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The Fair Labor Association audit in 2012 used interviews with 35,000 Foxconn employees. [142] In January 2012, about 150 Foxconn employees threatened to commit a mass suicide in protest of their working conditions. [147] One worker said the protest resulted from 600 workers being moved into a new "unbearable" factory location. [148]
Employees (mn) State-owned 1 Walmart United States: 2.1 2 Amazon United States: 1.54 3 China National Petroleum China: 1.08 4 State Grid China: 0.87 5 Foxconn Taiwan: 0.76 6 China Post Group China: 0.75 7 Accenture United States: 0.72 8 Volkswagen Germany: 0.68 9 United States Postal Service United States: 0.57 10 BYD Company China: 0.57
Employees were made to sign a waiver stating that Foxconn would not be made liable if any individuals were to die by suicide. [41] This, however, caused more trouble for Foxconn, leading them to eventually retract the document. After they removed the waiver, they installed safety netting around the facility to prevent future suicides. [41]
Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, is building a display screen manufacturing plant in southeastern Wisconsin. Audit faults plans to credit Foxconn for work outside state Skip ...
Chinese state media reported Monday on a mass brawl among up to 2,000 workers at a Foxconn plant in Taiyuan, in Shanxi province. Foxconn's Taiwanese parent company Hon Hai said in a statement that ...
Foxconn Technology Group will hire as many as 400,000 workers in China in the coming year. The company, which was rocked by a string of employee suicides earlier this year, also plans to build ...
Foxconn is the largest private employer in China with 1.4 million employees. With over a million members, Foxconn Trade Union is the world's largest trade union and also a company union dominated by management. It was established in 2006 in Shenzhen, China.
Science and Technology Park (深圳富士康龙华园区) is a technology park in Longhua Town, Shenzhen, in the south of China, that is Foxconn's largest factory site worldwide. It gained notoriety in 2010 after a spate of suicide attempts , many of them successful, by employees at the Foxconn facilities in the area, totaling 15 attempts that ...