‘Digitally tagging’ flagship stores with ‘digital graffiti’, the Friends of the Earth campaign ‘Make it Better’ has gone virtual to question Apple and Samsung about the origin of the environmentally unfriendly tin used in their…
In its 2013 Supplier Responsibility report Apple generally stresses the adequacy of its policies and the supposed advances it has made on worker rights. Apple writes about monitoring the progress of corrective actions at Foxconn,…
A statement initiated by Malaysian labour groups and endorsed by 75 human rights organisations from all over the world, calls on the Malaysian government to immediately rescind the decision to allow employers of migrant workers…
January 10th, a strike erupted at a Foxconn production facility in Fengcheng, Jiangxi Province, China. 3,000 workers put down work to protest dire living conditons and demand higher pay. Labour group Students and Scholars Against…
Electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) is currently the largest growing waste stream. It is hazardous, complex and expensive to treat in an environmentally sound manner, and there is a general lack of legislation or enforcement…
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…