Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn has seen a wave of suicides among employees of its Longhua plants over the past months. GoodElectronics and makeITfair have published a public statement severly criticising this situation and calling upon…
Over the past months a wave of suicides has occurred at the Foxconn plant of Longhua in southern China. Reportedly, 12 employees all between 18 and 24 years old have attempted to commit suicide. Foxconn…
800 workers at the HP site in Erskine, Scotland, UK, were recently told to be losing their jobs. HP has decided to relocate production to the Czech Republic. Workers working at the HP site were…
The United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) on business and human rights John Ruggie is currently carrying out a review to test the Principles for non-judicial, company-level mechanisms set out in his 2008…
Hewlett Packard and Dell have recently been removed from the equity fund of the Dutch ASN Bank. The ASN Bank Special Investment Criteria define which companies are accepted in the ASN Bank equity fund. Companies…
When centrally controlled economic systems collapsed and the markets of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) opened up to foreign capital, most of the world’s big electronics companies started to invest in the region. How did…
Warranty provider SquareTrade analysed failure rates for over 30,000 new laptop computers covered by SquareTrade Laptop Warranty plans and found that one-third of all laptops will fail within 3 years. Lap tops of nine brands…
In the Mexican crisis, the workers save the electronics industry but in return labour conditions worsen. What has happened to workers in the supply chains of Nokia, Philips, Panasonic, IBM, HP, Lenovo, Sanmina, Jabil and…
Of late, the Chinese not-for profit organisation Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM), supported by the Swiss NGO Bread for All, released two reports on in-factory labour rights training programmes at two China-based suppliers…
In December 2007, workers at Hoya Glass Disk (Thailand) formed a trade union to better promote the interests of the workers at this plant in Lamphun in the north of Thailand. An initial collective bargaining…