavery, but in their ever-increasing quest for higher profits, they are actually encouraging more and more of this.

[Lint Head]

1. The video game industry is just crass enough to creat a game about Chinese suicide.

[Warren DeMontague]

4. really?

know a lot about video games, do ye?

[Ecumenist]

7. I totally agree with that.

[arcane1]

2. Put bars on the windows. Problem solved.

Ain't the free market grand?

[wandy]

3. Is this what we mean when we say that we outsource jobs to improve their standard of living?

[Warren DeMontague]

5. obviously, the problem is video games

and not, say, corporate America's soullessness or the lack of labor rights in China.

[Ecumenist]

6. I'm not sure that I agree with the suicide part of it BUT-

I completely agree with the wage thing.