A short documentary by Heather White reveals the hazards of the electronics industry in China profiling workers, many of them teenagers, poisoned by chemicals and their struggle for compensation. The film is now available online.A…
On the day of Apple’s annual general meeting, Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) is urging Apple again to take immediate and constructive action to fulfil its corporate responsibility by improving the working conditions…
Last week, GoodElectronics wrote about an alarming situation in Malaysia, where 32 migrant workers from Myanmar lost their passports to their employer SONY. We are now informed that there’s a complaint filed with the Human…
China Labor Watch has published an investigative report that reveals major labour abuses at Quanta Shanghai Manufacturing City (QSMC), a supplier to brands like Sony, Apple, and Dell. QSMC is a subsidiary of Taiwan Quanta…
In late January, SOMO hosted a meeting in Amsterdam for Project Partners and Steering Committee Members of the GoodElectronics Network. The occasion was a substantial subsidy from the European Commission which will help GoodElectronics move…
On January 16, the Joint Audit Co-operation (JAC) held its 3rd Forum on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility in Chengdu, China, where it launched its Supply Chain Sustainability Guidelines. These guidelines form a set of…
“We, employees of Myanmar hereby request the responsible person of this organization to assist with our hardships”. Through this message, GoodElectronics learned about an alarming situation in Malaysia concerning 32 Myanmar factory workers of Sony….
Occupational poisoning has become one of the gravest occupational diseases in China. It tends to happen in clusters around some industries, among which the electronics industry. In this paper, Juliana So seeks to ascertain the…
At about 8 a.m. on 17 March 2010, a 17-year-old worker, Tian Yu, went to the window of her fourth story dorm room at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen and jumped. Tian Yu survived. Yet…
Workers in the electronics industry in the Chennai region of India face appalling labour conditions, says Laura Ceresna of Cividep on Austrian radio. She describes how young workers hailing from rural areas are made to…