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…
Today, 31 May 2012, the Hong Kong based labour group Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) has released a report entitled ‘Sweatshops are good for Apple and Foxconn, but not for workers’. SACOM responds…
The FLA report ‘Independent investigation of Apple’s supplier Foxconn’ confirms abusive labour conditions as have been reported over the past years by local and international labour groups. GoodElectronics and makeITfair welcome the FLA efforts but…
January 2012, Apple joined the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and subsequently opened its suppliers to for factory inspections. After a month-long investigation at Foxconn in Shenzhen and Chengdu, FLA released a report on Thursday in…
In a joint statement issued, dated March 22, unions and NGOs called on Apple to rely on workers themselves to monitor the labour conditions in the manufacture of its products, not a top-down auditing approach….
On 18 February, Foxconn Technology Group announced a pay rise for the production workers in China. Hong Kong-based labour group SACOM comments upon this development. The new basic wage at CNY 1800 only applies to…
On the occasion of Apple’s 2012 annual shareholders’ meeting GoodElectronics, makeITfair and the International Metalworkers’Federation (IMF) share their concerns with Apple shareholders regarding persisting labour rights violations at Apple’s suppliers in China, as well as…
Owing to escalating pressure on Apple from consumers, computer giant Apple Inc. recently purchased a membership in the Fair Labour Association (FLA). The group began factory inspections at Apple suppliers last week. After one week…
In its fourth report on working conditions in the Mexican electronics industry, the Centro de Reflexión y Acción Laboral (CEREAL), addresses the top-three of most problematic issues in this sector: low wages; phantom unions and…
