Legal Niches

Taiwanese Scholars Apply Pressure to Foxconn

By james_fudge

A group of Taiwanese scholars are asking Foxconn Technology Group to end what it calls its "rigid and inhumane" management style at its massive manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, located in the southern part of China. The facility, which houses more than 300,000 people, has been under scrutiny after a string of suicides took place at the plant. Foxconn manufacturers iPods and iPads for Apple, and computers for Dell and Hewlett Packard.

Taiwanese scholars and labor activists have been critical of Foxconn's excessively fast assembly line and forced overtime policies. Foxconn has denied these allegations for years, but under pressure from business partners and the government, it recently announced two raises, more than doubling the basic worker pay in Shenzhen to 2,000 yuan ($293) per month.

Social scientist Yang You-ren at Taichung's Tunghai University began the Taiwan petition drive earlier this month in response to recent developments at Foxcoon. He and fellow academics say that they are appalled by Foxconn's labor policies. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 21, 2010 (boomark / email).