This report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) for the 2014 celebration of the World Day for Safety and Health at Work – on April 28th – reviews the current situation regarding the use of…
On Friday March 21, filmmaker Heather White presented her documentary ‘Who pays the price? The human costs of electronics’ in Eindhoven. The session at the High tech Campus was organised by Dutch trade union confederation…
On April 1, 2014, the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) has issued a revised edition of its Base Code. The Working Hours Clause – though the fundamental principles remain the same – has been rewritten, so…
In a research into grievance mechanisms in the electronics industry in 5 different countries SOMO found that very few workers have trust in the grievance mechanisms in their company. Most workers do not know how…
Hu Fengchao at first just felt tired. But the 28-year old spray-painter of DVD cases soon was diagnosed with anaemia. He had been working for around a year at Hualu Panasonic AVC Networks Co., Ltd….
Isaac Shapiro and Scott Nova present an assessment of Apple’s latest supplier responsibility report (Apple 2014a), which was released in February and reports on conditions in its supply chain throughout 2013. From their assessment, that…
The efforts of workers at Keyrin Electronics PHILS. Inc. (KEPI) to establish a labour union are thwarted. The Philippines Department of Labour (DOLE) has unilaterally suspended the ongoing pre-election conference for holding a certification election….
On February 13, the Total Call call center in Casablanca, which is owned by the French telecom group Iliad, fired five leaders of the Union Marocaine du Travail (UMT) just one day after they officially…
Smartphones are owned by one in five people. But their production carries a cost; using more than 40 elements that are mined with untold environmental and social effects on every inhabited continent on earth. With…