[nhannah]

For those of you not familiar with Chinese manufacturing this is essentially bullshit. If you walked in to the factory tomorrow offered way better working conditions and no overtime everyone would quit. This is purely about money, and most likely fueled by the Foxconn/apple publicity from last year. I worked at a Chinese contract manufacturer for six months on site and our biggest cause of workers quitting was lack of OT. The most interesting part of this article is which factory it is though, I am not sure of the percent of keyboards they make but I believe this is the fabled factory I was told about while in SE China that makes the majority of the keyboards in the world.

Just remember what happened at Foxconn before power to the people starts rolling off your tongue; they had the best working conditions in any Chinese factory(arguably), a number of suicides that was below the national average for the number of people working at the factory, but because they where Taiwanese owned the Chinese gov't let the media run with the Apple suicide link. Foxconn raised salaries and it all disappeared. This isn't a human rights situation, this is all about money on both sides.