Tesla, Inc. has signed US$5 billion worth of deals to buy nickel products from Indonesia. According to Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Indonesia’s coordinating minister for maritime affairs and investment, Tesla has signed a five-year contract with…
Rights advocates call on electric car makers to tackle human rights abuses in the supply chain as the transition toward electric cars and other new energy technologies, as well as the global competition to extract…
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) national health and safety committee met on 4 August in Johannesburg to discuss the impact of the union’s health and safety campaigns and training programmes in the mining, energy,…
Four electronic chip firms in the northern region of Malaysia employing about 4,500 workers, have refused to talk about a new collective bargaining agreement, according to a union representative. A collective bargaining agreement inked in…
The demand for the raw materials in batteries has increased as sales of electric vehicles (EVs) continue to grow. While China dominates the lithium supply chain, Western nations sought to develop their own production. Australia, which…
Samsung workers in a smartphone plant in Vietnam say that the company has reduced its output as merchants and warehouses struggle with growing inventories due to a global decline in consumer spending. In an exclusive…
The U.S. Congress has passed the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 in July with the goal of bolstering American semiconductor supply chains and manufacturing, design and research, as well as the domestic economy and…
TNI and the London Mining Network published a policy paper analysing how a handful of transnational mining corporations control the extraction of minerals at the starting point of the global supply chains for electronics and…
We would like to express our heartfelt condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of our dear Cecil, who passed away on July 6th. Cecil represented the Workers Assistance Centre (WAC) at the GoodElectronics Network…
IndustriALL brought together industry experts in an online meeting to discuss and consolidate the strategy on battery supply chains. “We want to increase our leverage along the battery supply chain, which starts in the mines,…