Same as his predecessors, President Rodrigo Duterte’s midterm track record leaves behind anti-worker policies, poor employment, and stagnant real wages in the Philippines, despite increasing labor productivity and buzz over high economic growth rates, according…
Foxconn chairman, Terry Gou, announces run for Taiwan precidency in 2020. A decision which places Foxconn’s leadership in an uncertain future. Foxconn is Apple’s largest iPhone supplier, yet this relationship with Apple could be at…
Lee Jong-ran (right), labor attorney with SHARPS, helps Hwang Sang-ki (left), a SHARPS founder, put on a clean suit ahead of a rally against Samsung in 2016. Samsung listed Lee and Hwang as “persons of…
Tesla and Panasonic delay plans to increase capacity at their Gigafactory in the US. Leading to growing concerns among investors about the volume of electric car sales, which continually fall below the company’s expectations. Panasonic…
Electronics Watch has released a regional risk assessment of the electronics industry in Indonesia which suggests that risks of breach of the rights to freedom of employment, freedom of association and collective bargaining, limits on working hours, and health and safety…
Violence and harassment affect the lives of millions women workers on a daily basis. Yet there is still no law at the international level that sets a baseline for taking action to eradicate violence and…
A young female worker at a Korean semiconductor plant dies due to the cumulative effects of her on-the-job chemical exposure. Yet, amid this her employer seeks to invalidate her workers compensation. SHARPS report that the…
Apple’ suppliers in China have continued to grow since 2011, reaching 41 and surpassing other major manufacturing areas for Apple like Japan and even the US – with 37 and 38 suppliers respectively. Analysis of Apple’s…
Communities of the Salinas Grandes basin and Laguna Guayatayoc, in Argentina, are protesting against mining companies which are developing lithium mining operations on indigenous land. The target companies (Losi and Ekeko) are part of a…
The 2018 Annual Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics outlines the deadly consequences of toxic exposure in the workplace. In fact, around 2.8 million workers a year die due to unsafe or unhealthy conditions,…