Foxconn Bribing University for Interns
Students from Xi'an Technological University North Institute of Information Engineering are on the way to the Foxconn's Yantai factory. [Photo: people.com.cn]
Thousands of students from Xi'an Technological University North Institute of Information Engineering have been coerced by university authorities to be summertime interns at the Yantai branch of Foxconn Group, an electronics manufacturing giant, dfdaily.com reports.
'The college would refuse to award credentials and deduct the so-called 'skill credits' if we quit the internship,' said Wang Yiran, a sophomore at the institute who was picked as an intern this year.
The kinds of work being allocated to students are totally unrelated to their majors.
'I work 11 hours on average per day just tearing off the protective layers and logos on production lines over and over again. Many of my classmates are under the same circumstances,' Wang Yiran added.
The physically demanding labor has left six interns hospitalized in just one week. Two of them were diagnosed with complications of myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart muscle, and severely swollen lymph nodes.
According to a previous report from Huashang Newspaper, Foxconn would pay 150 yuan ($ 25 USD) per intern to an agent who introduces more than 50 interns to the company.
Zhang Jun'an, deputy director of the institute, alleges that the money they were paid by Foxconn went to cover students' expenditures during their internships.
Foxconn's coercion tactics to boost their labor force may be due to a shortage of willing employees, given the series of on-site suicides and poor labor conditions that have occurred at Foxcomm factories over the past few years.
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