No golden future
SOMO and Center for Research and Sustainable Solutions, commissioned by the Stop Child Labour Coalition, conduct research into the use of child labour in gold mining in Uganda. The report No Golden Future contains the results…
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Chinese Unicom workers unite against outsourcing efforts
Long-term agency workers for Chinese telecom operator Unicom protested at the company office in Dazhou, Sichuan after their contracts were terminated. While Unicom has relied on agency workers for a long time, the government recently…
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Occupational safety violations at Dongguan Chengming Electronic factory
After receiving a complaint through email, saying that a worker passed away because of a heart attack whilst working at Dongguan Chenming Electronic Company, China Labor Watch conduct an undercover investigation. They found severe violations…
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Apple, Foxconn and Chinese workers’ struggles from a global labor Perspective
In the latest issue of Inter-Asia Cultural Studies an article has been published about Apple’s value chain, Foxconn’s mode of labor control, and Chinese workers’ struggles. The following abstract has been released: “To enrich the…
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20 ICT firms ranked on supply chain forced labour
KnowTheChain released its first ranking of ICT companies with regard to their efforts in mitigating forced labour in their supply chains. For the twenty global ICT companies that were evaluated by KnowTheChain, the average score was…
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Trade unions in the Philippines develop organizers
IndustriALL Philippines held a three-day training workshop on organizing skills to enhance the capacity of field organizers. The training was designed to enhance the skills and knowledge of field organizers to enable them to effectively carry…
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Another Samsung contractor-repairperson is killed on the job
A Samsung contractor-repairman has fallen to death while he attempted to fix an air-conditioner from three stories up, adding to a rising death toll of repairpersons who, hired on a contract basis by Samsung’s outsourcing network, committed suicide, died of overwork, or was killed…
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SHARPS keeps keen eye on Samsung’s ombudsman committee
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. June 8 launched an Ombudsman Committee on Leukemia of Samsung, (Ombudsman), an external monitoring structure agreed to by SHARPS in January 2016. Three Years The ombudsman currently seats labor law professor…
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Fairphone announces ‘good vibrations’ with conflict-free tungsten in its supply chain
With the integration of conflict-free tungsten in the supply chain, Fairphone has now set up traceable supply chains for all four (tungsten, tin, tantalum and Fairtrade gold) internationally recognized conflict minerals. About fifty percent of…
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Open letter to the Dutch Presidency for effective EU law on conflict minerals
Civil society groups call for effective EU law on conflict minerals in letter to Dutch Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the Member States of the European Union. Civil society organisations have…