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…
A recent report by labour rights organisation Cividep shows that in the electronic sector wages are still below the living wage calculations, even if they seem to be comparatively better than in other manufacturing sectors…
One of every two mobile phones is manufactured in China. In 2008, makeITfair published a report about poor working conditions at factories that mobile phone companies source from. One year later, two of the factories…
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…
Since December 2008, Chinese and Taiwanese trade unions and labour groups are protesting ongoing labour issues at Wintek facilities in Taiwan, and in China. The complaints range from unlawful dismissals, forced unpaid leave, strike busting,…
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…
Thousands of signatories joined makeITfair in its call towards mobile phone companies to pay greater attention to social standards in their supply chains.”This campaign, organised by makeITfair, continued to collect more than 7,800 signatures calling…
The Finnish makeITfair campaign is asking Nokia to become the trailblazer in developing ethical mobile phones. So far, over 5’000 people have put their signature under the petition which will handed over to Nokia on…
A significant victory for the dismissed workers of the Nokia plant in Reynosa, Mexico. Court cases started by CEREAL and the Electronics Industry Workers Coalition against Nokia, Manpower and Adecco were settled to the advantage…