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SACOM video “Apple: Student Interns or Disposable Labour?”
Students and Academics Against Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) is calling for a Global Action Day to End Apple’s iSlavery. With cooperation from GoodElectronics, SACOM has published a documentary animation on the mistreatment of Chinese student interns to produce iPhones in Foxconnn factories – a major…
Is Apple really providing learning opportunities to its employees?
A new investigative report disclosing Apple’s interns abuses will be published by SACOM soon. To demand Apple Inc. to stop abusing students and end labour informalization, please like and share SACOM’s animation and join the campaign #iSlaveat10. In recent years, the term “Empowering Workers” has…
SACOM: Labour rights violations still widespread at Apple’s display screen manufacturer
After its 2013 report revealed inhumane working conditions at Apple’s largest display screen manufacturer, SACOM conducted a second round of investigations in 2015 and 2016. Labour rights violations are still widespread at Biel Chrystal. In 2013, GoodElectronics’ member SACOM published ‘Stains on iPhones’ Cover…
Hong Kong labor organizations: Free Meng Han and drop all charges against Guangdong labor rights activists! (Updated November 4)
Joint statement Meng Han Hong Kong labour organizations are calling for the release of labour activist Meng Han, who will stand trial on November 3 because he is “suspected of assembling a crowd to disturb social order”. Meng Han was arrested on December 3, 2015…
Well-polished Apple’s CSR report is just another fairytale for workers
On the day of Apple’s annual general meeting, Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) is urging Apple again to take immediate and constructive action to fulfil its corporate responsibility by improving the working conditions in its suppliers. Despite respectable quarterly revenues of US$57.6 billion…
Apple fails in its responsibility to monitor suppliers
iPad mini-mizes labour rights, says SACOM
Hong Kong-based labour group Students & Scholars Against Coporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) reports on labour abuses at iPad-mini manufacturer Riteng Computer Accessory Co., a subsidiary of Pegatron Corp. According to SACOM labour rights abuses are widespread at Riteng. SACOM points out that problems are rooted in…
‘What’s wrong with sweatshops?’ says Foxconn CEO. ‘Sweatshops are good for Apple and Foxconn but not for workers!’, writes SACOM
Today, 31 May 2012, the Hong Kong based labour group Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) has released a report entitled ‘Sweatshops are good for Apple and Foxconn, but not for workers’. SACOM responds to a remark by Terry Gou, CEO of Foxconn, that…
Apple Concedes Problems in Supply Chain. FLA Report Omits Work Stress and Forced Internship
January 2012, Apple joined the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and subsequently opened its suppliers to for factory inspections. After a month-long investigation at Foxconn in Shenzhen and Chengdu, FLA released a report on Thursday in which several pressing issues at Foxconn are pointed out, including,…
Give Apple workers a voice in their future
In a joint statement issued, dated March 22, unions and NGOs called on Apple to rely on workers themselves to monitor the labour conditions in the manufacture of its products, not a top-down auditing approach. “Give Apple workers a voice in their future”, the joint…
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