Coolproducts is a campaign to set ambitious minimum requirements for energy efficiency and other environmental aspects of products sold in the European Union. If we are successful, it will become easier for consumers in Europe…
Earlier this year, RESOLVE was commissioned by the EICC and GeSI Extractives Workgroup to create a transparency model by mapping the supply chain for tin, tantalum, and cobalt. RESOLVE has prepared an initial interim report…
Accelerating mobile PC shipments will drive the worldwide PC market to grow again this year, according to Gartner’s preliminary fourth-quarter forecast. The new forecast predicts worldwide PC shipments will total 298.9 million units in 2009,…
Since December 2008, Chinese and Taiwanese trade unions and labour groups are protesting ongoing labour issues at Wintek facilities in Taiwan, and in China. The complaints range from unlawful dismissals, forced unpaid leave, strike busting,…
European metal unions came together at the 6th European Metalworkers’ Federation (EMF) Collective Bargaining Policy Conference November 17 and 18, to debate and endorse a second Europe-wide common demand for more secure employment against precarious…
An IMF conference on ‘Migrant Workers as Precarious Workers’ held in Bangkok examined the situation of migrant workers in the metal industry with the aim of developing union strategies to improve their rights. Participants from…
In the Mexican crisis, the workers save the electronics industry but in return labour conditions worsen. What has happened to workers in the supply chains of Nokia, Philips, Panasonic, IBM, HP, Lenovo, Sanmina, Jabil and…
Of late, the Chinese not-for profit organisation Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM), supported by the Swiss NGO Bread for All, released two reports on in-factory labour rights training programmes at two China-based suppliers…
Thousands of signatories joined makeITfair in its call towards mobile phone companies to pay greater attention to social standards in their supply chains.”This campaign, organised by makeITfair, continued to collect more than 7,800 signatures calling…
There are lots of ways to fool environmental inspectors, writes Greenpeace China. Here a look is taken at how factories in China do it. Water pollution is one of China’s most critical environmental problems. Greenpeace…