This week, a report surfaced that a group of 300 Xbox 360 factory workers threatened to commit suicide en masse over a labor dispute. The group took the rooftops, but was finally talked down. Here are the photos.
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Yesterday, Microsoft provided Kotaku with its account of what happened and what caused the suicide threats.
Does that make the fact workers apparently negotiated unpaid severance pay through suicide threats less shocking? Imagine the uproar if 100 employees at Microsoftās Redmond headquarters played this same game of chicken. Imagine if ten employees did. Imagine if one did.
There is a problem, and we are all contributing to it in one way or another. Companies like Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo are making hand over fist, and we are throwing fuel on this hellish fire.
Contrarians will say these workers have it better than those working in rural rice paddies. But writer Mike Daisey, who recently did a fantastic piece on Foxconn for This American Life, put it best: āWe sent these jobs overseas and didnāt send the protections with them. And itās not right.ā
Daiseyās piece is more centered on Apple via Foxconn, but stories of underage workers, over-crowded dormitories, workers making electronics by hand because its cheaper, factory floors and living spaces monitored with security cameras, security guards brandishing guns, and injured, deformed, and disfigured workers are both haunting and disturbing.
So are these photos.
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