Workers as machines: military management in Foxconn
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I was a fool to believe in Samsung
International labour groups continue to call for global actions and demand Samsung and the Korean Government to accept responsibility for occupational deaths and to provide safe and decent working conditions. Last April 28, on Workers’…
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US-owned Jabil factory in China is run like minimum security prison
On 29 June, the National Labor Committee released a 30-page report documenting the illegal and harsh sweatshop conditions at the Jabil Circuit factory in Guangzhou, China. Reportedly, over 6,000 workers -many of them illegal temporary…
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Chinese trade union ACFTU publishes report on problems of migrant workers in China
A recently published report by the All-China Federation of Trade Union (ACFTU) explores the differences between the new generation of migrant workers in China and their parents’ generation, in terms of their backgrounds, their work-life…
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Electronics companies participate in factory-based women’s health initiative in Mexico
HERproject, Health Enables Return, is a factory-based women’s health initiative by BSR that aims to provide positive benefits for women and business. Following the 2-3 June 2010 partner meeting, BSR has now published the ‘Guidance…
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Is EICC protecting Apple and Foxconn on recent worker suicides?
On May 28th, under mounting pressure from labor rights group and concerned scholars around the world, the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) Board of Directors expressed that they were saddened about the loss of life…
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Institutions of higher education in Europe to take up sustainable procurement of computers. Online petition by Procure IT Fair
Today, Procure IT Fair launches an online petition urging European universities and polytechnics to include social criteria into their procurement processes and to endorse a resolution ensuring social responsibility in the procurement of computers at…
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Help wanted. Hiring, human trafficking, modern-day slavery in the global economy
Verité has examined the role of labor brokers in supply chain production. There is no industry more dynamic and global than that of electrical and electronics manufacturing, and thus it served as an excellent sector…
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Ten dead and 300 injured
Ten dead and 300 injured”. This is not the toll of a natural disaster, but of the repression faced by workers attempting to exercise their trade union rights during 2009 in the Asia-Pacific region. The…
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Migration in the context of globalisation: women’s human rights at risk
The WIDE Annual Conference “Migration in the Context of Globalisation: Women’s Human Rights at risk”, which recently took place in Romania critically assessed how in times of crises, migration, trade, economic development and globalization impact…