The Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) launched the Responsible Labor Initiative (RLI) to help companies respect the rights of workers that are vulnerable to forced labour.
The initiative aims to extend EICC standards to other industries and wants to use complementary solutions to better address issues, for instance self-assessments and audits for factories, and a third-party helpline.
Debt bondage is prevalent among migrant workers in Taiwanese firms supplying global satellite, electronics, and automotive industries. This article by Peter Bentsen shows that major corporations like SpaceX and HughesNet sourced equipment from suppliers like…
In a Change.Org petition, civil society organisations demand that Apple Inc. take on its social responsibility to thoroughly investigate the incident at Zhengzhou’s Foxconn factory. Since late October, footage depicting Foxconn workers’ experience of brutal…
Samsung workers in a smartphone plant in Vietnam say that the company has reduced its output as merchants and warehouses struggle with growing inventories due to a global decline in consumer spending. In an exclusive…
Supported by GoodElectronics, Cividep studied the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the electronics sector in India. The main objective of this research was to evaluate the immediate as well as the broader and medium-term…
Supported by GoodElectronics, CEREAL wrote a report updating on the situation of precarious work in the Mexican electronics industry, which also covers the impact of Covid-19 and the increase of outsourcing. The report also includes…
When Salcomp Turkey, which produces smartphones for Chinese Xiaomi, the second largest smartphone maker in the world, fired 170 workers for joining a union, the union members took action. At the end of September 2021,…
A research published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health studies the musculoskeletal disorder symptoms among workers in electronic waste recycling site in Ghana. Ghana is one of the biggest destinations of…
A recent report from The Information has once again put Apple under the spotlight. The report revealed that it took three years for Apple to stop sourcing from its suppliers who violate its policies. The…
Reposted from SOMO Hiding behind complex supply chains, undermining unions, disseminating distorted information – these are just a few of the ways that corporations try to avoid responsibility for human rights abuses and environmental damage…