Indian labour rights group Cividep researches the mobile phone industry in India and supports electronics workers in claiming their rights. India will be producing nearly 95 million mobile phones by 2011 annually, of a value…
IBM workers in Argentina are fighting for union freedom, democracy, decent wages an end to outsourced labour contracts. Throughout the month of May, IBM workers have been denouncing the low wage level, the insufficient pay…
Brandirectory publishes annual overviews of the world’s most valuable brands. The electronics industry is well represented in the 2010 report. Google ranks first and Microsoft third in the Brandirectory. The top 25 includes consumer electronics…
RepRisk has released a report listing the top ten most environmentally and socially criticized companies of 2009. These companies have been severely criticized by the world’s media and NGOs for issues including human rights abuses,…
Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn has seen a wave of suicides among employees of its Longhua plants over the past months. GoodElectronics and makeITfair have published a public statement severly criticising this situation and calling upon…
Over the past months a wave of suicides has occurred at the Foxconn plant of Longhua in southern China. Reportedly, 12 employees all between 18 and 24 years old have attempted to commit suicide. Foxconn…
Since the beginning of 2010, a startling ten Foxconn employees in Shenzhen tried to end their lives. Eight died, while two survived their injuries. All were between 18 and 25 years old—in the prime of…
The Congolese human rights organisation Action against impunity for human rights (ACIDH) has published a report covering the violation of the rights of workers employed by Chinese mining companies in the province of Katanga in…
Touch screen manufacturing workers are fighting for basic rights at Young Fast Optoelectronics (YFO) in Taiwan, a company that supplies to Samsung, LG, HTC and Google. YFO manufactured mobile phones are sold by telecom providers…
India benefits from developments in the electronics industry, but the coin has a clear flip side. In the Indian capital of New Delhi, men, women and children process the waste of electronic products from all…