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Time to bite into a fair Apple: makeITfair and GoodElectronics action day on May 7th
May 7th makeITfair and GoodElectronics are organising an international action day focusing on Apple as an innovative and moneymaking world leader in coveted electronics devices. makeITfair and GoodElectronics are mobilising concerned consumers, youth organisations and…
Apple petitioned to take up responsibility for poisoned Chinese electronics workers
In 2009, a number of workers at United Win in Suzhou (China) suffered the effects of hexane poisoning. United Win is a subsidiary of the Taiwanese electronics company Wintek Corporation and a supplier to Apple….
Apple ignores requests by poisoned workers in China
In 2009 and 2010, reports came out about electronics workers being poisoned by N-hexane in China. This was at United Win, the Suzhou based subsidiary of the Taiwanese company Wintek. United Win produces for Apple….
Important improvements at chinese electronic factories but pressing issues remain
Four supplier factories of game consoles and MP3 players (supplying to Apple, Microsoft, Motorola, Philips and Sony) have been recently re-examined by makeITfair and made significant improvements. Some important issues remain however: the wage increases…
Apple responds to suicides at Foxconn, at last
In its Supplier Responsibility 2011 Progress Report, issued in February 2011, Apple accounts for the first time for its responses to the suicides at Foxconn. The reports details how two suicide prevention specialists with experience…
Game console and Music player production in China
Getting greener but not yet there. Greenpeace green electronics product survey
In June 2010, Greenpeace invited 20 companies to submit their greenest products across 7 categories that would be on the market by November 2010. These included monitors, desktops, notebooks, netbooks, mobile phones, smartphones, and televisions….
Foxconn suicides forgotten, back to business as usual? New SACOM report released.
In the following joint press statement, GoodElectronics, SACOM, Bread for All, makeITfair and the IMF summarise the key finding of the report on substandard wages, excessive working hours, shocking corporate management systems, forced relocation of…
International investor coalition urgently calls for improved working conditions in electronics manufacturing facilities
In light of a series of suicides at the Foxconn Electronics facility in China, a broad coalition of over 40 European, Australian and U.S. investors have joined their voices to issue a public statement condemning…