10-01-2012 16:28
El 2 de enero de 2012, 300 empleados de Foxconn que manufacturan las Xobx 360 amenazaron con suicidarse. Al parecer la empresa les dijo que podían quedarse por el mismo sueldo o irse y cobrar la compensación. La mayoría decidieron irse, pero Foxconn no les pagó la compensación. Esto causó que la consola dejara de producirse temporalmente. Al final, gracias a la intervención del alcalde, el grupo de 300 empleados decidió no suicidarse el 3 de enero.
"[url Kotaku[/url]"]On Jan. 2, over 300 employees at a Foxconn plan in Wuhan, China threatened to throw themselves off a building in a mass suicide. Foxconn makes Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony products. These workers manufacture Xbox 360s.
According to Chinese anti-government website China Jasmine Revolution (via Watch China Times), the workers were protesting denied compensation they were promised.
On Jan. 2, the workers asked for a raise. Foxconn told them they could either keep their jobs with no pay increase or quit and get compensation. Most decided to quit with compensation. However, the agreement was supposedly terminated, and the workers never received their payments.
Website Record China reported that the uproar the incident actually caused Xbox 360 production to be temporarily suspended.
The mayor of Wuhan intervened to talk down the group down, and on Jan. 3 at 9pm, the group of 300 decided not to jump, ending what could have been a deadly game of chicken.