On behalf of the Sony Thailand Union and 18 dismissed Union Leaders, a petition addressed to Sony Holding B.V. The Netherlands was handed over on the 13th of September by Lek Yimprasert from the Thai…
Disgruntled IBM workers in Italy are planning to stage a “strike” inside the Second Life virtual world, targeting facilities run by their employer.About 500 IBM employees from 18 countries had signed up to help stage…
A new complaint is reported against a multinational company in Brazil. This case was presented for PNC in Brazil and Netherlands in Agust. It was prepared by CUT (the largest federation of trade unions in…
Petition: On behalf of the dismissed Sony Technology (Thailand) workers and the Sony Union (Thailand) On July 12, 2007, 18 workers of Sony Technology Thailand[1] were dismissed, one day before the general congress of the…
The vast majority of the production of electronics parts is outsourced to contract manufacturers operating in so-called low cost countries. China takes a lead in hosting electronics production factories. Since 1999, the electronics industry has…
Mobile telephones and mobile phone components are often produced under poor working conditions. Management of the factories often fail to take responsibility, as SOMO research shows.SOMO researcher Joseph Wilde explains: “Particularly in the Chinese and…
ICT companies Acer and Fujitsu Siemens are having their products made in China and the Philippines under poor working conditions.SOMO conducted research in nine factories in China and the Philippines that supply parts for Acer…
SOMO research shows that ICT production in countries that are perceived as cheaper is often combined with poor working conditions. Since its beginning in the early 1980s, the sector has experienced rapid growth characterised by…