The reason why Foxconn jumped 13 times in a row

I am afraid of being caught if I speak out! I dare not say it. After I said it, I had to jump too

The truth about Foxconn’s “sweatshop” revealed

In less than half a year, 13 Foxconn employees jumped off the building in a row, which sparked a stir Thousand layers of waves, "sweatshop" has once again become synonymous with Foxconn.

For a company where employee suicides occur so frequently, it is definitely not the case that all those who want to commit suicide gather at Foxconn. What causes so many abnormal deaths? After in-depth investigations by reporters, the secrets of Foxconn’s “sweatshop” and the despicable crimes of killing employees were finally revealed.

Refuse to sign contracts with employees and adopt a talent outsourcing system

Yang Bin, who has worked at Foxconn for three years, said that it is very easy for Foxconn to recruit general workers.

The Foxconn factory has a good reputation among workers in Shenzhen, and its treatment and benefits are relatively good. We learned that the basic salary for general workers at Shenzhen Foxconn is 900 yuan, with overtime pay of 6 yuan/hour on weekdays, 8 yuan/hour on weekends, and 12 yuan/hour on holidays. Foxconn has built a dormitory near the factory where 8 workers can stay for free. Foxconn also has a canteen where workers and other employees eat for free from Monday to Friday. Since there is no need to spend money on food and housing, a general worker can earn more than 1,800 yuan a month, including overtime pay, and some even more. Foxconn's factories in other parts of China also rank among the highest among similar electronics factories in terms of general worker income.

“So all migrant workers want to join Foxconn.” Yang Bin said. However, it is difficult for ordinary workers to get into Foxconn’s door by relying solely on their own strength.

Senior staff at Foxconn in Shenzhen did not admit that Foxconn would deal with intermediaries. Ms. Qi, an engineer at Beijing Foxconn, said that eye-catching "Do not deal with intermediaries" notices are posted in the employee canteen of Beijing Foxconn. However, in Beijing's Yizhuang Development Zone, many labor agencies use the Foxconn brand to recruit production line workers. Wuhan Guangna Enterprise Management Consulting Co., Ltd. and Langfang Changkang Rihui Company are both labor agencies, but their leaders said they have long-term cooperative relationships with Foxconn and can bring applicants into the company and provide employment opportunities. Mr. Su revealed that individuals are not allowed to enter the factory area. Foxconn has strict requirements. However, we are familiar with the people in Foxconn’s human resources department and can bring people into the factory area. The job introduction was successful. “In return, the applicant has to pay 200 yuan to us, and another 200 yuan to relevant Foxconn personnel.” Mr. Su said.

“This is Foxconn’s internal and external collusion to earn applicants’ hard-earned money.” Yang Bin said that everyone knew it.

Foxconn usually signs a contract with an intermediary first, and then the intermediary signs employment contracts with ordinary workers who want to join Foxconn. On the wall of Longhua Foxconn in Shenzhen, you can see various recruitment advertisements posted by agencies everywhere.

It is understood that most of Foxconn’s general workers are recruited through intermediaries. Of course, there are also some general workers who Foxconn has cooperated with some labor export departments in the mainland to help the local government solve the employment problem of the surplus labor force in one go in the name of supporting the mainland. “Employees in these areas are simple-minded and easier to manage,” Yang Bin said.

Foxconn has also formed cooperative relationships with some colleges and universities in Guangxi, Hunan and other places. Every year, these schools send some students to Foxconn for internships, and Foxconn only has to pay low-cost internships for them. The salary is "about 1,000 yuan per month." Mr. Yang said.

It is precisely because of Foxconn’s recruitment system that it created the conditions for Foxconn to start large-scale recruitment just three months after laying off 40,000 people. It also provided the conditions for the compensation for the Sun Danyong incident. The aspect is covered with a veil of "looking ugly". During the outbreak of the global financial tsunami, Foxconn was able to "recruit and leave" a large number of employees, which is indeed not an ordinary skill.

