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iSlave behind the iPhone Foxconn Workers in Central China

In May 2011, Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) released a report, titled Foxconn and Apple Fail to Fulfill Promises: Predicaments of Workers after the Suicides1, which documented the labour rights conditions at the Foxconn plant in Chengdu, China, a supplier of the iPad.

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News / March 11, 2023

Apple and Foxconn lobby to lax Indian labour laws

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Apple must investigate Zhengzhou’s Foxconn factory

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…

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South African mineworkers discuss strategies to prevent injuries and deaths from mine accidents

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Lithium drives investments, workplace concerns in Australia

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Samsung workers in Vietnam bear brunt of slowdown in global demand for electronics

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ILO webinar on safe and healthy working environment as a fundamental right

On Monday 11 July 2022, the ILO International Training Centre organises a webinar titled ‘A safe and healthy working environment is now a fundamental principle and right at work’. The presentation will be delivered via…

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