News release: Labor NGO Ecumenical Institute for Labor Education and Research (EILER) expresses alarm as more and more corporations are laying off employees, contributing to the number growing of joblessness in the country. EILER noted…
A survey commissioned by Greenpeace shows that the majority of consumers think that phone manufacturers release too many new models. Almost half said that they agreed that companies should take more responsibility to support recycling….
On the day before Nokia’s shareholder meeting in Helsinki, Finland, the GoodElectronics Network is publishing a company profile narrating nearly two decades of the rise, fall, and resurrection of this Finnish electronics company. The profile…
The Finnish company Nokia used to be the charming ‘girl next door’ among the telecoms. But the takeover by Microsoft has changed it all. It’s the Vietnamese and Indian workers assembling the mobile phones who…
Civil society organisations from India and around the world are highly concerned about the recent spree of retrenching electronics workers in the Sriperumbudur industrial area in Tamil Nadu, India. The trend was set when Nokia…
Since yesterday, 800 workers of the electronic company Build your Dreams (BYD) in Chennai, India are on strike. The workers are unsatisfied with the voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) offered by the Chinese owned Nokia supplier,…
On International Workers’ Day, Nokia India Thozhilalar Sangam (NITS), the employees’ union, releases its film titled ‘Dis-Connecting People’, documenting the voices of workers that have remained muted in a battle between the state and the…
Workers in the electronics industry in the Chennai region of India face appalling labour conditions, says Laura Ceresna of Cividep on Austrian radio. She describes how young workers hailing from rural areas are made to…