visitant to Taiwan ’s Computex trade show received a gaudy welcome on Tuesday morning as labor marriage and environmental groups protest against some of the biggest epithet in the IT industry .
About 30 protestors cry slogans and held up signs for about an time of day outside the show ’s Nangang Exhibition Hall , direct fellowship include Apple and Foxconn Electronics . Foxconn is one of the world ’s largest contract bridge manufacturers and makes products for companies such as Apple and Dell . It is under scrutiny stick with a string of apparent suicides among its production line worker .
“ They are at the peak of this industry , ” enunciate Lennon Ying - Dah Wong , general secretary of the First Commercial Bank Industrial Union and one of the protestors . “ They have earned a tremendous amount of money , but they do n’t care about the societal obligation , they do n’t care about the act upon condition of the workers . In many of their industrial plant it ’s a sweatshop , and we are very deplorable to see modern sweatshop . ”
Demonstrators protest against tech companies outside the Computex IT trade show in Taipei.
Demonstrators dissent against tech companies outside the Computex IT trade show in Taipei . The sign of the zodiac included pic of some technical school industry chief executive officer , including Apple ’s Steve Jobs , with the word “ Wanted ” under the picture . Jobs was labeled a “ leech ” on one sign .
police force assay to halt the unauthorised protest at several points but in the end allowed it to proceed until protestors go on about an time of day after it began .
The issue draw a cloud of photographers and TV cameras , which had been waiting nearby for the comer of Taiwan President Ma Ying - Jeou .
Foxconn , the trading name for Taiwan ’s Hon Hai Precision Industry , said that it would put measures in blank space to prevent suicides at its factories in China . So far , 12 Foxconn employee in China have essay to commit suicide , and 10 have deliver the goods . The most late attack came last week .
Several of its swelled customers , admit Apple , Hewlett - Packard and Dell , have read they will bring together to investigate working conditions at the factories .
