{"id":30460,"date":"2012-01-10T15:04:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T13:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30460"},"modified":"2012-01-11T16:23:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:23:51","slug":"hundreds-of-chinese-xbox-factory-workers-threaten-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/30460-hundreds-of-chinese-xbox-factory-workers-threaten-suicide","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds of Chinese Xbox factory workers threaten suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Monday (2 January 2012), more than three hundred employees at a Foxconn Xbox<\/a> manufacturing plant in Wuhan, China threatened to chuck themselves off the building after a wage dispute went bad.<\/p>\n

I don’t get to write sentences like that every day.<\/p>\n

According to Taiwanese news site Want China Times, the factory workers had applied for a wage increase, and been told to quit with compensation or go on working at the same wage.<\/p>\n

Most of the employees reportedly opted to quit, but the company cancelled the deal and refused to pay up.<\/p>\n

\"Foxconn<\/a>

Foxconn production line<\/p><\/div>\n

So the workers responded as any reasonable, sane workforce would – by lining themselves up on the rooftop, and threatening to jump off into the eternal abyss.<\/p>\n

The mayor of the town was called in and managed to talk them down later the same night.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Foxconn has been in the news about this kind of stuff – back in mid-2010, eighteen employees attempted suicide, resulting in fourteen deaths and prompting the company to put up suicide-prevention netting around its buildings.<\/p>\n

\"Foxconn<\/a>

Foxconn suicide prevention netting<\/p><\/div>\n

Shortly afterwards, at a Foxxconn Factory in India, 250 workers were hospitalised after a pesticide spraying gone awry.<\/p>\n

Source: Want China Times<\/a> (via Kotaku<\/a>)<\/h5>\n

Related Articles:<\/h3>\n

Another Foxconn Employees dies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

250 Foxcon employees poisoned by pesticide<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wage disputes are serious business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":30469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[31,1911,1910,1912,79],"class_list":["post-30460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-china","tag-foxconn","tag-india","tag-xbox-360"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30467,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30460\/revisions\/30467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}