Egregious violations at factory (5.000 workers) manufacturing cell phone covers: workers consistently working over 220 hours of overtime for the past few months (six times the 36 hour overtime legal limit); minimum daily factory stay is 12 hours; 14-15 hour work days; some work for 16 hours/day; base salary (1100 RMB -$176); workers dependent on overtime to make a living-wage; 200 student workers in the summer.
Three hundred protesting staff at Foxconn factory that builds Xbox 360s threaten “mass suicide” if their demands over unpaid wages and higher pay are not met.
Workers orchestrate 24/7 sit-in at paper products factory, protesting unfair compensation after an abrupt ceasing of operations.
Workers making plastic toys on 18-20.5 hour shifts; mandatory 7 day workweeks; 30 days a month; pay below minimum wage; 16 ½ cents an hour on average; organizing a union is strictly prohibited; 20 people share one dorm room.
Very low wages, 15.5 hours work/day, 30 days/month in peak season, 13.5 hour work per day under normal conditions, use of toxic substances without protective equipment, workers trained to lie when inspected by auditors.
16.5 hours work a day during peak seasons for workers, all standing, 30 days/month. 15.5 hours of work under normal conditions. Extremely low wages. Heavy workload. Humiliating and abusive management.
Hundreds of workers have been demanding collective negotiation with management over unpaid compensation.
Workers protest after learning that the company – a major supplier of product casings to Apple – planned to move operations without giving workers reasonable compensation.
“Company “boss” ran away, leaving workers with three months of unpaid wages and four months of unpaid insurance contributions.”
Unpaid overtime or unpaid bonuses, illegal deductions from wages and forced overtime worked via various threats of sanctions.
