A majority of workers at Flextronics Technology (Penang) Sdn Bhd voted in favor of union recognition, but the effort fell short after what the union calls an aggressive anti-union campaign by management. Out of 6,345…
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…
Wages too low to support a family, circumvention of overtime payments violating international standards, 12-hour shifts and temporary agency workers exceeding the number of permanent workers in times of peak production. Many of the labour…
The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights may form the common ground between electronics companies and civil society organisations in addressing labour issues such as the excessive use of temporary labour. This is…
Precarious jobs and insufficient wages are common in the mobile phone industry in India. These are the findings of a new report launched today by the makeITfair campaign. Phony Equality – Labour standards of mobile…
A new report by China Labor Watch (CLW), ‘Tragedies of Globalization: The Truth Behind Electronics Sweatshops’, points at on-going labour rights violations at ten Chinese electronics factories that supply finished manufactured electronic products to multinational…
In September 2010, Cividep (India) published a report raising concerns about working conditions in mobile phone manufacturing plants at the Nokia campus of the Telecom Special Economic Zone in Sriperumbudur, near Chennai, drawing on interviews…