Foxconn Suicides Eng Sub 1/3

[origamilover4u]

wait...i wish I could understand what it is saying...but I can't seem to get the translated dialogue on my laptop

[OrchidDada]

So sad. Why can't we learn to take care of one another.

[monsieurhassan]

Just found out about this, this is just terrible, this company deserves to be closed down . .. and just when I had finally decided to buy an apple product

[mrs341341]

Stop buying this crap to be produced which cost the blood of people. Think of tomorrow will have a Foxconn his country and close to suicide can be your son.we have a duty think of the people of the world as brothers and not as strangers!

Brazil always!

[biggerben2010]

FUCK you apple.

[mrRocstar96]

fa shi ching chong ching chang falalalala chi chi chi chuch chu chuk no no ri riri ris fala lan lan chaw cha lan chaw tang yuan putang ina

[applepiewithtoast]

I got my Iphone4 today, high5!...... No?......

[JEIWILBER]

What the Fuck is happening in there ? ? ?

[BigHashTouraj]

go to deals extreme.com they gor better shit than apple

[toughbutfair32]

What is with the chinks and high suicide rates? Americans have been dealing with shitty workplaces for decades, and our suicide rates are nothing remarkable.

Anyway, I can't help but notice a tinge of poetic justice here, we outsource our manufacturing industry to China, and it turns out it makes them miserable. Poor babies, you're breaking my heart.

[zeland3]

@toughbutfair32 you are a fucking madman. please do some research. or grow a heart.

[zeland3]

@toughbutfair32 you are a fucking mad man. do some research please. or grow a soul.

[shfbdfi1273]

Boycott Apple

[liningwzgl]

Yes,one of the victim is from my county.This is a crazy world.

[sczpizjuan]

The family of descent worker who're crying really tear me apart. What the hell is going on in China? I really do hate the chinese nationalists that always desviate the public opinion to abroad disdaining such a domestic task that's much more urgent for the millions lives of NONG MIN GONG. They represent fully enough what NAZI has done in the 30's.

[poopaholictar]

I can't figure out if this is more funny or sad. . . . .

[zeland3]

@poopaholictar then only the lord can help you.

[websuspect]

Im going to watch all these videos. Its tragic that int he wold economy and the loss of US jobs and push for cheaper labor. People here using jobs and humanity to hegemony and dystopia. People in china loosing hope becoming industrialized.... to the beat of the drum of the new world order.

[1poissonfish]

when was this aired?

[xingfenzhen]

@1poissonfish

May 15th 2010

[funky20002000]

I think the problem is due to the recent rapid development of the whole China. Everything happen so fast and in such a overwhelming way on one hand they are being paid below USD300/mth on the other hand they are assembling iPhone and iPad. How can they balance? China maybe rich in cash but far away from what it take to be a real "Developed" country...

[MusicEqualsMemories]

China, in it's rush to modernize it's work force and join, rather belatedly, the industrial revolution committed the faux pas of not reading George Santayana. You had nearly a century to study the mistakes made in Europe, America and Japan but still your greed (socialism and greed...strange bed fellows) or cheap labor drives your workers to poverty and disillusionment. Sounds like you need a workers revolution...oh yeah you had one. Welcome to the oppressive bourgeoisie kinda irony huh?

[lezsmokehaze420]

everytime sum1 buys an iphone a foxconn employee jumps off a roof

[mavishill]

@imyourhustler not just apple products. they also make Dell, HP, Intel, Nokia, Playstation, Three sixty, Wii, Motorola and Kindle.

[snaginlol]

they don't mind there workers jumping they probably have another worker clean it up.

[TimeManInJail]

dumbass after the 2nd one.. someone got use their head!

[xakep1998]

Okay ,,,,,,,what a hell is going on here ? Here is states if 2 a like incidents accure within 10 years most likely place will get closed or something ....FOXCONN have 9 deaths within short period of time ? And listen to people who knew victims they said just before they had plans to future and goals and no depression .... I say something is wrong with this picture.

