It's disgraceful what they pay their people! How can you live on this?

[Grace62]

Grateful11 wrote:
Can't back any of this up but here goes:

http://www.outsaurus.com/2011/08/01/outs...0000-jobs/

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/05/f...de-pledge/

Thanks. "Outsaurus" is a pretty great name!
NPR was talking about the mass suicide threat at Foxconn again this morning. I've heard numbers ranging from 100 to 400 in terms of how many people were threatening to kill themselves if they didn't get pay increases. I find these stories odd and the discrepancies troubling in terms of whether to believe them or not. Tough to get reliable info out of that country anyway. I want to know that Apple, Microsoft and other companies using them for labor are over there in person inspecting very carefully. It's the least they should do for their customers and their own consciences.