Korea Workers Compensation and Welfare Service (KCOMWEL) has posthumously granted workers compensation benefits to two Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.workers, after deeming their lung cancers to be occupationally caused—the service’s first-ever admission of a pulmonary condition…
Starting from 13 September, a group of NGOs from the Republic of Korea and China will participate in the 33rd session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland to raise awareness on workers…
More than 100 NGOs and social movements in Mexico have documented cases of alleged corporate abuse in different sectors: mining, energy, oil & gas, agribusiness, and construction, among others. The report, compiling 68 cases, was presented…
South Korea’s highest court has invoked a controversial clause on the work relatedness of disease and upheld a lower- court decision to reject workers compensation claims filed by three workers who had developed or died…
Samsung deliberately kept secret the harmful chemicals its South Korean workers were exposed to, fearing its competitors would learn trade secrets. There have been 200 cases of serious illnesses at Samsung’s LCD factories, including leukemia,…
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….
The Samsung conglomerate has medieval working conditions behind modern technology, Sharan Burrow, general secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, summed up in her Huffington Post blog on 10 August, as she criticized the world’s largest technology company and…
South Korean authorities have repeatedly complied with Samsung Electronics Co.’s requests and refused to release critical data about chemicals that could be used to prove the work-relatedness of the illnesses of at least six former…
As of 1 August 2016, SHARPS has marked the 300th day of a sit-in that the advocacy group began on 7 October 2015, after Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. walked out of negotiations with them and imposed…