SHARPS’s Sit-in Marks the 300th Day
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…
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20 ICT firms ranked on supply chain forced labour
KnowTheChain released its first ranking of ICT companies with regard to their efforts in mitigating forced labour in their supply chains. For the twenty global ICT companies that were evaluated by KnowTheChain, the average score was…
SHARPS keeps keen eye on Samsung’s ombudsman committee
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. June 8 launched an Ombudsman Committee on Leukemia of Samsung, (Ombudsman), an external monitoring structure agreed to by SHARPS in January 2016. Three Years The ombudsman currently seats labor law professor…
S. Korean Gov’t declares malignant lymphoma occupational disease
In an unprecedented ruling, Korea Workers’ Compensation and Welfare Service (KCOMWEL) on June 1 cited malignant lymphoma as an occupational disease and granted workers compensation to Park Hyo-soon, a former Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. employee who died…
Samsung in India: 20 years on, but low labour standards
Cividep India together with GoodElectronics has published a profile of Samsung’s operations in India. Cividep describes how Samsung India has completed 20 years of operating in India with special offers called “Celebrating 20 years” for…
RankaBrand ranks 19 electronics brands: bulk of brands get low scores
Rankabrand has compared and ranked 19 electronics brands like Apple, Dell, HP, HTC, Huawei, Nintendo, Samsung. The questions used for ranking are categorised into three areas: Labour Conditions and Human Rights, Climate Change, and Ecology….
Whistleblower: Samsung extorts tens of millions of dollars from suppliers
Samsung Electronics extracted at least KRW $20 billion (US $17 million) from a group of component suppliers in fiscal year 2014 to prop up the sagging consumer electronics segment, independent news service Newstapa reported May…
The struggle of SHARPS for better health protection at Samsung
Journalist Rachel Cernansky has published an in-depth article on GoodElectronics’ network member Supporters for Health and Rights of People in the Semiconductor Industry (SHARPS). SHARPS has been advocating and protesting for better health protection in…
SHARPS: Blood-disorder cluster seen expanding to Samsung suppliers
An employee of a Korean Samsung Electronics’ chemicals supplier has petitioned for workers compensation after being diagnosed with leukemia—yet another sign that Samsung’s cosmetic efforts to improve workers safety, and brazen attempts to deny rightful…
Cobalt blues
Environmental pollution and human rights violations in Congolese cobalt mines