Apple Inc. is nominated for the “Eyesore of the Year 2013″, because the company relocated parts of its production to Pegatron in June 2013, after worldwide protests against the working conditions at supplier Foxconn. It’s…
It is alleged that the ‘No-Union Policy’ has been the management principle of the Samsung group since it was established 75 years ago. According to information received, a lawmaker disclosed a document on October 14,…
Last Saturday, Chinese factory worker Ming Kunpeng sadly ended his life by jumping from the rooftop of the hospital where he was receiving treatment. His mother was sleeping in his room at the time and…
Fair Labor Association (FLA) has completed its verification at Apple supplier Foxconn. In the third and final “Foxconn Verification Status Report” released on 12 December 2013, FLA claims that 98.9 per cent of the corrective…
As the size of Apple’s cash reserves continues to mount, the company has come under increasing pressure to return more of those reserves to shareholders, through dividends and/or stock buy backs. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn…
Following up on earlier blogs on choosing and selecting a production partner, Sean Ansett describes how Fairphone went about to get a baseline understanding of the conditions at their supplier Changhong in Chongqing, China. Fairphone…
China Labor Watch (CLW) has obtained information about the recent sudden deaths of several workers at Pegatron (Shanghai) Ltd Co., a factory primarily making cell phones and tablet PCs for Apple, including iPhone 5C. One…
Today, the Asia Monitor Resource Centre (AMRC), released a book describing the struggles of workers fighting for their basic rights in the electronics industry with a focus on the operations of Samsung Electronics and its…
On 5 December, at the international body meeting, IndustriALL Executive Committee members unanimously approved a petition condemning Samsung Electronics for union busting policy. Samsung Electronics, one of the biggest IT corporations of the world has…
Smartphones from companies such as Apple, Samsung or HTC are among the most popular consumer and lifestyle products today. Unfortunately a whole series of problems occur during the global production process, ranging from bad working…