When Salcomp Turkey, which produces smartphones for Chinese Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone maker in the world, fired 170 workers for joining a union, the union members took action. At the end of September 2021,…
The GoodElectronics Network (GE), the Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO), and the Business, Human Rights Environment Research Group of Greenwich University (BHRE) released a report that proposes a new approach to the urgent…
Workers Decry Union Busting SMT Philippines Inc., a Japanese company producing and supplying USB for Toshiba and motherboard for EPSON printers closes operation without notice last, October 1, 2018, in what the workers’ union says…
Press agency Reuters reports on plans to build 15 to 20 factories in Europe that will produce battery cells for electric cars. These include factories in Sweden, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Poland and England. A major…
A group of workers of Shenzhen Jasic Technology Co., Ltd organized to exercise their right to Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining and setting up their own trade union according to the legal procedures. However,…
by Jenny Chan – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Last month students and recent graduates from more than a dozen mainland Chinese universities stood up in solidarity support with workers of Jasic Technology, a private…
Electronics company Samsung accepted the arbitration proposal on compensation for hundreds of South Korean workers that suffered from severe diseases such as leukemia caused by unsafe working conditions. The agreement was signed on July 24….
Cobalt is an important mineral for the manufacturing of batteries in electronics and electric vehicles. The fact that a couple of mining companies in the United States are staking claims at sites in Idaho, Montana…