On the tragic occasion of the death of Yun Seul-ki, the 56th victim of occupational disease at Samsung, campaign groups have issued a Joint Statement. The urgent call is summed up simply: “We cannot afford…
Today, 31 May 2012, the Hong Kong based labour group Students and Scholars against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) has released a report entitled ‘Sweatshops are good for Apple and Foxconn, but not for workers’. SACOM responds…
SumOfUs has launched a new campaign. iPhones and other iGadgets are still made by workers treated unethically, even though Apple pledged to address violations of workers’ rights in its Chinese supply chain. But thus far,…
AMSTERDAM – Philips, HP, Sony, other big electronic brands and telecom providers are meeting in Amsterdam this week with labour organisations and CSOs for a round table on working conditions in the electronics sector. Well…
Electronics manufacturers are seeking ways “to diversify risk by investing or relocating to other countries”, warned Gritsada Suptuaychone, secretary of the Electrical, Electronics and Allied Industries club under the Federation of Thai Industries in November…
The FLA report ‘Independent investigation of Apple’s supplier Foxconn’ confirms abusive labour conditions as have been reported over the past years by local and international labour groups. GoodElectronics and makeITfair welcome the FLA efforts but…
January 2012, Apple joined the Fair Labor Association (FLA) and subsequently opened its suppliers to for factory inspections. After a month-long investigation at Foxconn in Shenzhen and Chengdu, FLA released a report on Thursday in…
In a joint statement issued, dated March 22, unions and NGOs called on Apple to rely on workers themselves to monitor the labour conditions in the manufacture of its products, not a top-down auditing approach….