The Chinese government today expressed his concern about the wave of suicides in the factories of Foxconn, where nine young employees have taken their own lives. Earlier this week, company officials announced the hiring of 2,000 psychiatrists to avoid precisely the wave of suicides that were taking in its delegation of China.
It seems that mental health professionals are not being very effective, or have not arrived in time. The fact is, less than a week after the eighth worker ended their life at Foxconn, a colleague of only 19, has followed them.
Apple has already started its own independent investigation into the reasons that have prompted workers from the manufacturer to take this drastic decision.
Foxconn is a branch of Taiwan’s Hon Hai industrial conglomerate that produces many components for technology multinationals such as Hewlett Packard, Dell, Motorola, Nokia, Amazon and Cisco. There were also manufactured, for example, the three next generation consoles: Wii, Nintendo, PS3 (Sony) and Xbox 360 (Microsoft), as well as the famous Apple iPhone.
“We will open all our factories to the media around the world to see working conditions”, said Terry Gou founder of the Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn.
The motives remain a mystery, or at least contradictory. About 800,000 employees work for Foxconn in China, of which 400 000 are located in Shenzhen. Workers speak out against the harsh working conditions of the Shenzhen factory (long hours, low pay, poor communication, beatings …).
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