[Aphasia17]

@xakep1998 the chinese are a smart people and they aren't good with repetitive, boring work.. they need to use their brains.. here in the states we rely on mexicans to do our mass manufacturing labor, and mexicans are good at that, they can work day in day out doing the same thing and it doesnt bother them in the least

[jas16899]

Another company to boycott... If you're going to send unethical behavior to China and hope we are just too racist to care, then fuck you Foxconn.

[randomdude3824]

@dtadeo2006 yeah they could but they actually prefer working for them over farming and there's actually a pretty long line waiting for more openings. (CNN)

[dtadeo2006]

i don't understand... couldn't they just get out of there if they wanted to?

[Proplytiri]

There is a Foxconn motherboard in my PC right now. GOOD GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE!?

[randomdude3824]

Thx for the info m8, actually finally found news that a lot of them choose to work 15hrs/7 days for family's sake.. Messed up..

[ladybug3049]

not even close

the work 34 hours

for 160 a month

[Chronolyse]

Great. Now Apple joins the ranks of Nike and McDonalds. Enjoy your products.

[kclau1]

@afnikos Doom. End of discussion.

[randomdude3824]

@fandanstan I don't know how many hours they work. That's actually why is was asking cuz I can't seem to find out anywhere myself lol

[mailtsauce]

@randomdude3824 I think its 12-14 hours a day. 6 days a week.

[xingfenzhen]

@randomdude3824

if you could read chinese (or could stand the crappy translation of google) try browse though chinese job sites such as zhaopin dot com

[pvgomer]

@randomdude3824 between 12hr to 15hr work days.

[julybih]

애플 좋은 이미지였는데, 남의 나라노동자는 어떻게 되던지 상관없다는건가.. 

[Darkhwang12]

Umm. Lock the fucking doors?

[CamdenBloke]

Thanks for uploading this report. I just learned about this. Al Jazeera is sympathetic to the company. I'd like to see France24 or BBC pick this up.

[BloodRayne001]

@TheOllson

The planet gave birth to humanity, we [i]are[/i] the planet, in unison.

[randomdude3824]

Does anyone actually know what their weekly hours are? I saw this on cnn and it's so tragic how china treats it's lower class..

[fandanstan]

@randomdude3824 Weekly hours?  Dude, somebody recently died of exhaustion after working a straight 34 hour shift. I am apprehensive about knowing what their weekly hours are.

[randomdude3824]

@fandanstan lol I doubt that's nothing more than a rumor for a couple of reasons. Anyways, do you know there average work week at all?

[fandanstan]

@randomdude3824 No clue. Enlighten me?

[Immaculite]

doesn't happens just here.. happens in the schools also. My damaged chinese ex gf is at Wanli Uni, for the few years she has been there, there has been some suicides and suicide attempts. too much pressure on the people. the system there has them like fuckin ROBOTS.

[overthemoutain1]

26.05.2010 a young male employee was falledn down upon the ground before the supermarket " Da Rong Fa" in LH factory of SZ Foxconn

25.05.2010 a 19years old male employee was fallen down on the

ground in GuanLan factory of ShenZhen Foxconn

21.05.2010 a 21years old male employee was fallen down from

building in LongHua factory of ShenZhen Foxconn

[overthemoutain1]

14.05.2010 a 21years old male employee (who is from AnHui Province and whose family name is Liang) jumped off from FuHa-domitory in LongHua factory SZ Foxconn P.s.: 4 cut-wunds on his body & where he was fallen there was a knife.

