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40% of employees do quit, but it is common for employers to sign 1 year contracts with employees such that they are paid bonuses (often amounting to far more than the actual salary, which is minimum wage) only at the end of the year.

In addition to the economic incentive to not quit, Foxxcon also practices illegal imprisonment and torture through its security team.

Foxconn Employee Reportedly Commits Suicide Over Lost iPhone Prototype [Updated] - Mac Rumors

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The women behind Mr. Guo Taiming.

He's a notorious womanizer, including Taiwan's famous actress and model Lin Zhiling.

If the CEO of the company is like this we can imagine what conditions are like. Ban this joke of a corporation, we aren't losing anything. Again this is not aimed at taiwanese companies in particular, ASUS has done great work and SMIC is 99% mainland by now anyways. this is aimed at Foxxconn specifically.
 
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the reason Foxxconn is not being expelled, however, is because of its boss Mr. Guo's connections with the Government of Guangdong Province and Shenzhen City. Again, if Foxxconn and Mr. Guo are innocent, they should be subject to an audit and those involved in illegal torture should be subject to criminal investigations.

However, this can only come from the central government since Mr. Guo has probably bought every single judge in Guangdong.
 
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40% of employees do quit, but it is common for employers to sign 1 year contracts with employees such that they are paid bonuses (often amounting to far more than the actual salary, which is minimum wage) only at the end of the year.

In addition to the economic incentive to not quit, Foxxcon also practices illegal imprisonment and torture through its security team.

Foxconn Employee Reportedly Commits Suicide Over Lost iPhone Prototype [Updated] - Mac Rumors

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The women behind Mr. Guo Taiming.

He's a notorious womanizer, including Taiwan's famous actress and model Lin Zhiling.

If the CEO of the company is like this we can imagine what conditions are like. Ban this joke of a corporation, we aren't losing anything. Again this is not aimed at taiwanese companies in particular, ASUS has done great work and SMIC is 99% mainland by now anyways. this is aimed at Foxxconn specifically.

You still cannot answer the big question. Why didn't the twelve employees quit instead of jumping out of a window? Until you can answer that question, I believe that it is only fair to wait for the results of the company's and/or government's investigation.
 
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ok, i'll say it more clearly then:

foxxconn employees are essentially imprisoned for their first year. they do not have the ability to leave. the company is not punished for this because local police and judges have been bought. end.
 
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ok, i'll say it more clearly then:

foxxconn employees are essentially imprisoned for their first year. they do not have the ability to leave. the company is not punished for this because local police and judges have been bought. end.

If what you say is true then I agree with you that Foxconn should be expelled from China. However, can you prove your claims to the reasonable satisfaction of objective neutral observers?

For example, do you have physical evidence such as a copy of an extremely unfair contract that "essentially imprison [them] for their first year"? Do you have video links (e.g. Youku) to videotaped testimony of former employees alleging that "they do not have the ability to leave" Foxconn? Can you provide links to newspaper articles that Foxconn has bought "local police and judges"?
 
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Foxconn Worker Commits Suicide After Chairman’s Visit (Update1) - BusinessWeek

"BusinessWeek
Thursday May 27, 2010

Foxconn Worker Commits Suicide After Chairman’s Visit (Update1)
May 27, 2010, 4:02 AM EDT
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Nine of the 11 incidents at the company before yesterday were by workers who’d been with the company less than a year, while six had not yet been employed for a half-year, Gou told reporters in Shenzhen yesterday.

Government agencies investigating the deaths haven’t found any links between the incidents at Foxconn and the company’s management methods, according to a statement posted on the Public Security Bureau’s website yesterday. Foxconn should hire more security guards and increase counseling services, it said.

“I offer my sincerest apologies to society, the entire public, all our employees and their families because we had no way of preventing these things from happening,” Gou said as he bowed at the press conference. “Will it happen again? From a logical, scientific standpoint, I don’t have a grasp on that.”
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Suicides among Chinese factory workers have more than doubled in the industrial south this year, compared with all of 2009, Li Qiang, executive director of New York-based China Labor Watch, wrote in a report yesterday, citing a survey of 201 workers. The survey excludes the deaths at Foxconn.
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The company is installing safety nets around its dormitory and factory buildings as a way to prevent more deaths.

