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News / March 9, 2016

Ask the Scottish Government to join Electronics Watch

SumOfUs is calling upon the Scottish Government in a petition to be the first government to join Electronics Watch, so others will follow and public spending on electronics can help achieve respect for labour rights…

News / March 8, 2016

Sexual harassment in maquiladoras, Mexico

Mexican labour rights organisation CETIEN is trying to raise awareness of the sexual violence that frequently occurs at the large maquiladoras in the electronics industry in Jalisco. With this project CETIEN hopes to make sexual…

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News / March 8, 2016

Ongoing struggle of workers at Honda factory India

The surprising thing about the Honda plant at Tapukera, Rajasthan in India, is that it has not been in the news lately. On February 16th, it was the scene of an attack on striking workers…

News / March 2, 2016

Indonesian union adopts 40 per cent women quota

IndustriALL Global Union Indonesian affiliate, FSPMI, has adopted a 40 per cent quota for women in its leadership structures at its Congress on 10 February 2016. IndustriALL Global Union Indonesian affiliate, FSPMI, has adopted a…

News / February 24, 2016

Joint statement against migrant worker levy Malaysia

Malaysian human rights advocate Charles Hector and 97 organisations, trade unions and groups have published and signed a joint statement against the migrant worker levy in Malaysia. The Malaysian government is increasing the levy to…

News / February 24, 2016

Samsung Steps Up Smear Campaign Against SHARPS And Cluster Victims

Samsung, the world’s largest technology firm by revenue, continues to shift the blame to victims of its occupational disease cluster and to play off them one against another, in a move to move the cluster…

News / February 22, 2016

Barcelona City Council has joined Electronics Watch

The Barcelona City Council has affiliated to Electronics Watch, thereby making a social and environmental commitment to the workers of the electronics industry. This statement coincided with the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona, an…

News / February 18, 2016

Race to the bottom: Sacrifice of workers on the altar of investors

Thozhilalar koodam, a blog on labour issues in Tamil Nadu, posted an about the remarkable fact that the corporations Foxconn and General Motors have shut down production plants in India at the same time that…

News / February 15, 2016

CEREAL presents documentary about labour movement Ciudad Juárez

Mexican NGO CEREAL has released a short documentary about the labour movement in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. The documentary ‘Ciudad Juarez: the awakening of the workers’ is about the low-wage maquiladora sector in the Mexican city,…

News / February 10, 2016

Scandal: Inside the global supply chains of 50 top companies

The ITUC Frontlines report 2016, Scandal: Inside the global supply chains of 50 top companies exposes a hidden workforce of 116 million people. Around 60% of global trade in the real economy is dependent on…

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