Cobalt blues
Environmental pollution and human rights violations in Congolese cobalt mines
Samsung
South Korean Administrative Court Seen Misjudging the Impact of Carcinogens Used At Samsung
South Korea’s administrative court has rejected at least two separate appeals filed for workers’ compensation by victims of Samsung’s blood-disorder cluster by dismissing the causal link between a widely recognized cancer-causing chemical and two former…
OLED suppliers compete for new iPhone orders
Potential suppliers of flexible OLED panels for Apple’s next generation of iPhones are competing for orders, according to Korean industry insiders. Apple has already ordered 60,000 panels from Samsung Display. Other companies that are in…
Samsung Steps Up Smear Campaign Against SHARPS And Cluster Victims
Samsung, the world’s largest technology firm by revenue, continues to shift the blame to victims of its occupational disease cluster and to play off them one against another, in a move to move the cluster…
Scandal: Inside the global supply chains of 50 top companies
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…
Samsung ends 2015 with another death, reports SHARPS
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…
Labour rights violations persist at HEG Technology
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…
Samsung victims and SHARPS throw “Sam Ba” party
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…
Gold from children’s hands
Use of child-mined gold by the electronics sector
SHARPS: Samsung hands out hush money to occupational disease victims
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…