Withholding wages from employees, half of their income depends on overtime work

On July 15, 2009, according to foreign media reports, Apple admitted in its 2009 Supplier Social Responsibility Progress Report that its There are situations in Chinese suppliers where employees work overtime, withhold overtime pay, and pay is lower than the minimum wage.

The report claimed that in last year’s audit, 45 of the 83 Chinese OEMs that produced iPhones and iPods did not pay their employees overtime wages, and 23 paid wages lower than the local minimum wage.

Apple spokesman Steve? Steve Dowling said that Apple began to review the labor treatment of suppliers in 2007 and has taken a number of measures to improve the situation of migrant and contract workers in its Chinese foundries. Currently, Apple has asked the foundries to adjust their measures. , ensuring employees’ legitimate income.

Judging from the current situation, it has become a common phenomenon for electronic foundry factories in coastal cities to withhold wages from employees.

An employee of an Apple iPod OEM factory in Shenzhen who was consulted by Bitnet revealed that the employee had worked in this factory for four years. During the four years, the employee worked almost more than 12 hours a day. There is generally only one day off per month, but the factory has never paid the employee overtime pay. Last year, the financial crisis began to affect the factory, and it is now difficult for the employees to get their full monthly salary of 810 yuan.

Although the report did not name the company, as the largest OEM factory for Apple iPods in China, Foxconn is obviously the first to bear the brunt of everyone's malicious speculation.

Nanfang Daily reported that the Longhua Foxconn Technology Park in Baoan District has about 330,000 workers, accounting for 3//4 of Longhua District’s population of more than 400,000. In addition, workers from factories such as Guanlan and Futian Free Trade Zone are included , Foxconn has more than 400,000 employees in Shenzhen.

The north gate of Longhua Science and Technology Park is called Chaoyang Gate. The gates are either surrounded by highway guardrails or guarded by a moat. There is a barbed wire fence on the inside of the moat. All employees enter by swiping their work cards. , people without work cards can only enter with special approval and under the guidance of internal personnel.

After visiting Foxconn Longhua Technology Park in September 2009, "Wall Street Journal" reporter Jason Dean compared it to the "Forbidden City." More than 300,000 frontline workers from all over the country work in this "Forbidden City". However, its continuous falling incidents have caused endless debates about this mysterious "castle". Why do Foxconn employees often fall from buildings? Especially in the past month, there have been 6 incidents of employees falling from buildings reported by the media.

So, how do the general workers working in this science and technology park evaluate the frequent falling incidents? How are their work and living conditions? Our reporter tried to present the true ecology of this group through front-line visits. The company's internal regulations prohibit people from walking more than 3 people side by side.

Among the many so-called "exposing Foxconn insider information" posts on the Internet, one of the most hilarious ones is: In Foxconn's factory, 3 people are not allowed to walk together. People walked side by side because Foxconn is said to be the most densely populated factory in China. In addition, former Foxconn employees also revealed that Foxconn fired all its cleaners and used factory employees as volunteers to clean dormitories and surrounding areas. Although these reports are unconfirmed, Foxconn has never directly denied these claims. Which is right or wrong, only time will tell.

Disguised cold-blooded layoffs

In November 2008, Foxconn Technology Group (hereinafter referred to as Foxconn), the world's largest electronic product OEM, was shrouded in suspicion of disguised layoffs, and Terry Gou was once again pushed into The vortex of disguised layoffs storm.

Affected by the sharp fluctuations in the global economy, Foxconn, which was once regarded as a specimen of China's manufacturing industry "collectively surviving the winter", has been rumored to be laying off employees recently. In late October, Foxconn urgently denied that it would lay off 100,000 workers in mainland China, saying that "all Foxconn campuses are in normal production status." A person in charge of Foxconn's media office also told the "Daily Economic News" reporter: "There is no (layoff plan) yet."

However, many Foxconn employees said that Foxconn has recently laid off a large number of disguised layoffs. Last week, reporters launched multiple investigations in Shenzhen. Many employees said that Foxconn has recently strictly controlled overtime and proposed a suspension of pay and job retention plan. Many Foxconn employees were wandering outside the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen. What happened afterwards also proved who was lying.

