Foxconn shut the door when NGOs demand for corrective actions

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2010/05/26

Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior Telephone: (852) 2392 5464 Fax: (852) 2392 5463 Email: sacom@sacom.hk Website: www.sacom.hk Mailing Address: P.O.Box No. 79583, Mongkok Post Office, HONG KONG

[Press Release] May 25, 2010 Hong Kong

Foxconn shut the door when NGOs demand for corrective actions

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Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) and other labour NGOs staged a protest outside Foxconn’s Hong Kong headquarters this morning to express our concerns over the high number of suicides at its factories. Disgracefully, Foxconn did not use the opportunity to make a public account on the issue, but shut its door to the protesters. Furthermore, Foxconn called the security guards and police to “receive” us.

The Taiwan-owned Foxconn is the largest electronic manufacturer in the world, and is a supplier of many renowned electronic brands like Apple, Dell, Nokia, HP, and Motorola. As of today, there are already 11 workers committed suicides and resulting 9 deaths within 5 months. Regrettably, the alarming figure cannot make Foxconn to reflect its management methodology. The company insists it is not a sweatshop and does not show sincere motivation to launch structural corrective plan. Therefore, the objective of today’s protest is to urge the company to (1) probe the reasons of the suicidal cases; (2) improve the working conditions at the factory, including offering living wage for workers; (3) facilitate the establishment of democratic workers organizations in the factory; and (4) invite labour NGOs for dialogue on its management methodology and other working conditions in the factory.

From our resent research outside a Foxconn’s facility in Shenzhen, most of the workers agree that they feel stress in the production lines. They are not allowed to talk to each other when working. Even in the same production line, workers do not have chance to get to know their colleagues. During lunch break or dinner break, some workers just finish their meals as soon as possible and take rest afterwards. Meanwhile, some workers do not know other roommates in dormitory for different reasons. Therefore, workers are isolated among each other.

Notwithstanding the overtime work at Foxconn is exceeding 100 hours per month, the workers cannot afford to buy the electronic products which they produce. To demand for a living wage of the workers, we burnt the paper i-Phones, a Chinese ritual to burn the effigies of real products for the deceased as an offering. Lastly, we have a march around the building where Foxconn’s office located.

============== Contact persons: Debby Chan (Tel: 852 - 6756 8964; Email: debby@sacom.hk) Cheng Yi Yi (Tel: 852 - 6012 0312; Email: yycheng@sacom.hk)

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