Organisations from across the world have signed on to a letter to Lexmark expressingoutrage and concern for workers at Lexmark’s factory in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. Since last November hundreds of employees have been protesting…
A study from several Brazilian NGOs has revealed very high rates of mercury poisoning among the Indian Yanomami and Yekuana tribes in the Amazonian rainforest, caused by illegal gold mining activities. In one region, over…
The European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) The European Trade Union Institute is the independent research and training centre of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC) which itself affiliates European trade unions into a single European…
Potential suppliers of flexible OLED panels for Apple’s next generation of iPhones are competing for orders, according to Korean industry insiders. Apple has already ordered 60,000 panels from Samsung Display. Other companies that are in…
A Collective Bargaining Agreement was signed between the all women Hye Sung Workers Union (HSWU) – Independent and the management of Hye Sung Industries (Phils.) Inc. (HSIPI) management, on 4 December 2015. The CBA was…
Commemorating International Women’s Day, Forum for Information Technology Employees (FITE) Chennai chapter, took to the streets, distributing leaflets around TIDEL Park on IT Corridor. The leaflet discussed various forms of discrimination women suffer within a…
A group of human rights defenders in Northeast Thailand has been forced into a frivolous and damaging case in court, due to their attempts to protect community resources against a gold mining operation. The electronics…
SumOfUs is calling upon the Scottish Government in a petition to be the first government to join Electronics Watch, so others will follow and public spending on electronics can help achieve respect for labour rights…
Mexican labour rights organisation CETIEN is trying to raise awareness of the sexual violence that frequently occurs at the large maquiladoras in the electronics industry in Jalisco. With this project CETIEN hopes to make sexual…
The surprising thing about the Honda plant at Tapukera, Rajasthan in India, is that it has not been in the news lately. On February 16th, it was the scene of an attack on striking workers…