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SACOM - Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour
Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) is a nonprofit organization founded in Hong Kong in June 2005. SACOM originated from a students’ movement devoted to improving the labor conditions of cleaning workers and security guards under the outsourcing policy. The movement attained relative success and created an opportunity for students to engage in local and global labor issues. SACOM aims at bringing concerned students, scholars, labor activists, and consumers together to monitor corporate behavior and to advocate for workers’ rights.
SACOM believes that the most effective means of monitoring is to collaborate closely with workers at the workplace level. They team up with labor NGOs to provide in-factory training to workers in South China. Through democratic elections, SACOM supports worker-based committees that can represent the voices of the majority of workers.
Objectives: Campaign against corporate misbehaviour &
promote democratic worker representation in China
Activities: Research into working conditions of Chinese suppliers of computer
multinationals, coordinate workers’ rights training program in China, and
initiate sweatfree campus movement in Hong Kong
| Contact info |
Room 1204, Wing Lee Industrial Building
54-58 Tong Mi Road, Mongkok, Kowloon HONG KONG
Tel 852-2392 5464
Jenny Chan, chief Coordinator - wlchan@sacom.hk
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| Countries | China |
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- Chinese battery producer fails to be a decent employer
- 'Our bosses are deaf and blind', says Wintek worker
- Labour rights training programmes in China
- Open letter to Fujitsu calling for constructive engagement with civil society
- If you are holding an iPhone or an HTC in your hand,
- HP reports on worker labour rights awareness training program at Chinese supplier
- Fujitsu Siemens Computers takes no responsibility for labour rights violations in its Chinese supply chain
- Updated version of 'The dark side of cyberspace - inside the sweatshops of China's computer hardware production'
- Philips Electronics – Overview of controversial business practices in 2008
- Playing with Labour Rights
- “The Dark Side of Cyberspace”
- The dark side of cyberspace
- Weak responses by the industry's sustainability initiatives to critical report
- Electronics sustainability initiatives' responses to research disappoint
- Report: “ High Tech – No Rights? A One Year Follow Up Report on the Working Conditions in the Electronics Hardware Sector in China.
- Young consumers are willing to pay more for fair electronics
- Dell, the manufacturing of sweatshop computers
- Research report on Yong Hong Electronics
