{"id":579442,"date":"2010-05-26T10:49:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T14:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/?p=13267"},"modified":"2010-05-26T10:49:51","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T14:49:51","slug":"another-suicide-at-foxconn-19-year-old-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579442","title":{"rendered":"Another suicide at Foxconn: 19-year-old employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Another-suicide-at-Foxconn-19-year-old-employee.jpg\" alt=\"Another suicide at Foxconn 19-year-old employee\" title=\"Another suicide at Foxconn 19-year-old employee\" width=\"275\" height=\"123\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13275\" \/>The Chinese government today expressed his concern about the wave of suicides in the factories of <strong>Foxconn<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>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 <strong>Foxconn<\/strong>, a colleague of only 19, has followed them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apple <\/strong>has already started its own independent investigation into the reasons that have prompted workers from the manufacturer to take this drastic decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Foxconn <\/strong>is a branch of Taiwan&#8217;s Hon Hai industrial conglomerate that produces many components for technology multinationals such as Hewlett Packard, Dell, Motorola, Nokia, Amazon and Cisco.\u00a0There 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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will open all our factories to the media around the world to see working conditions&#8221;, said <strong>Terry Gou<\/strong> founder of the Taiwanese electronics giant <strong>Foxconn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The motives remain a mystery, or at least contradictory. About 800,000 employees work for <strong>Foxconn <\/strong>in China, of which 400 000 are located in <strong>Shenzhen<\/strong>.\u00a0Workers speak out against the harsh working conditions of the <strong>Shenzhen <\/strong>factory (long hours, low pay, poor communication, beatings &#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>Related posts:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/world\/2010\/labor-activists-blame-foxconn-world%e2%80%99s-largest-electronics-maker\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Labor activists blame Foxconn, world\u2019s largest electronics maker'>Labor activists blame Foxconn, world\u2019s largest electronics maker<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/world\/2010\/apple-hewlett-packard-and-dell-could-change-manufacturing-sites\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Dell could change manufacturing sites?'>Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Dell could change manufacturing sites?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href='http:\/\/www.sevensidedcube.net\/technology\/2010\/free-android-phones-from-adobe-and-google\/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: Free Android Phones from Adobe and Google!'>Free Android Phones from Adobe and Google!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/sevensidedcube\/OXLF\/~4\/W2cmRyCh0ao\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}