(Updates with suicide threat in third paragraph.)
Jan. 12 (Bloomberg) — Foxconn Technology Group, maker of Apple Inc.’s iPhone and parts for Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox game console, said 150 workers at a southern China factory protested against a plan to transfer them to another business unit.
The Jan. 4 incident in Wuhan was resolved the same day after talks with executives and local government officials, the Taiwanese company said in an e-mailed statement today. Forty- five of the protesters resigned, Foxconn said. Microsoft said in a separate e-mailed statement that the dispute was not related to working conditions.
Foxconn, the world’s biggest contract manufacturer of electronics with 1 more than 1 million employees in China, raised wages and improved worker welfare in 2010 after at least 10 employees committed suicides. The Wuhan protesters threatened to jump from the roof of a
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