Pollution, child labour and high death rates in the mines were among the problems exposed by makeITfair last year in mining areas that supply minerals to the electronics industry. Under pressure from the makeITfair campaign,…
During 2008, TimetoTurn will run a campaign against injustice in the production of cellphones. TimetoTurn wants to break the connection between injustice and our cellphones.The facts are clear, but consumers don’t know about it. TimetoTurn…
Globalisation is not just about how things are made, bought and sold. It’s also about people. Transnational companies want cheap and flexible workers. So they have shifted from secure to insecure employment – making all…
Social and environmental considerations in public procurement need to be vamped up. This is the conclusion of the latest ProcureITFair publication ‘Sustainable Procurement in a European Context: practices of IT procurement in five EU countries’,…
The GoodElectronics annual Round Table meeting took place this year in Jakarta, Indonesia. With over 50 participants from all over the world, the Round Table was a successful event, examining developments that currently affect the…
Please join GoodElectronics in its Urgent Appeal and call upon Hoya Thailand, parent company Hoya Japan and the buyers to ensure that the labour union has an equal say in the resolution of the conflict,…
Ole Wolff, a Danish-owned electronics factory in China is accused of sacking trade unionists and refuses to follow a court order. ‘Not my responsibility’, says the company’s CEO.Ole Wolff refuses to recognise a workplace union…
The mobile phone industry is often presented as a clean, unproblematic industry, but makeITfair’s new report ‘Silenced to Deliver’ shows that this is not the case. Workers’ rights in Asian mobile phone factories are severely…
The Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) offers interested parties the opportunity to submit suggestions for the revision of the EICC Code of Conduct.Transparent stakeholder consultation is clearly not EICC’s forte. GoodElectronics has requested an extension…
The September 2008 issue of Metal World, the magazine of the International Metalworkers Federation (IMF), features an interesting article by Kristyne Peter on organising precarious workers in the Indonesian IT sector.A major challenge for unions…