Account of a meeting between five Chinese environmental groups and Apple representatives dispatched from the USA at the company’s Beijing office to discuss supply-chain pollution.At 10am on November 15, five Chinese environmental groups visited Apple’s…
Unions representing Philips workers decide to form a global network to work on labour issues in the company and its suppliers. On November 23 and 24 representatives from unions present in Philips and supplier companies…
“When the mines close, no-one has enough to eat. When the mines close, the small diggers start digging their graves”. Obvious facts that stare us in the face but which did not cross the minds…
Organizing, collective bargaining and trade union networks were debated at a seminar between the International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF) and the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) on November 29-30 in Shanghai. 30 Chinese national, regional…
The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act has focused company attention on the presence of human trafficking and modern-day slavery in supply chains. Yet standard social compliance responses will not be adequate to reduce company…
BAN Toxics!, the Southeast Asian office of the Basel Action Network has released its e-waste study entitled, “Vanishing e-Wastes of the Philippines” and a short film with the same title. E-wastes in the Philippines come…
Last week, one third of the workers of the Jingmo Electronics Corporation’s Shenzhen factory staged a strike, expressing their grievances over nightly overtime imposed on them, the high rate of workplace injuries, mass lay-offs of…
The new report ‘What a waste’ from makeITfair reveals the health and environmental problems of the uncontrolled flow of e-waste from Europe to Ghana. Each month, around 600 containers of second-hand electronics arrive in Ghana….
MakeITfair’s report “Out of focus” on digital camera companies in Vietnam reveals that the major issue faced by workers is the lack of freedom of association and collective bargaining power. Although the Vietnamese labour law…
Europe must seize the chance to stop its e-waste from triggering human rights abuses and environmental damage globally, said human rights and environmental NGOs in an open letter sent to European Environment Ministers today.The groups…