300 employees of Chinese manufacturing giant Foxconn, which makes computer and electronics products for customers including Apple, HP and Dell threatened suicide last week over company promises at its Xbox plant, according to press reports.

The mass suicide threat came after workers asked for a raise earlier this month and were told to either quit with compensation or keep their jobs and receive no pay increase, according to the WantChinaTines.com. Most decided to quit with compensation, but the company allegedly terminated the agreement and the workers never received their payments.

In response, the employees went to the top of a building at a Foxconn Technology Park and threatened to jump, according to the report. The mayor of the town eventually came and talked them out of it.

Contract manufacturer Foxconn came under fire in 2010 when workers successfully committed suicide in a plant that manufactured components for Apple.