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Ninth Suicide At iPhone Factory

Posted by Soulskill on from the need-a-union-app dept.

shar303 writes "A ninth employee has jumped to his death at Taiwanese iPhone and iPad manufacturer Foxconn, China's state media reports. The 21-year-old worker was the eighth fatality this year. This raises questions as to whether the shiny finish of the latest gadgets available from mega corporations are tarnished by such information, and whether the mistreatment of workers deserves to be highlighted when considering such firms."

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  1. Sympathy... by Bobfrankly1 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    A ninth employee has jumped to his death at Taiwanese iPhone and iPad manufacturer Foxconn, China's state media reports.

    Using the mac OS has me wanting to do this at times, but it's usually all in jest. Usually...

  2. Your new iPad is shiny... by Loki_1929 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    ... because we polished it with the tears of our dead workers' families.

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    -- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."