The European Commission has ruled that Ireland has illegally aided Apple with a favourable tax arrangement between 2003 and 2014. Apple has now been ordered to pay back 13 billion euros plus interest. Through Ireland’s…
The organisers of the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo want to produce the medals using recycled metals from e-waste. This could help raise awareness about the importance of recycling. The Nikkei Asian Review writes that…
On 6 June 2016 manufacturing company C&F Philippines, a subsidiary of Irish firm C&F Tooling, retrenched 87 factory workers, stating business losses as cause. WAC accused the company of Union Busting. Business & Human Rights…
In Africa, hundreds of millions of broken mobile telephones end up in landfills every year. The consequences are obvious: not only does this result in pollution and health hazards, but also a loss of valuable…
A survey commissioned by Greenpeace shows that the majority of consumers think that phone manufacturers release too many new models. Almost half said that they agreed that companies should take more responsibility to support recycling….
The Samsung conglomerate has medieval working conditions behind modern technology, Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, summed up in her Huffington Post blog on 10 August, as she criticized the world’s largest technology company and…
South Korean authorities have repeatedly complied with Samsung Electronics Co.’s requests and refused to release critical data about chemicals that could be used to prove the work-relatedness of the illnesses of at least six former…
The International Centre for Trade Union Rights (ICTUR) has been mapping trade unions to illustrate the diversity of organised labour across the world. Their work highlights the specific political, economic and legal context of Trade…
As of 1 August 2016, SHARPS has marked the 300th day of a sit-in that the advocacy group began on 7 October 2015, after Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. walked out of negotiations with them and imposed…