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…
Paris, October 9th, 2014 – Les Amis de la Terre/Friends of the Earth France, in partnership with CRID (Centre de Recherche et d’Information pour le Développement/Research and Information Centre for Development) and Peuples Solidaires –…
Only six weeks after the latest revelation of child labor in Samsung’s supply chain, China Labor Watch (CLW) has again uncovered child workers and student workers employed under exploitative conditions at a Samsung and Lenovo…