Competition in the Chinese smartphone market – the worlds largest – increases amid signs of maturity and declining shipments. China alone accounts for around 30% of global smartphone sales, but for the first time the…
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has put threats against factory workers and labour activists in Samsung’s Vietnamese factories on top of the agenda for the South Korean President Moon Jae-in during his visit to…
The worldwide shipments in the smartphone market shows a decline of 6.3% in the fourth quarter of 2017. Overall Samsung remained at the top of the worldwide smartphone market in 2017. Only in the fourth…
Trade unions around the world demand the immediate release of Han Sang-gyun from prison, the president of Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU), as well as the withdrawal of the charges against Lee Young-joo, the former General Secretary…
After a year of imprisonment the vice president of the Samsung Group is free again in the same week his father has named as a suspect in a tax evasion case ($7.5 million). A panel…
Samsung faces a lawsuit in the French courts for misleading advertising related to alleged workers’ rights violations. Two french non-governmental (NGO) firms – Sherpa and ActionAid France filed a lawsuit last week targeting Samsung Global and…
A study conducted by the environmental NGO IPEN and Vietnam-based Center for Gender, Family and Environment in Development (CGFED), reveals the poor working conditions in Samsung’s Vietnamese smartphone production sites. The study focuses on interviews with 45 workers at two factories…
A report released by CGFED and IPEN in November 2017 accuses Samsung of ‘serious’ labour abuses in its Vietnamese smartphone factories. Despite the evidence, Samsung disputes claims of wrongdoing and said the report is different from the…
Samsung has finished construction of a US$600 million research and development center in Ho Chi Minh City. Yet, this comes as a report by Research Center for Gender Family and Environment in Development (CGFED) and IPEN sheds light on…