11.05.2010 a 24years old female employee (whose name is Zhu ChenMing) was fallen down from her leasing room in 9th stock in LongHua SZ Foxconn

06.05.2010 a 24years old male employee (whose name is Lu Xing)

was fallen down from balcon in LH factory SZ Foxcon

[overthemoutain1]

07.04.2010 a 22years old young male employee was fallen down from building in ZhangGe village in GuanLan factory SZ Foxconn

07.04.2010 a 18years old female employee was fallen down from domitory building in GuanLan factory ShenZhen Foxconn

06.04.2010 a 18years old female employee (whose name is Rao Shu Qin) was fallen down from C8-domitory-Building in GuanLan factory ShenZhen Foxconn

[overthemoutain1]

29.03.2010 a 23years old male employee was fallen down from domitory building in LongHua factory ShenZhen Foxconn

17.03.2010 a new female employee (whose name is Tian Yu) was fallen down from domitory in 3rd stock and was injured.

23.01.2010 a 19years old was fallen down from domitory-building at about 04:00 from building. Videos floated out in internet which indicate that he has wunds on the body and where he was fallen there is blood.

[wantbbtdivorce]

14th jump already

[ash3rr]

I wish I understood why suicide is so normal and seemingly "acceptable" in Asian countries.

[bryanlobson]

Good, I love to use the slave iPhone

[bryanlobson]

Nothing wrong, FOXCONN did nothing wrong. Suicide is the only way to escape from Hell

[gipoquinto]

CARI INDUSTRIALI:

siamo nella merda per colpa di voi industriali da 4 soldi e per tutti i soldi che lo stato (NOI!) vi ha dato per tenere in piedi i vostri baracconi fallimentari.

MARCEGAGLIA, fallo tu un sacrificio: METTITI A PECORA!

[paolito777]

GLOBALIZAZZIONE....,.,.che storpia invenzione.

[whatelse041]

BOYCOTT APPLE until things change, to show them we care about these inhumane measures to make apple rich as hell!!! FUCK the industries hunger for money! normal, young people's lives should be respected. FUCK apple's demands and all the other shitty companies that call themselves FAIR! not until we see changes!

[invisiblegal12]

Mr CEO, กรรมจะตามสนองนะค่ะ (what goes around comes back around) =D

[invisiblegal12]

huh! All the damn Taiwanese boss wants is MONEY for himself! How nice=D? MONEY FOR buying expensive condos in Taipei and for his doggy wife to use. Treating/Bullying the workers like coakcroaches/ants, like people working in concentration camps! กรรมมันจะตามสนองนะจะบอกให้.... บาปจริงๆ=D

[Link0ot]

What's the name of the song that Lu Xin sang in the video at 2:29?

[ChinaBreakingNews]

@Link0ot

it was "your looking"(Ni De Yang Zi) composed and first sung by Taiwanese pop musician LUO Dayou.

[Link0ot]

@ChinaBreakingNews Thanks you.

[dansu92833]

Can you believe what I just saw the other news. Foxconne CEO said: Our suicides rate are nomal, their is nothing need to panic. He describe in china about 10000:10 poeple suicide every months, but in Foxconn they are more then 35000 employee so their rate should be "60" people suicides every months.

In other world "What we need to worry? we only have 12 people die so far"

Typical Taiwan-China CEO.

[xingfenzhen]

12th jump on May 26th. The CEO finally acknowledged that something is wrong.

.caijing.com.cn/2010-05-27/110­447450.html

[cr9527]

@xingfenzhen

There is nothing wrong. Avg suicide rate in China is around 14-12, while Hong Kong is around 8-9 per 100,000 people. In either case, a company with 500,000 employees with only 10 suicides a year is well below the suicide rate of the national statistics.

[S06WSW9]

Sorry to hear that and sorry to say that...

The only way to stop this thing in this planet is to stop American money printing.

Trust me. Otherwise, no balance between lazy American labor (even not all) and too hardworking Chinese labor (even not they want). US suppose to be a poor country now this moment at 2010.

[S06WSW9]

Sorry to hear that and sorry to say that...

The only way to stop this thing in this planet is to stop American printing money.

Trust me. Otherwise, no balance between lazy American labor (even not all) and too hardworking Chinese labor (even not they want). US suppose to be a poor country now this moment at 2010.