A management employee who resigned from Foxconn revealed in his blog several tactics used by Foxconn to disguise layoffs:

1. Unpaid long leave, unpaid leave .

2. Unpaid education and training takes up employees’ time for free, such as military training, exercises, morning meetings, etc.

3. All probationary employees will be dismissed regardless of their performance.

4. Move employees out of familiar environments and force them to resign themselves.

5. Carry out overtime control and reduce monthly income.

6. Cancel or reduce the current month’s income.

7. Conduct a recheck on academic qualifications, experience, and qualifications, and take the opportunity to fire employees.

8. Major demerits and penalties are frequently recorded in disciplinary assessments.

9. Reduce other benefits. 10. Other means, such as refusing to approve leave, etc.

Fires have occurred due to potential safety hazards in the working environment

Just two examples:

1. On April 10, 2009, Foxconn’s Guivares, Mexico, factory Destroyed in a fire, the factory was located in a 900,000-square-foot building and was said to produce computers for Dell and Hewlett-Packard.

Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry Group) stated in a document submitted to the Taiwan Stock Exchange that the fire at its Mexican factory will not have an impact on the company's business and supplies.

Foxconn stated that the fire at the Juarez factory in Mexico has been successfully controlled and no casualties were caused. All losses will be compensated by insurance companies. At the same time, Foxconn also stated that the accident will not affect product supply.

2. At about 8 a.m. on April 20, 2009, a fire broke out in a factory building of Foxconn Company in Longhua Street, Baoan District. The fire was controlled by the fire department within an hour. Foxconn said there were no casualties.

The reporter arrived at the scene around 9 o'clock. There was heavy smoke and no open fire in a factory building in Area E. Five fire trucks were involved in putting out the fire at the scene. The fire did not affect the normal production of nearby factories. A Foxconn employee who works in the 10th factory building in Area E said that when he was getting ready to go to work around 8 o'clock, he saw a large amount of thick smoke and some open flames coming from the first floor of the 16th factory building in Area E. Then employees in the factory building All were evacuated urgently. The employee said that the factory where the fire broke out was a production workshop for mobile phone casings.

Yesterday afternoon, Foxconn’s media office reported that the fire only involved a corner of the production line in a small electroplating workshop of the company. Employees were evacuated promptly after the incident. Except for some employees who were choked by smoke, there were no casualties or major injuries. Property losses occurred, but the company's normal production and operations were basically not affected. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

From the aftermath of these two fires, we can see that Foxconn’s response is: it will not affect product supply! Although there were no casualties, wouldn't it have any impact on the psychology of the employees? Since 2003, more than 400 Foxconn employees have switched jobs to BYD, and some even took away a batch of confidential documents. Is this not because Foxconn is too concerned about the physical and mental health of its employees?

Failed to abide by industry ethics and ignored the contract to cancel the lease of the shuttle bus

The shuttle bus driver hung a banner on the car to protest Foxconn's lack of integrity

On the morning of March 16, 2009, on Hundreds of Foxconn employee shuttle buses gathered at Longhua Plaza in Bao'an District, Shenzhen City, expressing dissatisfaction with Foxconn and its vehicle-affiliated company's failure to continue to perform the contract. Foxconn believes that it acted in full compliance with the contract and has sued the company that owned the vehicle to the court to await judgment.

These buses provide pick-up and drop-off services for Foxconn employees. In August last year, Foxconn's new employee dormitories were used and many vehicles were notified to stop operating. According to the driver, Foxconn stopped paying wages to the out-of-service vehicles once in December last year. Driver Mr. Liu said: "Many people bought their cars with loans, which cost more than 9,800 yuan per month. If they don't pay the monthly payment for three months, the bank will close the car."

The author really feels sorry for this matter. There is nothing to say. When did "honesty" become a taboo in doing business?

Foxconn employees use raw maggot eggs for breakfast

Master Liu works at a food company in Yinhu Industrial Zone, Tangxia, Dongguan. He is a cake chef and is mainly responsible for making Cakes and bread etc. Master Liu said: "The breakfast made of raw maggot eggs is specially made for Foxconn's breakfast."

