Chinese battery producer Gold Peak Industrial Holding Ltd is under fire by Chinese and international labour groups for failing to be a decent employer. Year-long struggles of (ex-) workers with cadmium related health problems have…
With a shift in recycling and production of consumer electronics, the E-waste problem can be addressed. The ‘E-waste policy paper’, published today by SOMO, provides proposals for policy and action.Reports about the piling up of…
One of every two mobile phones is manufactured in China. In 2008, makeITfair published a report about poor working conditions at factories that mobile phone companies source from. One year later, two of the factories…
When centrally controlled economic systems collapsed and the markets of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) opened up to foreign capital, most of the world’s big electronics companies started to invest in the region. How did…
Despite the independent union movement’s continued push for greater freedom of association, major obstacles to achieving this right persist, including corruption in Mexican labour institutions and endemic obstruction practices by employers and government. In the…
A fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate change solution on the table in Copenhagen and in the halls of Congress. If you’ve heard about cap and trade, but aren’t sure how it works (or…
Today, Dell announced the transfer of ownership of the Polish Dell factory in Lodz to one of the world’s biggest electronics producers, Foxconn. Dell expects the European Commission to approve the transfer in the coming…
The report: “Greening Consumer Electronics: Moving Away from Bromine and Chlorine” features seven companies who have engineered environmental solutions that negate the need for most — or in some cases all — uses of brominated…
On 19 November 2009, Representative Mike Thompson introduced a resolution that calls on the US Congress to craft a plan to deal with its own e-waste, only using recyclers certified to the new e-Stewards Standard…