[papalolita]

Rules and regulations aside, isn't it the fault of all of us who want those shiny new tech toys for cheap? What is a dead slave or two when we can get our toys?

[harleykman]

Boycotting? STRAWMAN argument. I never said we should boycott China. I said the USA should use its immense power to pressure China to raise its minimum wage to something reasonable (say $100 a week)

.

China would rather comply than pisoff the US government.

[papalolita]

@harleykman

I think the US bends over for China, not the other way round. Piss off China too much, and China will simply stop buying US debt.

You overestimate the power of America.

[iamfotomatik]

Foxconn โรงงานที่ผลิตอุปกรณ์ไอทีชั้นนำ­ของโลกมากมาย หนึ่งในนั้นคือ Apple

แต่จะมีใครรู้บ้างว่าพวกเค้าแทบ­จะไม่มีเวลาพักเลย แถมค่าแรงที่พวกเค้าได้นั้นแค่ 4,xxx บาท/เดือนเท่านั้น

[harleykman]

Alternatively we could repeal Workers Rights Laws here in the USA. Treat us like they treat the chinese. How would you like that?

[xingfenzhen]

@harleykman

actually I would like the no layoff (un-faulted terminations) provisions in Chinese labor laws, however this also meant vast majority of positions offered are contract positions,

Alternatively, for salaried positions in the US, overtimes are not only not paided 1.5 times regulate rare. It's not paid period. which is why I give up my job at Fry's to work in China. The world are very complicated, especially comes to laws. which is probably why lawyers are paid too much.

[xingfenzhen]

For example India, which has one of the toughest labor laws in the world. It drives many business into the informal sector, hence outside of law.

so the best solution this is

1. Reform the union. The unions in China, are paid via taxes and the management. People work for the hands that feed them, and you can deduce the result.

2. Allow more companies to spring up, thus increasing competition in the labor market. right now large company are acting like monopsony in the labor market.

[slytown]

@xingfenzhen I think you're right. Their has to be some power place in the supply side of the labor market in addition to more competition, at least against Foxconn.

[WOSP92]

che problemi pazzeschi in cina....

[harleykman]

These Chinese workers earn a mere about $30 a week

. I used to earn $200 on my minimum wage job. Why does the US continue trading with this country? As part of our trade talks, we should demand a reasonable minimum wage

, or else cutoff trade.

[bakatoroi]

@harleykman Good luck discussing that with the lobbyists. China is a key partner for the USA, so that's not gonna happen unless it becomes cheaper to give better wages to the Chinese. Also, take in account that stuff is much cheaper in China, so those $30 a week are better than what it sounds like (I agree it's still a lame wage, though)

[xingfenzhen]

@bakatoroi

$30 a week works out to be 800 yuan a month. If you look at my labor shortage in southern china video, you'll see that wage won't get many workers or retain them. More over thing are a lot cheaper in China. For example cellphone charges typically run 50 yuan to 200 yuan(7-30USD). More importantly, beer cost 2 yuan per 600ml bottle, works out to be 30 cents..)

Though most of the despair not come from the current situation, but lack of a real future. Because it is now a dead-end job.

[harleykman]

@xingfenzhen In the Time article is says it costs 2 months wages to buy the iPhone the chinese are assembling (i.e. about $250). How are things cheaper?

[Punax]

@harleykman

"why does the US continue trading with this country?"

FINE. Boycott iPhone, buy America. Don't trade with that country..... is that supposed to help these workers? And how? By taking jobs AWAY from them, as if their lives are not bad enough?

I respect you having a noble motive, but boycotting is the most hypocritical approach in this kind of situations. And it actually hurts the people you are trying to help.

By the way, you can do much worst in China than $30

[8n4n08]

English subs?...

[bakatoroi]

@8n4n08 This video has subs... If they don't appear, check the red "CC" icon, and then select "English." Don't choose the "Translate Captions (Beta)" option, since that is an automated translation and will probably not make sense at all.

BTW, great video.