Foxconn, the contract manufacturer that assembles Apple’s iPhones and iPads, has to deal with workers committing suicide. Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, replies that the Chinese factory isn’t a sweatshop. “It’s a difficult situation. We are trying to understand right now, before we go in and say we know the solution”, Jobs said. However, Apple doesn’t suffer the situation, it even overtook Microsoft as the world’s largest technology company by market value.
Jobs claims that’s not important to him, “it’s not what makes you come to work every morning”. But for being CEO of such an important company in the world, his reaction on the suicide-matter is rather passionless. According to Dries’s blog on Chinese workers, these suicidal actions weren’t the only problems on Chinese working conditions. Although those facts suggest that Apple doesn’t care about their workers, the suicide rate amongst employees at Foxconn appears to about half the rate that one might expect for workers of that age in China.
Tim Van den Berghe
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