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Article

25 May 2010

Author:
Kathrin Hille, Robin Kwong, Financial Times [UK]

Hon Hai chairman rushes to Foxconn plant [China]

Terry Gou, founder and chairman of Hon Hai, the Taiwanese parent company of Foxconn, rushed to Shenzhen on Tuesday, in an attempt to contain the growing fallout for the group from a continuing string of suicides among workers…The move came after another employee at the plant died after falling off a building on Tuesday morning...Nine people have died in the series of incidents among workers...“...we are definitely not a sweatshop,” [Mr. Gou]...said…“A manufacturing team of 800,000 people is not easy to manage,” he added...[also refers to Apple]