You won't know if you don't see it, but you will be shocked when you see it.

Master Liu led reporters to visit the factory. Master Liu said that he has been in this factory for more than a year and has witnessed the entire process of food production in the factory. The eggs are all maggot-infested and spoiled, and have been sterilized at high temperatures. It should be no problem. Some are washed clean, and some are not washed clean and maggots fall in, so there is nothing you can do about it.

It is these maggot-infested eggs that are made into fragrant bread, which is provided to Foxconn employees for breakfast every day. Due to high-temperature sterilization, no one has been found to have food poisoning. Later, Master Liu led the reporter to the kitchen and saw eggs lying everywhere. Some were rotten and had maggots. The maggots were crawling on the eggs, and the prepared bread was neatly placed on the iron rack. (No one cleans the iron racks).

Master Liu said: "When they first came to this factory, they also reported it to the factory director and supervisor, but the leader told them not to worry so much and just do as they were told." Foxconn and the manufacturer are colluding.

Master Liu said: “Everyone knows from top to bottom that the factory uses substandard raw materials.”

Foxconn has already greeted our leaders before each inspection, so I just told them to hide it all, because it was all covered up above.

When the reporter was about to leave the factory, he was discovered by the factory director, who locked the door and refused to let the reporter leave. After negotiation, the reporter was able to leave. (Shenzhen TV)

Pre-job training: just a decoration

During the investigation, many employees told reporters that pre-job training does not have much practical significance and is more of just a walk-in. What can be learned from this process and just a few lessons?

A boy who was chatting with his colleagues told reporters that although there are many telephone numbers behind the (Foxconn) company’s factory name, such as the employee service center, the union chairman’s hotline, and the employee complaint center, no one would call these. Telephone. "I have never seen that colleague go to them for consultation. Calling them will not solve the problem at all."

The male colleague next to him directly told the reporter that the people who jumped off the building were not mentally healthy. Jump off a building for small things. He believes that today's young people are too psychologically fragile. Foxconn's counseling has a limited number of people and limited effects, making it difficult to help employees who are in trouble.

Only one girl from Henan told reporters that their department will organize learning under the leadership of the team leader in their free time, explain some of the psychological knowledge they have learned to their colleagues in the group, and then discuss it through group discussions form to communicate and share. She believes that the effect of this is not bad, mainly because it increases the opportunities for everyone to communicate. Some people will tell everyone about some of the problems they encounter and listen to their colleagues' opinions, which helps to relieve stress.

According to Rui Xinming, Minister of Health of Foxconn, they have cooperated with Shenzhen Second People’s Hospital and Guanlan People’s Hospital to set up three psychological consultation points in Longhua and Guanlan factories, inviting patients twice a week Experts from the two hospitals came to Foxconn for consultation, and only five or six employees communicated at each time. Among them, Guanlan’s psychological consultation point is a national-level project. "Two hours per person, the demand of employees is still very large, and it can be saturated every time. However, resources are limited, and now we can only do this."

After work, employees mainly use the Internet and Shopping

In Longhua Science and Technology Park, there are many sports venues for employees to exercise and relax. However, most workers interviewed by the reporter said that they go there relatively rarely.

Every day from 5 pm to 8 pm, Foxconn employees get off work in batches, and they pour out of the door like a tide. For many ordinary workers who don’t have mobile phones, every second counts at the few nearby chat bars, because if you arrive late, you have to wait in line for a long time. After get off work, everyone wants to chat with friends or family.

Although the outside of the factory is very lively, there are not many places to play. The ice rink outside the Qinghu employee dormitory is one of the few fun places that the reporter saw. You can play for 6 yuan on weekdays and 8 yuan on weekends. Some boys take their female colleagues or girlfriends there to play when they are off work or on weekends. In their opinion, skating is a very fashionable sport. Inside, they feel like they have wings and can fly freely. Several boys told reporters that surfing the Internet is their main activity outside of work. "When I first came here, I didn't know many people, so I often went online when I wasn't at work. I spent up to six or seven hours a day at the Internet cafe. Now it's less. Sometimes I only go there for six or seven hours a week. Now I go I go shopping and play cards with my fellow villagers, but not much. I feel like shopping is tiring and expensive,” said one of the boys.

