Apr 1, 2013 · At least one employee at Foxconn, the manufacturing giant best known for making Apple products, has reportedly jumped from a factory roof in Shenzhen, China due to concerns over job security.

The Foxconn suicides were a spate of suicides linked to low pay and brutal working conditions at the Foxconn City industrial park in Shenzhen, China, that occurred alongside several additional suicides at various other Foxconn-owned locations and facilities in mainland China. [1]

Jan 10, 2012 · Around 300 workers at a Foxconn plant climbed on to the roof and threatened to commit suicide over pay-cuts, conditions, and lack of compensation. Is enough being done for the workers?

Apr 27, 2012 · Workers at a Chinese factory owned by Foxconn, Apple Inc.'s main manufacturer, threatened to jump off the roof of a building in a protest over wages just a month after the two firms announced a landmark agreement on improving working conditions.

Jan 11, 2012 · However, a report in Taiwanese newspaper Want China Times alleged that it was instead a pay dispute that led to 300 workers threatening to jump from the top of a factory's roof. The paper claimed that Foxconn had refused to give employees a rise on 2 January and told workers that they could leave, if they wished, with a month's wages as ...

Jan 12, 2012 · Earlier this month, workers at Foxconn's Xbox factory in China grew disgruntled after their requests for pay raises were denied. On January 2, the employees reportedly said they would stage a mass...

Jan 8, 2018 · In the beginning of the following year, a group of 150 workers in a Foxconn factory in Wuhan, in Hubei province, China, protested against working conditions by standing on the roof of a...

Apr 27, 2012 · Workers at a Chinese factory owned by Foxconn, Apple Inc's main manufacturer, threatened to jump off the roof of a building in a protest over wages just a month after the two firms announced...

Feb 28, 2011 · Foxconn and its partners—notably Apple—found themselves defending factory conditions while struggling to explain the deaths. "Suicides in China Prompt Damage Control," blared The New York Times.

Jan 13, 2012 · More than 100 workers had protested on the roof of a three-story building at the company's factory in Wuhan, China, with several threatening to commit suicide if their demands were not met.