Xinhua News Agency – Top Brands: Tragedy of Labor Rights Repression in IBM China

Source: Xinhua News Agency – Top Brands  Author: Lin Fenghua, Xun Rong, Liu Ye, Chen Fan Time: July 7, 2011

On 16 June 2011, International Business Machines Corp (IBM) announced that it would commemorate its centennial with a focus on giving back to the community. However, while 400,000 employees of IBM were celebrating, a former IBM employee Yuan Yipeng who is known as “the first person who fought discrimination against people with depression”, decided to take his own life on this day by jumping into Huangpu River at 7 o’clock in the evening.

Before he set off for the river, he posted a message on his microblog, “I’m on my way.  I’m a nobody.  I can not understand the feeling that the (IBM) Chief Executive may have had when he walked past my mother who was kneeling on the ground, got into his car and sped off.  Do please pass on this message to him: I love my mother, as much as you do!”

Report of IBM China buying over the Stability Maintenance Office, for its business show purpose

Report of IBM China HQ, buying over with the Stability Maintenance Office, committed illegal conduction, for the purpose of its Centennial business show

China Fortune: IBM and Prejudice towards Depression

China Fortune– Appropriate Treatment of Depression Patients
Category: IBM and Prejudice towards Depression
Dr. Ling Long, psychologist, focus on charitable activity, working as both psychologist and authoring mental health related reports in media

No fears anymore, will fight for FREEDOM

The justice is not at the present

Timeline of the Discrimination from IBM China

Early 2007	Receiving depression treatment at Shanghai Mental Health Center (SMHC)
Jun. 2007	Informing Dept. Director Xie Dong about depression
2007.06.26	Xu Jane, HR Director of Shanghai Branch and Chen Tong, Medicare Director told Yuan to leave duty for treatment and promised a return in at least 2 at most 4 weeks.

Raman Media: IBM Advised to Treat its People with Humanism in China

As more information related to the Yuan Yipeng vs. IBM case is flowing in, the Beijing Yirenping Center, an NGO which works to promote the equality of socially vulnerable groups, has revealed startling facts about IBM’s unethical behaviour in China.

By Rakesh Raman

Xinhua News Agency – Top Brands: How Much IBM Can Get Away with is the Responsibility of the Media

Source: Xinhua News Agency – Top Brands Author: Sun Xiaotian Date of Article: August 11th, 2011

On the sixth month of this year, the anger-fueled incident of the attempted suicide of former employee, Yuan Yipeng, left a momentary imprint in the minds of the people. However, like the resounding waves as his body struck the water’s surface, the white caps (at once evident and rippling), soon died down and became calm once more. The hundred-year old Blue Giant, who appeared seemingly undisturbed by the event, handed the case over to third-party lawyers and washed their hands of the subject.

Raman Media: Why is IBM Angry with Yuan Yipeng of China?

It was Saturday, September 10, when I received the first e-mail of Yuan Yipeng from Shanghai, China. It was a pretty casual e-mail with the subject line: “Complaint with IBM China CSR.”

By Rakesh Raman