In November and December 2008, about 1’000 workers at the Nokia plant in Reynosa, Mexico, were dismissed. Reportedly, at least 53 workers were put under pressure to voluntarily sign resignation letters. All workers dismissed were…
For its plant in Reynosa, in northern Mexico, Nokia hires its workforce through labour agencies Adecco and Manpower. It turns out that the rights of these workers are badly protected. GoodElectronics was informed of the…
The mobile phone industry is often presented as a clean, unproblematic industry, but makeITfair’s new report ‘Silenced to Deliver’ shows that this is not the case. Workers’ rights in Asian mobile phone factories are severely…
The Greenpeace report “Chemical contamination at e-waste recycling and disposal sites in Ghana”, released on August 5th 2008, exposes the extent of environmental contamination caused by recycling and disposal of e-waste in Ghana. Analysis of…
Helsinki – The world’s leading mobile telephone producer Nokia admitted on Tuesday 8 April in Helsinki that “the union leaders” at Nokia’s plant in Reynosa in Mexico are appointed by the company itself. Thus the…
The agreement would secure the basic rights of Nokia’s employees world-wide. The unions presented their proposal on Tuesday in Helsinki at a press conference where a research report was published on working conditions in the…
Nokia, the world’s biggest maker of mobile phones, said that it would close a factory in Germany and cut about 2,300 jobs as it shifted production to locations with lower costs. The factory in Bochum…
