Foxconn Workers Exploited in India, Activists Say
Foxconn hasn’t exactly been enjoying the media attention it has garnered this year. Most of that stemming from a rash of Chinese worker suicides and allegations of poor labor practices. Now activists say that Foxconn workers in India are being exploited as well although Foxconn has not responded to these assertions so we are only hearing one side of the story at this point.
Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) has objected to the arrest earlier this month of about 319 workers of Foxconn International Holdings at a factory in Chennai, south India. The workers were striking for a wage increase among other demands. The basic salary for Foxconn production line workers in Chennai is only about US$106 a month, SACOM, a non-profit organization in Hong Kong, said in a statement on Tuesday.
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