Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM), together with Worker Empowerment (WE), Globalization Monitor (GM), Left 21, Labour Education & Service Network (LESN), Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC) staged a protest outside the Apple Store…
Gerd Müller, German minister of international development, says Apple should take more responsibility for the wellbeing of its factory workers. The company should also focus more on the environment.Gerd Müller, German minister of international development,…
Beginning on August 3, hundreds of workers at the Kesheng Technology factory in Suzhou, China protested after learning that the company planned to move operations without giving workers reasonable compensation. Kesheng, a major supplier of…
An investigation into the year-over-year growth in Apple’s annual emissions since 2010 shows that the company is on the wrong side of sustainability, with substantial growth in manufacturing and transportation emissions, including those per product…
China Labor Watch (CLW) published a new report that investigates labour costs and conditions at two major Apple supplier manufacturers, Pegatron (Shanghai) and Foxconn (Longhua).China Labor Watch (CLW) published a new report that investigates labour…
GoodElectronics has signed on to a joint letter with the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) and other organisations addressing the Fair Labour Association (FLA) on its Fair Compensation work plan. GoodElectronics is worried about the…
The iPhone 6 sales figures were released this week. 74 million iPhone 6 sold, of a projected total of 80 million. No doubt they will reach, and exceed, 80 million. Apple releases some of the…
In the electronics sector, direct labour costs generally represent only 2% of the factory selling price. This article, written by former Philips-consultant Antony Harris, explains how an electronic product that is priced $100 when it…
In China, there are more than 200 million people working in hazardous environments. And in a country that produces more than half of the world’s cell phones, many of them are doing that hazardous work…