Samsung, the world’s largest technology firm by revenue, continues to shift the blame to victims of its occupational disease cluster and to play off them one against another, in a move to move the cluster…
The Barcelona City Council has affiliated to Electronics Watch, thereby making a social and environmental commitment to the workers of the electronics industry. This statement coincided with the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, an…
Thozhilalar koodam, a blog on labour issues in Tamil Nadu, posted an about the remarkable fact that the corporations Foxconn and General Motors have shut down production plants in India at the same time that…
Mexican NGO CEREAL has released a short documentary about the labour movement in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The documentary ‘Ciudad Juarez: the awakening of the workers’ is about the low-wage maquiladora sector in the Mexican city,…
The ITUC Frontlines report 2016, Scandal: Inside the global supply chains of 50 top companies exposes a hidden workforce of 116 million people. Around 60% of global trade in the real economy is dependent on…
Supporters for the Health And Rights of People in the Semiconductor industry (SHARPS) report on the death of Ms Lee Ji-hye, again another Samsung employee to die of cancer.Supporters for the Health And Rights of…
GoodElectronics Thailand (GET) organized its annual meeting among affiliated members at the Thai Confederation of Trade Union (TCTU) Office in Rayong Province on January 16 and 17. The purpose of the meeting was to work…
The Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC), host agency for the Sustainable Electronics Initiative (SEI), recently announced the publication of a new research report (TR-061): “Reducing E-Waste Through Purchasing Decisions.The Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC), host agency…
The Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) launches a new series of Global Political Economy Briefs, starting with a Brief on ‘Ethical Audits and the Supply Chains of Global Corporations’. This new publication demonstrates that,…
The Sustainable Trade Initiative (Dutch acronym IDH for Initiatief Duurzame Handel) has launched a website that shows what has been accomplished over the past five years in the Chinese electronics industry. The site explains the…