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Subject: 300 Foxconn Workers in China threaten to commit suicide
Basically, working conditions.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Foxconn-Suicide-Apps-Xbox-SOny,14470.html

This is your perfect free market economy in action.

 

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Subject: 300 Foxconn Workers in China threaten to commit suicide
OFN, and Ron Paul is already on this.

 

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Subject: 300 Foxconn Workers in China threaten to commit suicide
Give those jobs to the OWS folks

 

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Subject: 300 Foxconn Workers in China threaten to commit suicide
It wouldn't occur to them to take the money they spend in 'suicide nets' and give it to the employees, would it? rolling_eyes

 

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Subject: 300 Foxconn Workers in China threaten to commit suicide
The works at Apple's factory at age 26 look like they are 65 - F* apple !

300 is a drop in the bucket there maybe 60,000 workers there.

 

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Subject: 300 Foxconn Workers in China threaten to commit suicide
should of let em do it or give them all pay cuts, since they value life so little over there anyways

 

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doesn't matter as long as we get our Xboxes...

 

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They are really having a hard time figuring out how strikes work.

 

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Subject: 300 Foxconn Workers in China threaten to commit suicide
Reapist posted:
They are really having a hard time figuring out how strikes work.


There was a thread about that on some forum somewhere.

 

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Subject: 300 Foxconn Workers in China threaten to commit suicide
JD_HOGG posted:
Reapist posted:
They are really having a hard time figuring out how strikes work.


There was a thread about that on some forum somewhere.


Well I'll be damned!

 

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what does China know, they still eat soup with sticks?

 

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Subject: 300 Foxconn Workers in China threaten to commit suicide
-Mithan- posted:
This is your perfect free market economy in action.



China

Free Market


Pick one.

 

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Subject: 300 Foxconn Workers in China threaten to commit suicide
by the time they hit the ground, there will already be 30,000 newborns..

 

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Tipztoe posted:
by the time they hit the ground, there will already be 30,000 newborns..

 

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Subject: 300 Foxconn Workers in China threaten to commit suicide
Why should I care there are 80 billion of them

 

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