China is the country where Foxconn has the most factories and the most employees, but unfortunately it is the country where there are also the most problems. Although those from Foxconn claim that their employees have good wages and work in safe conditions, 200 employees of a factory they threatened with suicide due to disputes regarding wages earned at the company's factories. Those from Foxconn claim that new employees were involved in the incident and that everything has already been resolved following negotiations, but it is clear that there are very big problems since 200 people climbed a building in a desperate gesture to get something.
Workers at a Chinese factory owned by Foxconn, Apple Inc's main manufacturer, threatened to jump off the roof of a building in a protest over wages. The protest happened in the central city of Wuhan at one of Foxconn's plants. It involved some 200 workers, the Hong-Kong based activist group Information Center for Human Rights said. A spokesperson for Hon Hai Precision Industry, the listed unit of the Foxconn group, said the protest concerned workplace adjustments and involved workers new to the plant. He said it was not a strike.
"The dispute has already been settled after some negotiations involving the human resources and legal departments as well as the local government," the Taipei-based spokesman, Simon Tsing, said.
For Foxconn, these problems are frequent and are generally resolved quickly, as its employees have enough experience in "dissolving" them. Unfortunately, Apple loses credibility when it says that "life is rosy" at Foxconn, and we notice that people are willing to take their lives because of the bad way they are treated, but profit matters more.