“It may be a clumsy solution but we’re doing it,” Gou said yesterday.

--Editors: Stan James, Young-Sam Cho

To contact the reporter on this story: Mark Lee in Hong Kong at Wlee37@bloomberg.net; To contact the reporter on this story: Tim Culpan in Taipei at tculpan1@bloomberg.net;

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Young-Sam Cho at ycho2@bloomberg.net."
 
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Apple's Secrecy: Guards Attack Reuters Reporter At Apple Factory In China

Foxconn iPhone Suicide: Chinese Police Now Investigating Murder

What is foxconn afraid of? AUDIT FOXCONN, AUDIT ITS CEO, INVESTIGATE MANAGEMENT, INVESTIGATE SECURITY. if there's no problem then there's no problem. But I think the real question is, how many people in high places any audit will expose.

in fact, we should be questioning if these were actually suicides, or whether managers/security guards executed these employees.
 
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Hopefully, the 20% raise will reduce the number of suicides.

Hon Hai Gives Workers a Raise - WSJ.com

"* MAY 29, 2010

Hon Hai Gives Workers a Raise

By TING-I TSAI

TAIPEI - Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. has decided to increase wages for its factory workers in China by an average of 20%, but the manufacturing giant emphasized the raise isn't related to a recent spate of employee suicides.

Discussions about a wage increase arose because of concerns about a tight supply of workers in the southern industrial city of Shenzhen where Hon Hai employs more than 400,000 staff, and predate the wave of suicides at the company's giant Longhau factory there, said Hon Hai spokesman Edmund Ding.

"It is not because of the suicides," said Mr. Ding. "The discussion has been going on for a long time."

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Foxconn employees work on the production line at the company's factory in Shenzhen, China. (European Pressphoto Agency)

The company has authorized managers in different Chinese provinces to determine the size of wage increases. "It would be an average 20% increase, which means some areas will be more than 20%," Mr. Ding said. The company hasn't finalized the date to carry out the wage increases, but "it should be very soon," he added.

A day earlier another spokesman denied reports that Hon Hai Chairman Terry Gou had said the company would increase wage levels by 20%.

Hon Hai employs some 800,000 workers in several provinces in China. Workers at the Longhua plant are paid a base monthly salary of 900 yuan, or about $132, the legal minimum wage of Guangdong province. But most work overtime, which can pay 1.5 times the standard hourly rate.

Hon Hai's final decision on a wage increase was announced on the heels of a worker's suicide plunge on Wednesday and another's suicide attempt on Thursday. The 25-year old worker attempted to kill himself by cutting his vein Thursday, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. In all,13 people have either committed suicide or attempted to do so this year.

Citigroup Inc. estimated that the wage increases might cost the company 2.7 billion New Taiwan dollars ($84 million) a quarter, likely slicing 10-12% off operating profit. But some analysts said it is too early to estimate the likely profit impact, as most of the related details are not yet available.

In 2009, Hon Hai's annual net profit was NT$75.69 billion ($2.35 billion) on revenue of NT$1.96 trillion ($60.89 billion).

The recent series of suicides among Hon Hai's Longhua employees has brought scrutiny on the secretive company, which operates under its trade name Foxconn and makes personal computers and other gadgets for Apple Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Amazon.com Inc. and others. Several of those companies said on Wednesday they were investigating the incidents.

Critics say the spate of suicides reflects Hon Hai's poor working conditions, including compelling employees to work more than the legal number of overtime hours and creating excessive stress on workers with its military-style rigor. Hon Hai has defended its treatment of workers and their working conditions. On Wednesday, in an unusual gesture, the company gave a tour of its Longhua plant to a group of journalists, and announced plans to outfit its buildings with safety nets to prevent further suicide plunges. Mr. Gou told the media that the company would try its best to prevent more tragedy."
 
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well there's way more than one way to die, razors, trucks, water etc

its scary how many ways to (almost) painlessly kill yourself there are. i wouldn't want to kill myself with water/being hit by a car/knife. too painful.

better to just jump, or overdose on sleeping pills.
 
