{"id":1648,"date":"2011-06-05T22:34:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-05T22:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2011\/06\/05\/workers-in-chinese-apple-factories-forced-to-sign\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:31:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:31:07","slug":"workers-in-chinese-apple-factories-forced-to-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2011\/06\/05\/workers-in-chinese-apple-factories-forced-to-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers in Chinese Apple factories forced to sign pledges not to commit suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\/p\/183372049\/workers-in-chinese-apple-factories-forced-to-sign-pledges-not-to-commit-suicide\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scoop.it<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoop.it\/t\/rights-liberties\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rights &amp; Liberties<\/a><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.scoop.it\/DxFPKIPeWjWIouQ09-THqDl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBXEejxNn4ZJNZ2ss5Ku7Cxt\" \/><br \/>At least 14 workers at Foxconn factories in China have killed themselves in the last 16 months as a result of horrendous working conditions.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1382396\/Workers-Chinese-Apple-factories-forced-sign-pledges-commit-suicide.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Show original<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Scoop.it &#8211; Rights &amp; LibertiesAt least 14 workers at Foxconn factories in China have killed themselves in the last 16 months as a result of horrendous working conditions.Show original<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14,"url":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2018\/07\/10\/ethiopia-touts-good-conditions-in-factories-for\/","url_meta":{"origin":1648,"position":0},"title":"Ethiopia Touts Good Conditions in Factories for Brands Like H&amp;M and Calvin Klein, but Workers Scrape By on $1 a Day","author":"aslam","date":"July 10, 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Globalization has come to Ethiopia in the form of the garment industry. 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