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…
Workers at Dongguan Baoxing Electronics have been on strike for multiple days to demand compensation after the company announced it would relocate operations to another district in Dongguan. During the demonstration, workers held up a…
Samsung has agreed to the Mediation Committee’s recommendation to provide $85.8 million, but has rejected the core recommendation — the funding of an independent non-profit foundation for implementing the compensation. Support this call on Samsung…
Two South-Korean Samsung workers got seriously ill while working on the semiconductor assembly line. After applying for medical care benefit, Samsung decided to disapprove their applications, saying that it could not recognise a proximate causal…
Hankyoreh21, a weekly magazine of South Korea, analyzed the compensation standards that Samsung had proposed in the mediation process to address workers’ death and health problems. According to Hankyoreh21’s analysis, only 14 people (8.5%) of…
98 dead and more than 130 severely diseased: The Clean-IT campaign, Südwind and other NGOs publish these dolorous statistics on the occasion of the World Cancer Day on February 4th and demand that Samsung take…
For the third time the Network Social Responsibility (NeSoVe) awards the “Eyesore of the year” – price for socially irresponsible companies, organizations, institutions and individuals. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is among the nominees because of…
China Labor Watch (CLW) announced that it has collected additional evidence to support the allegations that child workers and student workers from the Chengdu Urban Construction Vocational School in Sichuan Province were employed at Samsung…
A new investigative report, which includes field research in South Korea, points out severe violations of labour rights in the electronics industry, particularly regarding health and safety issues, and freedom of association restrictions. Electronics watch…