At Foxconn there have always been problems with employees, whether it was about suicides caused by the extremely busy schedule or too low wages, we rarely hear good things from Foxconn. Unfortunately, the following news are no exception because a publication the local claims that thousands of students of several universities in China were forced to assemble terminals iPhone 5 at Foxconn because the company does not have enough employees to take on this task. University classes would have been interrupted for the students to reach Foxconn, where it is estimated that 10.000 employees were needed to produce the new iPhone.
THOUSANDS of students in an east China city are being forced to work at a Foxconn plant after classes were suspended at the beginning of the new semester, it has been revealed. Students from Huai'an in Jiangsu Province were driven to a factory in the city run by Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Company after the plant could not find enough workers for the production of Apple's much-anticipated iPhone 5, they said in online posts. A student majoring in computing at the Huaiyin Institute of Technology said 200 students from her school had been driven to the factory. They started work on the production line last Thursday and were being paid 1,550 yuan (US$243.97) a month for working six days a week, she said. Several other students from at least five colleges backed up what she said, saying they were being forced to work for 12 hours a day.
The students would be paid approximately $250 per month, they would be required to work 6 days a week, each working day lasting 12 hours. Although some students were not satisfied with the effort to which they are subjected, only a few published online information about this event, but many accept to work there. If the information is true, then we see again that in China things are not quite as normal as they are presented to the wider world, and big companies have the power to stop the academic year to assemble various products.
