labor - From today's Foxconn soap opera

If I would be writing soap operas, the ongoing Foxconn case would be a great inspiration. Yesterday, Bingfeng Teahouse translated the first comments by what is called "former Foxconn employees" who challenge the findings of the Apple investigation into their iPod producer. Today, he reports the China Busines News, whose two reporters got sued by Foxconn, now is getting their own dream team of lawyers together.

meantime, the journalist who has been sued by foxconn left her email at her sina blog in order to collect more facts concerning the ways that foxconn manage and pay its workers, within hours she received hundereds of emails, a lot of data and pics from self-proclaimed "foxconn employees".

It would have been better when they had been collecting this kind of material before they wrote the original support, but in many ways this looks like a very interesting and fast moving learning process. It looks that Foxconn got themselves so much publicity, they will now be forced to set up a trade union, although according to Bingfeng the company had already a branch of the Communist Party - who has not been doing that much then.