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Workers threaten mass suicide! Now this is pushing the envelope! Read to the bottom where they mention "nets" to catch jumpers. Insane.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398713,00.as...
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398713,00.as...
Edited by Jimbeaux on Wednesday 11th January 18:40
All great nations were built on the backs of enslaved lower class workers. China will be/is no different.
It is only modern communications that allow this sort of thing to be seen more nowadays, but the British Empire was built on the backs of the working class, in probably far worse conditions than the suicide prone Chinese in that article.
I wonder if any of them actually own an Xbox?
It is only modern communications that allow this sort of thing to be seen more nowadays, but the British Empire was built on the backs of the working class, in probably far worse conditions than the suicide prone Chinese in that article.
I wonder if any of them actually own an Xbox?
King Herald said:
All great nations were built on the backs of enslaved lower class workers. China will be/is no different.
It is only modern communications that allow this sort of thing to be seen more nowadays, but the British Empire was built on the backs of the working class, in probably far worse conditions than the suicide prone Chinese in that article.
I wonder if any of them actually own an Xbox?
True. This is the inevitable crossroads I repeatedly mention regarding China. We all went through this as nations. Next will come organized labor for better treatment, conditions, and pay. Next will come union corruption and so on and so forth. Now, if the dictatorship decides to stomp things before organized labor evolves, China will be doomed as an economy in the future IMO. Something has to give, either fairer slices of the pie for everyone or government tightens grip.It is only modern communications that allow this sort of thing to be seen more nowadays, but the British Empire was built on the backs of the working class, in probably far worse conditions than the suicide prone Chinese in that article.
I wonder if any of them actually own an Xbox?
FarleyRusk said:
And 5% of their workforce resigns every MONTH!
Note the part where they can quit with compensation only to have that deal jerked out from under them. I wonder if that 5% is higher than the suicide rate. This is really horrible. I feel guilty for buying and XBox now. Almost.FarleyRusk said:
And 5% of their workforce resigns every MONTH!
On 400,000+ Which paradoxicaly means they must attract a huge number of applications each month to stay level.
In a country with a 4% unemployment rate I find that hard to get my head round. Unless those 4% are different to our type of unemployed!
MOTORVATOR said:
FarleyRusk said:
And 5% of their workforce resigns every MONTH!
On 400,000+ Which paradoxicaly means they must attract a huge number of applications each month to stay level.
In a country with a 4% unemployment rate I find that hard to get my head round. Unless those 4% are different to our type of unemployed!
FarleyRusk said:
And 5% of their workforce resigns every MONTH!
Some of that will be for seasonal factors. Many people leave the cities and return home at certain times of the year to help their parents with the harvest. Others will get better jobs and leave and some women may get pregnant. I doubt there is maternity leave so they just resign.
5% seems pretty low for anything untoward to be suggested.
DonkeyApple said:
Some of that will be for seasonal factors. Many people leave the cities and return home at certain times of the year to help their parents with the harvest.
Others will get better jobs and leave and some women may get pregnant. I doubt there is maternity leave so they just resign.
5% seems pretty low for anything untoward to be suggested.
60% workforce turnover in a year is low? Others will get better jobs and leave and some women may get pregnant. I doubt there is maternity leave so they just resign.
5% seems pretty low for anything untoward to be suggested.
MartyPubes said:
60% workforce turnover in a year is low?
Better than a curry house and lower paid with longer hours. These are drone jobs. There are millions of them. Turn up at a factory, do the same process all day for 12 hours go home.
People will just move around, leave one stool placing a small plastic thing onto a larger plastic thing and get a job in another identical factory placing a different type of plastic thing on something.
I bet uk call centres aren't far off these numbers.
Paddy_N_Murphy said:
We were working in a Shipyard in South Korea a good few years ago.
Local workers were up in arms - protesting with a sit in a the gates, disturbance and what-not.
Oh, and jumping off the Cranes.
Brown bread
I'll make them so sorry, for paying me sLocal workers were up in arms - protesting with a sit in a the gates, disturbance and what-not.
Oh, and jumping off the Cranes.
Brown bread
t wages that they'll be forced to pay me better one's by........... killing myself. DOH. MOTORVATOR said:
FarleyRusk said:
And 5% of their workforce resigns every MONTH!
On 400,000+ Which paradoxicaly means they must attract a huge number of applications each month to stay level.
In a country with a 4% unemployment rate I find that hard to get my head round. Unless those 4% are different to our type of unemployed!
They've very aggressively automating though, installing tens of thousands of robots.
The suicide rate amongst Foxconn's Chinese employees is way below the rate in the general population.
Deva Link said:
MOTORVATOR said:
FarleyRusk said:
And 5% of their workforce resigns every MONTH!
On 400,000+ Which paradoxicaly means they must attract a huge number of applications each month to stay level.
In a country with a 4% unemployment rate I find that hard to get my head round. Unless those 4% are different to our type of unemployed!
They've very aggressively automating though, installing tens of thousands of robots.
The suicide rate amongst Foxconn's Chinese employees is way below the rate in the general population.
Jimbeaux said:
Damn, it is rough when bragging rights revolve around which province has the lowest suicide rates.
I saw a documentary about how the single child family unit is stressed to the maximum about how well their kid does in school. There is a certain university entrance qualification exam they take, once, aged 16. If they pass, they go on to become a professional, but if they fail they are basically doomed to be a labourer forever.
Parents will pay a fortune for extra education to ensure their lone child makes the grade. They will have tutors sat next to them in classes to ensure they concentrate maximum energy on their studies. They will have hours of home education after school. And the under 16 suicide rate is supposedly the highest in the world, through sheer stress I guess.
And to think I basically flunked school though lack of interest....
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