Sometimes companies need to be reminded of their environmental commitments–like HP’s 2007 promise to stop putting toxic chemicals in their computer products. That’s why Greenpeace activists climbed to the top of HP’s global headquarters in…
This new report by Global Witness, entitled ‘Faced with a gun, what can you do?’, details how companies are buying from suppliers who trade in minerals from the warring parties. Many mining areas in eastern…
Since early June, workers are protesting labour conditions at Flextronics in Guadalajara, Mexico. Singapore-based Flextronics is a global manufacturer of printed circuit boards, producing for numerous brands, including Sony Ericsson, Motorola, HP, Nokia, IBM, LG,…
Petition launched by National Federation of Independent Trade Unions (NAFITU), WINTEK bargaining team, Solidarity Union, Youth Labor Union 95, Taiwan Labor Information & Education Association in support of the protests of the Wintek workers in…
A significant victory for the dismissed workers of the Nokia plant in Reynosa, Mexico. Court cases started by CEREAL and the Electronics Industry Workers Coalition against Nokia, Manpower and Adecco were settled to the advantage…
On 13 July, the founding ceremony of the Wintek Youshi Union or ‘Wintek Youth Union’ took place. The Wintek Youshi Union is a workplace union of workers at Wintek’s Youshi plant in Taiwan.On 13 July,…
ProcureITfair publishes ‘Buy IT fair’, a guideline that shows how public institutions can avoid buying IT-products that were produced under violation of workers rights. With ‘Buy IT fair’ , ProcureITfair will intensify its efforts to…
In ‘Legal and illegal blurred. Update on tin production for consumer electronics in Indonesia’, FinnWatch describes severe environmental destruction as a result of unregulated informal tin mining operations in Indonesia. The global electronics industry is…
The EICC-GeSI Supply Chain Mapping Project will investigate the supply chain for tin (solder), tantalum (capacitors and deposition targets), and cobalt (batteries and magnetic recording media) used in electronics. The purpose of this project is…
Electronics manufacturing firm Jabil, producing Blackberry phones in Mexico is doing well, despite the economic crisis, forecasting a 30% increase in exports.Lilia Chacón and Elizabeth Ortiz of El Norte report that the electronics manufacturing firm…