The United Nations Global Compact and BSR recently launched the first worldwide guide on traceability, which will help companies and consumers to ensure their material or product is produced responsibly. Supply chain traceability is increasingly…
A report by SOMO published today finds that the Dutch-based company ASM International N.V. (ASMI) should take responsibility for addressing health risks at the factories of its former subsidiary company, ASM Pacific Technology (ASMPT). The…
Unlike those dying in war or major incidents, they are not publicly remembered; yet over 2.3 million people are killed by work worldwide each year – more than by war or AIDS. International Workers Memorial…
In 1924, IBM built its first plant in Endicott, New York. Now, Endicott is a contested toxic waste site. With its landscape thoroughly contaminated by carcinogens, Endicott is the subject of one of the nation’s…
London Universities Purchasing Consortium (LUPC) has become a member of Electronics Watch, the independent monitoring organization for socially responsible public procurement of IT. “We believe that procurement can be a very compelling instrument of social…
A strike by more than a thousand workers at Samsung supplier Shanmukang Technology in Dongguan has come to an after the Korean-owned company agreed to increase overtime rates for weekdays and weekends and double the…
This report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) for the 2014 celebration of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work – on April 28th – reviews the current situation regarding the use of…
On Friday March 21, filmmaker Heather White presented her documentary ‘Who pays the price? The human costs of electronics’ in Eindhoven. The session at the High tech Campus was organised by Dutch trade union confederation…
On April 1, 2014, the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) has issued a revised edition of its Base Code. The Working Hours Clause – though the fundamental principles remain the same – has been rewritten, so…
In a research into grievance mechanisms in the electronics industry in 5 different countries SOMO found that very few workers have trust in the grievance mechanisms in their company. Most workers do not know how…