Apple

TOday in class we learned about the factory Foxconn in Shenzen, China, which is one of the largest producers of Apple products.  This factory in particular has a suprisingly high number of suicides, 17.  This is astonishing and many are shocked.  All of these deaths have been workers who jumped off the top of the building to their deaths so Foxconn's solution was to put nets on the sides of their building to catch falling workers.  Manyare angry about this but the company argues that their suicide rate is lower than the national average of China.  Many are also upset with Apple saying they know about the child labor and suicides that go on but do not care about them.  Apple says that they are taking the matter seriously and are attempting to limit the hours Foxconn can force onto their workers.