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http://www.plasticstoday.com/mpw/articles/taipei-plas-inmold-labeling-technology-2010

"Modern Plastics Worldwide

Taiwanese show they have the technology
By Stephen Moore
Published: May 27th, 2010

Last year was a difficult one for Taiwan’s plastics processing machinery sector, with machine shipments slumping by 30%. But machine builders did not take the year off when it came to developing new machines and technology, as evidenced by what packaging processors saw on display at the Taipei Plas show in March.

Taiwanese hot for IML
Judging from the activity on the show floor, Taiwanese machine builders think they are onto something with inmold labeling (IML).

Side entry was the name of the game with the IML system from Fu Chun Shin Machinery Factory Co. (FCS; Tainan, Taiwan). Previously, the company had opted for a traverse robot accessing from above. The A-Pack IML System employs a 200-tonne AF-200 press with a four-cavity tool to produce 2400 labeled PP containers per hour. Supreme Technic Package Co. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) engineered the IML system and provides the labels. “Our target is a 5-second cycle for four cups,” says John Hsieh, director of the planning center at FCS.

FCS dubs the drive technology deployed on its AF-200 as “tri-servo.” Hsieh explains, “A servomotor is employed for screw rotation, a second servomotor drives the hydraulic pump to save energy, and an accumulator with servo valve is used to attain an injection speed of 500 mm/sec.”

IML was also in vogue at Chen Hsong affiliate Asian Plastic Machinery (Taoyuan). Together with partner We-Technology Automation (also Taoyuan), the machine builder is offering IML systems for PP food containers based around its SM TSV Series machine with servo-hydraulic drive. “Four- to six-second cycle times are typically attainable for 500-ml and 1-liter containers,” says international sales director Aron Chao. “Another advantage of sourcing from us on a turnkey basis is lower labeling-film costs from Taiwan.” At Taipei Plas, Asian Plastic Machinery sold a system to Lebanese processor Hipack (Antelias).

Not to be outdone, Hwa Chin Machinery Factory Co. (Tainan) has partnered with Tang Well Co. (Tainan) to offer an IML system with a particular focus in promotional items employing 3D lenticular sheet film inserts. Each 3D label costs around $0.16. The IML system employs an HC Series SE (for “save energy”) machine from Hwa Chin.

Calcium carbonate stretches resin the extra mile
Loadings of up to 50% are possible in a twin-head, three-layer (A/B/A) blown-film line from Kang Chyau Industry (Taipei, Taiwan). The machine builder’s partner in this development is leading local resin supplier Formosa Plastics Corp. (also Taipei), which developed the Nano Calmalon nano-precipitated filler. Speaking to MPW at Taipei Plas, sales administrator Rachel Lin says that while predrying is required for such high loadings, lower loadings can be incorporated without the need for drying.

Formosa also offers U-Cal micronized calcium carbonate filler (1- to 2-µm particle size) that can be incorporated at up to 35% loading without drying. “We find most processors opt for a 20%-30% loading of U-Cal, which is a cheaper option than Nano Calmalon,” says Lin.

Kang Chyau’s KMTL-4045T line processes film in 400-mm widths with each die head extruding up to 32 kg/hr of HDPE, LDPE, or LLDPE film. “We sell the system for $72,000,” says sales manager Eric Chang.

Calcium carbonate is also an option in blowmolding of large HDPE containers using a machine debuted at Taipei Plas by Fong Kee International Machinery Co. (Tainan). Company president Larry Wei says the three-layer machine enables extrusion of a 70% core layer of recycled HDPE filled with 40% calcium carbonate, a 15% inner layer, and a 15% outer layer incorporating color masterbatch. “Filling with calcium carbonate enables a 20 deg C lower processing temperature, and output is also 20% faster,” says Wei. Power consumption is 87 kW/hr at 225 kg/hr output. Up to 144 20-liter jerry cans can be produced per hour. Servodrive for the extruders is offered as an option. Two machines have already been shipped to Malaysia. —Stephen Moore"
 
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We should support mainland China's industry. At the end of the day, Taiwan's technology can all be sold to the US. But the technology over here, stays here.

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Shanghai Colorful MRI Technology Corporations

another MRI manufacturer.

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China Ningbo XinGaoYi MRI Corporation

MRI technology is one of the areas where the West has a near monopoly - except for mainland China (not taiwan). The biomedical device manufacturing capability of a nation is a good indicator of its total industrial and scientific capability.
 
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