Today, the National Labor Committee (NLC) is releasing a 60-page report, High Tech Misery in China, documenting the grueling hours, low wages and draconian disciplinary measures at the Meitai factory in southern China. The 2,000…
The non-governmental organisations WEED and SACOM are today publishing the study “The Dark Side of Cyberspace – Inside the Sweatshops of China’s Hardware Production”. The study is based on 45 interviews conducted with employees of…
Priding itself upon its transparency, computer giant Dell is pre-annoucing that by mid 2009 it will disclose 95% of its suppliers in the next next corporate responsibility report.As Dell puts it, disclosing a list of…
September 12, 2008, Dell is organising a Stakeholder Forum in Berlin, Germany. The dialogue is timed to coincide with the Electronics Goes Green conference also taking place in Berlin the same week.Dell presents this forum…
In a joint statement, Bread for All and Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior address GeSi and EICC regarding their weak responses to the ‘One Year Follow Up Report on Working Conditions in China’s Electronic…
The Greenpeace report “Chemical contamination at e-waste recycling and disposal sites in Ghana”, released on August 5th 2008, exposes the extent of environmental contamination caused by recycling and disposal of e-waste in Ghana. Analysis of…
The American NGO As You Sow is successful in its effort to push Best Buy, the largest US electronics retailers to offer free take back of electronic waste in more than 10 of its US…
A year after the launch of the “High Tech – No Rights?” campaign, Bread for All, the Swiss Catholic Lenten Fund, and Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) publish a new study on working…
SACOM report: labour conditions and outsourcing in electronics industry.Poor labour conditions contradict the self-proclaimed clean and progressive image of the information industry. Inside the spacious and modern-looking factory buildings, production sites and systems are no…