Several girls looking at jewelry in a small store told reporters that in fact, girls are almost the same as boys, they just go shopping online. There are countless large and small Internet cafes around Foxconn, and more than 90% of those who go online are Foxconn workers. “When I’m not shopping online, I sleep in the dormitory.

I worked the night shift for a period of time. After getting off work every morning, I would go back to the dormitory to sleep until 6 p.m., and then I would get up and start the night shift at 7:30 p.m. "said a girl. The impact of falling from a building: As long as you are not around people, you will not have any psychological shadow

At the north gate of Longhua Science and Technology Park, three Foxconn employees from Hunan were shopping and heard a reporter mention " With the word "falling from the building", I couldn't help but ask in surprise, did someone fall from the building again today? The girl told reporters that at Foxconn, they often heard people falling from the building, but fortunately, they were not her colleagues or friends around her.

The reporter said that there have been many incidents of employees falling from buildings recently. As a general worker, will there be psychological pressure and will this girl's life be affected?

Said: "As long as the person who dies is not someone you know, there will be no psychological pressure or psychological shadow. Besides, usually when you hear someone falling from a building, it is always at night. After dawn, the body has long been moved away. What about other people?" Won't see it either. The boy next to him interjected: "Everyone is already used to it." ”

In the Qinghu employee dormitory area near Foxconn Longhua Science and Technology Park, several general workers working the night shift were playing in the skating rink next to it. A girl from Hubei said that she just came to Foxconn in March this year At work, I once encountered a female colleague crying in the corridor. The others were shocked when they saw her. They were afraid that she would lose her mind and jump off the building, so they immediately sent her back to the dormitory until her mood stabilized. Go to work.

A Shaanxi college student who works in management at Foxconn told reporters that he has been working in Longhua Park for three years, and he often hears about falling from buildings. However, he believes that ordinary workers. The pressure should not be great, but he couldn’t explain why 6 people fell from the building in just one month.

According to Foxconn, among the recent frequent casualties caused by jumping from buildings, the age of the employees involved was unknown. Most of them are between 18 and 23 years old, and only one is 28 years old. Most of these employees have been working for less than 6 months, and some have been in the factory for less than 1 month.

Liu Kun, director of the Media Office of Foxconn Group, said that when these young people enter Foxconn, they will undergo pre-job training. However, suicide is a very accidental thing, and there are many reasons that occur over time. Before joining the company, employees need more social understanding. Caring. Liu Kun also admitted that the accident happened not long after new employees entered the factory, which shows that Foxconn does not care enough about their humanity. It also shows that suicide is a social problem and employees may encounter pressure from all aspects of society before committing suicide. p>

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Are the high-level officials of the country paying attention to the frequent incidents of people jumping off buildings? I would like to ask, who were the people who helped the motherland conquer the country? Or were they the capitalists? ? Now that the country cannot enter, how do you treat the second generation of farmers and migrant workers?

Foxconn says that employees are the foundation of the company, do you pay attention to their spiritual life besides squeezing their youth? What else can you do?

13 jumps reminds me of the five heroes of Langya Mountain. The difference is that they were forced to go to Langya Mountain by the Japanese, but now the 13 compatriots are forced to go to Langya Mountain. On the rooftop.

I want to say to the dead compatriots that your sacrifices will not be in vain. The eyes of Chinese netizens are sharp, and we will seek justice for you.

I also want to say that. To the current Foxconn employees, please terminate your life. Life is precious. Be strong and don’t use death to vent your dissatisfaction with the company and society. You should stand up and not fall in a pool of blood.

I want to say more to the Chinese people. It is said that we never flinched from the millions of Japanese invaders back then, but now the enemy in front of us is fear and some of the scum of society