After six years of campaigns and petitions over 56 occupational-disease deaths at the world’s largest chip maker, SHARPS has agreed to enter dialogue with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. over the question of compensation for the…
January 22nd, over a thousand workers of the “Phase III assembly line” of a Foxconn production site located in the Technological Develop Zone, Daxing District, Beijing, China, went on strike. They assembled at the canteen,…
Samsung and Apple almost certainly use tin in their mobiles that’s come from Bangka Island – where tin mining is ravaging forests and coral reefs, injuring miners and destroying fishermen’s livelihoods. Friends of the Earth…
How are the factory workers making Apple products treated? www.AppleLabor.com aims to be a comprehensive online library of research and coverage on the labor conditions faced by Apple’s factory workers.www.AppleLabor.com aims to be a comprehensive online…
EICC is working to improve transparency across the electronics value chain as a step in enhancing implementation of the EICC Code of Conduct. EICC is promoting common and comparable KPIs, and intends to help companies…
Migrant workers in Malaysia’s electronics industry are heavily indebted by the time they start working because of extortionate fees of recruitment agencies. Migrant workers are paid less, sometimes even only half, of what they were…
In December 2012, the draft Information and Communciation technology (ICT) sector guidance was released for public consultation (closing date 13th February). This is part of a initiative of European Commission to develop guidance on the…
En plein rush des achats de tablettes, smartphones et autres iBooks, achACT dresse un bilan des évolutions de l’industrie de l’électronique portable en matière de conditions de travail dans les usines de production. achACT analyse…
The Korean government agency KCOMWEL (Korea Compensation & Welfare Services) has announced its recognition of the death of Ms. D.E. Kim from breast cancer as an occupational death from her work at Samsung Semiconductor plant….
December 9, a militant farmer and two anti-mining activists were killed in separate incidents. RThe farmer’s relatives believe the attack is linked to his opposition to large-scale mining and illegal logging. Anti-mining advocates were also…