Under pressure from many different sources, more than 20 IT brands have responded to questions from environmental NGOs, and have set out to strengthen the environmental management of their supply chains. A report by Friends…
On the day of Apple’s annual general meeting, Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) is urging Apple again to take immediate and constructive action to fulfil its corporate responsibility by improving the working conditions…
China Labor Watch has published an investigative report that reveals major labour abuses at Quanta Shanghai Manufacturing City (QSMC), a supplier to brands like Sony, Apple, and Dell. QSMC is a subsidiary of Taiwan Quanta…
Apple Inc. is nominated for the “Eyesore of the Year 2013″, because the company relocated parts of its production to Pegatron in June 2013, after worldwide protests against the working conditions at supplier Foxconn. It’s…
Last Saturday, Chinese factory worker Ming Kunpeng sadly ended his life by jumping from the rooftop of the hospital where he was receiving treatment. His mother was sleeping in his room at the time and…
Fair Labor Association (FLA) has completed its verification at Apple supplier Foxconn. In the third and final “Foxconn Verification Status Report” released on 12 December 2013, FLA claims that 98.9 per cent of the corrective…
As the size of Apple’s cash reserves continues to mount, the company has come under increasing pressure to return more of those reserves to shareholders, through dividends and/or stock buy backs. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn…
China Labor Watch (CLW) has obtained information about the recent sudden deaths of several workers at Pegatron (Shanghai) Ltd Co., a factory primarily making cell phones and tablet PCs for Apple, including iPhone 5C. One…
Smartphones from companies such as Apple, Samsung or HTC are among the most popular consumer and lifestyle products today. Unfortunately a whole series of problems occur during the global production process, ranging from bad working…
Apple ist das wertvollste Markenunternehmender Welt. Gleichzeitig steht es seit Jahren wegen Arbeitsrechtsverletzungen bei seinen chinesischen Zulieferern in der Kritik. Deshalb richtete Germanwatch sich gemeinsam mit den Partnerorganisationen aus dem europäischen Projekt makeITfair und des…