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06 Jun 2010 20:12

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Tech, World: Foxconn’s suicide prevention salaries go way up – again!

  • 33% the immediate increase in salaries for Foxconn workers announced last week, in wake of a bunch of suicides
  • $300 the monthly amount they could be making in three months – $75 a week, or double their current salaries source
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02 Jun 2010 11:46

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Tech: The raise for Foxconn workers a lot higher than we thought

  • 30% raise to help limit workers’ suicidal thoughts source
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17 Mar 2010 22:06

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Tech: Your iPhone probably made some Chinese factory worker sick

  • It would be good for the people who use those phones so happily to consider the sacrifice we made.
  • A 21-year-old former factory worker • Talking about the hell that she and others have been through personally because of poor conditions at a factory which she worked, which specialized in Apple and Nokia phones. The factory was using a toxic chemical, n-hexane, a fast-drying cleaning solvent which they didn’t have the proper permits to use and made the workers gradually sick. First it was nothing, then they felt tired, then their fingers went weak, then they fainted. The thousand-screen-a-day quota added up. Some have had to stay in a hospital for eight months. Holy crap. source
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18 Feb 2010 11:02

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Biz: Jobless claims, prices increase, make investors super-depressed

  • 31,000 new jobless claims this week, which was way higher than expected
  • 1.4% increase in farm and factory prices, caused by higher energy costs source
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26 Jul 2009 22:01

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World: Johnnie Walker causes a massive protest akin to the Iran election

All these laid off liquor factory employees need to remember that they’ll make it through the day with some help from Johnnie Walker Red. source
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09 Jun 2009 15:23

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U.S.: Yikes: Here’s what happens when people snap into Slim Jims too hard

  • 21 people were injured after an explosion at the factory that makes Slim Jims. source
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28 Apr 2009 10:55

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Offbeat, World: Chomp, chomp: Man eats his own finger in act of protest

  • It had been years since some of his co-workers had been paid. An official for a union in Serbia got a point across in a pretty insane way – to show how much his fellow union members at the Raska Holding textile factory were starving because of unpaid wages, he cut off, then ate his own finger. Zoran Bulatovic explained his logic: “We, the workers have nothing to eat, we had to seek some sort of alternative food and I gave them an example. It hurt like hell.” Ya think? source
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