BBC reports that Foxconn has recently replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots. A government official announced that the amount of employees in one of the factories has been reduced from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to…
Nearly 1000 Vietnamese workers for the Korean electronics company Bluecom Vina started a strike on April 11 after the Korean directors ignored their pleas to increase wages and reduce working hours. Bluecom is subcontractor to…
The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) The European Trade Union Institute is the independent research and training centre of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) which itself affiliates European trade unions into a single European…
Potential suppliers of flexible OLED panels for Apple’s next generation of iPhones are competing for orders, according to Korean industry insiders. Apple has already ordered 60,000 panels from Samsung Display. Other companies that are in…
Thozhilalar koodam, a blog on labour issues in Tamil Nadu, posted an about the remarkable fact that the corporations Foxconn and General Motors have shut down production plants in India at the same time that…
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…
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…
At about 8 a.m. on 17 March 2010, a 17-year-old worker, Tian Yu, went to the window of her fourth story dorm room at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen and jumped. Tian Yu survived. Yet…
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…