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To: VC of Bath University
Sweat Shop Free Bath
We call on our university to join Electronics Watch and the Workers Rights Consortium, to start helping to end the suicide epidemic in their electronics supply chain and to draw up and commit to a more rigorous ethical procurement policy.
Why is this important?
Between April 24 and May 14 2013, three young workers at Foxconn electronics
factory in Zhengzhou, China, jumped from buildings to their deaths. 24 others have committed suicide since 2010 because of appalling conditions, such as being sacked if you speak at work, and ritual humiliations in front of hundreds of colleagues.
Foxconn are making computers for Dell, Apple, Acer, HP and others. Computers for universities are made in factories like this.
A new organisation, Electronics Watch, will work with public sector bodies and
electronics workers, to investigate factories making our computers, and start to improve rights and working conditions. The Workers Rights Consortium is a similar body with a focus on the clothing industry.
