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The GFA (Global Framework Agreement) is a first for an e-commerce brand, and will establish a framework for protecting and strengthening the rights of workers producing ASOS own-brand products in countries around the world. IndustriALL has signed a global framework agreement with e-commerce brand ASOS,…
Bosses all over the world are using precarious work to undermine workers’ conditions and rights. Zero-hours, outsourcing, contracting, casual, agency, short term, indirect, temporary, self-employed: its all part of the same attack on decent work. If we stand together, we can push back, defend quality…
As OLED becomes the ‘screen of choice’ analysts say that panels for smartphones will roughly triple over the next five years, while the market for LCD panels will fall 14%. The value of global OLED panel shipments in 2017 is estimated to reach $21.6 billion, already showing…
Migrant workers form the Chinese countryside, who leave their hometown to find employment in industrial cities, see an end to the big rises of their wages. Last year the growth fell below 7 percent. Policy changes are the most likely factor. According to Jenny Chan…
The whole world is one global supply chain. Brand name companies like Nike, Apple, Hasbro, and dozens of apparel companies do not actually make the consumer products they sell. Instead they hire contract manufacturers in the developing world to produce their goods. And these contractors…
Ten years ago the first iPhone went on sale. The iconic product not only profoundly altered the world of gadgets, but also of consumption and tall corporate profit; this world would be impossible without the toiling of millions along the assembly line. I look back…
As China charges ahead with the production of smartphones, electrolyte makers have been racing to mass-produce low-cost components for the consumer Li-ion battery market. Chinese manufacturers are also the dominant players for other battery components. But their Japanese counterparts are now discovering new opportunities in…
Students and Academics Against Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) is calling for a Global Action Day to End Apple’s iSlavery. With cooperation from GoodElectronics, SACOM has published a documentary animation on the mistreatment of Chinese student interns to produce iPhones in Foxconnn factories – a major…
Foxconn Technology will invest 37.5 billion yuan (US$5.74 billion) to expand its facilities in Nanjing, China. It will become the largest smartphone assembly worldwide and a hub for research and development. Deputy general manager Zheng Naijian signed a contract on September 12 with Nanjing’s deputy…
The information technology sector employs 3.9 million people in India. Yet India’s IT sector is being criticized for its ‘under-preparedness’ for technological change and increased global uncertainty. As a result, reports suggest up to 200,000 jobs a year could be cut over the next 3 to…