CNN Interviewed Current iPad Assembler About Working Conditions At Foxconn

After The New York Times reported on the working condition of major Apple’s contract manufacturer Foxconn in China, other publications have been conducting their own investigations to find out more information. Today, CNN posted a video from a journalist Stan Grant who recently held an interview with the current employee of Foxconn and assembler of iPad display:

“I can’t bear it anymore. Every day was like, I get off from work and I go to bed. I get up in the morning, and I go to work. It became my daily routine and I almost felt like I was some kind of animal.”

In the beginning of the interview Grant showed Miss Chen (she requested to change the name) the finished iPad that she help assemble daily but had never used. She told CNN that her Foxconn chiefs informed her not to talk with the press as this will entail criminal liability according to law. Chen, a student of Chongqing university, said that she took the job for one month on promises of little overtime and great benefits.

Chen told about her experience on first arriving at Foxconn:

“During my first day of work, an older worker said to me, ‘why did you come to Foxconn? Don’t ever think about it again and leave right now’…Foxconn employees have a saying, “they use women as men and men as machines… there’s another way of saying it, ‘they use women as men, and use men as animals.”