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May 5, 2011 06:00 pm PDT
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Foxconn workers forced to sign promise not to commit suicide due to working conditions
The Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations and Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (Sacom) have published a research report documenting the terrible working conditions at the giant Chinese manufacturing company Foxconn, best known for making the iPad and iPhone: " Excessive overtime is routine, despite a legal limit of 36 hours a month. One payslip, seen by the Observer, indicated that the worker had performed 98 hours of overtime in a month. " Workers attempting to meet the huge demand for the first iPad were sometimes pressured to take only one day off in 13. " In some factories badly performing workers are required to be publicly humiliated in front of colleagues. " Crowded workers' dormitories can sleep up to 24 and are subject to strict rules. One worker told the NGO investigators that he was forced to sign a "confession letter" after illicitly using a hairdryer. In the letter he wrote: "It is my fault. I will never blow my hair inside my room. I have done something wrong. I will never do it again." " In the wake of a spate of suicides at Foxconn factories last summer, workers were asked to sign a statement promising not to kill themselves and pledging to "treasure their lives"....
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