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Samsung Display and its parent company, Samsung Electronics, have filed legal action in South Korea in an attempt to prevent the disclosure of potentially damming workplace assessment reports. Samsung has claimed that publicising reports on its production facility in Asan would reveal company secrets –…
Around 6,000 workers at Flex factories in the Chinese city of Zhuhai went on strike in March, protesting after being kept in the dark about plans to transfer factory ownership to MFLEX – a subsidiary of Suzhou Dongshan Precision Manufacturing. Workers expressed concerns about job…
UN human rights experts have raised concerns about human rights violations at Samsung Vietnam (20 March 2018) in a joint statement. The three UN human rights experts, Mr. Baskut Tuncak, Ms. Anita Ramasastry, and Mr. David Kaye, expressed concern that Samsung’s intimidation and legal threats against workers and researchers…
To help protect the 244 million migrant workers from abusive employment practices, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has launched a new web platform to promote fair recruitment. By enabling users to share reviews of recruitment agencies, the ITUC hopes to prevent unscrupulous recruiters from exploiting…
In response to growing concerns over the design of smartphones and their short lifetime – of just 2 years – a group of NGOs across Europe have launched a campaign to demand for more sustainable tech. Smartphone sales have been increasing, with over 7 billion being…
While Samsung has been praised for the release of its new Galaxy S9 and S9+ smartphones, research by CGFED and IPEN reveal on-going labour abuses in Samsung’s Vietnamese factories. Concerns about Samsung’s Vietnamese factories were first raised in November 2017, when a report by CGFED and IPEN was published…
Females make up approximately half of the 244 million migrants that work abroad, according to the United Nations. However, this group is among the most vulnerable to exploitation and discrimination according to a report by the Fair Labor Association (FLA). Female migrant workers in South East…
China fast-tracks the approval process for the Shanghai listing of a core unit of Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry (also known as Foxconn). This points to efforts by the Chinese government to lure Taiwanese businesses away from the island, putting economic pressure on its pro-independence…
Competition in the Chinese smartphone market – the worlds largest – increases amid signs of maturity and declining shipments. China alone accounts for around 30% of global smartphone sales, but for the first time the market shrank in 2017. A trend which is expected to…
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has put threats against factory workers and labour activists in Samsung’s Vietnamese factories on top of the agenda for the South Korean President Moon Jae-in during his visit to the country. In a letter to the President, Sharan Burrow,…