The Finnish company Nokia used to be the charming ‘girl next door’ among the telecoms. But the takeover by Microsoft has changed it all. It’s the Vietnamese and Indian workers assembling the mobile phones who…
Only six weeks after the latest revelation of child labor in Samsung’s supply chain, China Labor Watch (CLW) has again uncovered child workers and student workers employed under exploitative conditions at a Samsung and Lenovo…
Increasingly, IT-using organizations are looking for computer products that are environmentally preferable and made under socially responsible conditions. Yet, shorter product cycles and growing demand for new technologies puts increasing pressure on industry and its…
Electronics multinational NXP is coming under increasing pressure to reinstate the 24 union members it sacked three months ago in Cabuyao, Philippines. NXP’s corporate strategy in response to the pressure has been to repeatedly delay…
Almost all IT products contain plastics. But, the use of new or “virgin oil” plastics is connected to a number of sustainability problems. Co2 emissions, high resource use in manufacturing and the threat of hazardous…
In an update released August 8th, the Metal Workers Alliance of the Philippines (MWAP) reports on a protest march in front of the NXP plant on August 6th. Around 1000 workers and supporters successfully asserted…
Dutch labour inspection has given Pegatron 3 months to improve the labour conditions in its establishment in Breda, the Netherlands. Earlier this month, complaints from workers revealed that labour conditions were very harsh. Bad ventilation…
On July 7, 24 activists from Milieudefensie, the Dutch chapter of Friends of the Earth International, left their handprints on the front wall of Microsofts headquarter in the Netherlands. Microsoft refuses to engage in fair…
On July 11 in Jungli, Taiwan, the ROCMU-IndustriALL Global Union Organizing Seminar on ICT, Electrical & Electronics Workers took place. 42 union officers from various age groups and 16 plant level unions, including non-affiliated unions…
Another case of child workers, under 16, was uncovered at the Shinyang Electronics factory in Dongguan, China. Making cell phone covers and parts for Samsung, this factory had children work the same long 11-hour night-shifts…