The ITUC Frontlines report 2016, Scandal: Inside the global supply chains of 50 top companies exposes a hidden workforce of 116 million people. Around 60% of global trade in the real economy is dependent on…
Supporters for the Health And Rights of People in the Semiconductor industry (SHARPS) report on the death of Ms Lee Ji-hye, again another Samsung employee to die of cancer.Supporters for the Health And Rights of…
A new report by China Labor Watch finds labour rights violations persist at HEG Technology in China. HEG Technology is a state-controlled company, which supplies to companies like Samsung and Huawei. China Labor Watch has…
SHARPS activists and supporters rallied at Samsung corporate headquarters in Seoul to call on the company to reinitiate the arbitration process with occupational disease victims. Hundreds of victims and supporters gathered at the company’s corporate…
Samsung Electronics has paid undisclosed sums to compensate about 30 victims of its occupational disease cluster after the victims signed a confidentiality agreement shielding the company from any further legal and financial liability, an opposition…
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has launched a website for individual occupational-disease victims seeking compensation from the company, hammering a nail in the coffin of prospects for sufficient payouts for the company’s victims, and for publicly…
A French scholar who took an MBA course about 20 years ago in Japan with Lee Jae-yong (also known as “Jay”), vice chairman and the heir apparent of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., urged Mr. Lee…
In recent years, several electronics multinationals set up business in Brazil. It looked as if Brazil would become the next global manufacturing hub. In this paper SOMO and Repórter Brasil aim to provide an overview…
