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Music player and game console manufacturing in China
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Undercover operation exposes illegal dumping of e-waste in Nigeria
Following a three-year undercover investigation, Greenpeace has shown once again that electronic waste – like your old TV set – still isn’t being responsibly recycled like it’s supposed to be. Instead, e-waste is being disguised…
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Metals in mobile phones help finance Congo atrocities
As the Mobile World Congress opens in Barcelona on 16 February, Global Witness is calling on mobile phone manufacturers to audit their supply chains in order to exclude minerals financing the armed conflict in eastern…
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Finnish trade unions talk with Nokia on Mexican conflict
Today, in a special session, trade unions representing Nokia workers in Finland meet with Nokia managers to discuss the ongoing labour rights dispute between Nokia and workers of its Mexican plant in Reynosa. Mexican labour…
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Gender equality at the heart of ILO decent work campaign
The year 2009 is significant in many ways for the International Labour Organization (ILO). It is the 90th anniversary of the founding of the ILO, the 10th anniversary of its gender equality action plan and…
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Mexico violates ILO Convention 87, says new complaint
The International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF) has lodged an unprecedented complaint against the Mexican Government to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Switzerland. Submitted by IMF President Jürgen Peters, the complaint calls on the ILO to…
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Six Philippines labour rights activists released – others still fear arrest
On February 5, 2009, the case against six Philippines labour organiser has been ordered quashed by the Regional Trial court (4th Judicial Region) Oriental Mindoro Branch. The six were immediately released from the Oriental Mindoro…
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High Tech Misery in China
Today, the National Labor Committee (NLC) is releasing a 60-page report, High Tech Misery in China, documenting the grueling hours, low wages and draconian disciplinary measures at the Meitai factory in southern China. The 2,000…
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Nokia stubbornly sticks to its own views in Mexican labour conflict
In November and December 2008, about 1’000 workers at the Nokia plant in Reynosa, Mexico, were dismissed. Reportedly, at least 53 workers were put under pressure to voluntarily sign resignation letters. All workers dismissed were…
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Indonesian company manager send to jail for union busting
The Indonesian trade union FSPMI has succeeded in getting a 1 ½ year prison sentence proclaimed against the local General Manager of PT King Jim Indonesia (KJI). KJI is a consolidated subsidiary of the Japanese…