Public service union UNISON became the first trade union to affiliate to Electronics Watch. As the first affiliate outside the public sector, UNISON is participating in a pilot scheme to evaluate the value of it…
The film ‘The e-waste tragedy’ (and 6 other films) can be viewed for free online until the 29th of October. Vote for your favourite film! Is The e-waste tragedy going to be the winner of the…
Fairphone will invest €6.5 million to make fair responsible electronics mainstream.They expect to upscale the production, expand it’s distribution network, continuing innovation and increasing its influence in the supply chain. These investments enables them to…
The GFA (Global Framework Agreement) is a first for an e-commerce brand, and will establish a framework for protecting and strengthening the rights of workers producing ASOS own-brand products in countries around the world. IndustriALL…
Bosses all over the world are using precarious work to undermine workers’ conditions and rights. Zero-hours, outsourcing, contracting, casual, agency, short term, indirect, temporary, self-employed: its all part of the same attack on decent work….
As OLED becomes the ‘screen of choice’ analysts say that panels for smartphones will roughly triple over the next five years, while the market for LCD panels will fall 14%. The value of global OLED panel shipments…
Migrant workers form the Chinese countryside, who leave their hometown to find employment in industrial cities, see an end to the big rises of their wages. Last year the growth fell below 7 percent. Policy…
The whole world is one global supply chain. Brand name companies like Nike, Apple, Hasbro, and dozens of apparel companies do not actually make the consumer products they sell. Instead they hire contract manufacturers in…
Ten years ago the first iPhone went on sale. The iconic product not only profoundly altered the world of gadgets, but also of consumption and tall corporate profit; this world would be impossible without the…
As China charges ahead with the production of smartphones, electrolyte makers have been racing to mass-produce low-cost components for the consumer Li-ion battery market. Chinese manufacturers are also the dominant players for other battery components….