IndustriALL Global Union’s network of coal mining unions met in Delhi, India, to escalate efforts to achieve a ‘Just Transition’ in order to defend coal miners’ interests in the face of challenges from climate change,…
GoodElectronics Network representing organisations and individuals worldwide, including trade unions, labour and human rights organisations, environmental groups, academics, researchers and advocates from civil society organizations, expresses concerns on the situation of striking unionists and workers…
Workers Decry Union Busting SMT Philippines Inc., a Japanese company producing and supplying USB for Toshiba and motherboard for EPSON printers closes operation without notice last, October 1, 2018, in what the workers’ union says…
Press agency Reuters reports on plans to build 15 to 20 factories in Europe that will produce battery cells for electric cars. These include factories in Sweden, Germany, Hungary, Finland, Poland and England. A major…
A group of workers of Shenzhen Jasic Technology Co., Ltd organized to exercise their right to Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining and setting up their own trade union according to the legal procedures. However,…
by Jenny Chan – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Last month students and recent graduates from more than a dozen mainland Chinese universities stood up in solidarity support with workers of Jasic Technology, a private…
Electronics company Samsung accepted the arbitration proposal on compensation for hundreds of South Korean workers that suffered from severe diseases such as leukemia caused by unsafe working conditions. The agreement was signed on July 24….
Cobalt is an important mineral for the manufacturing of batteries in electronics and electric vehicles. The fact that a couple of mining companies in the United States are staking claims at sites in Idaho, Montana…
Andrew Smith and Alice Lepeuple from the English firm Corker Binning wrote a blog on holding companies criminally liable for human rights abuses from a judicial point of view. They describe the legal challenges that…
The Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei is on it’s way up. It recently passed Apple to become second-largest smartphone maker behind Samsung Electronics. In the second quarter of this year the shipments of Huawei have increased…