Waste not, want not
For many of us, electronics are part of modern life – cell phones, laptops, TVs and a growing number of gadgets. Sadly, most of these electronics become obsolete or unwanted within one to three years…
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Samsung worker commits suicide in protest against harsh labor control
On October 31, Choi Jong-beom killed himself in protest against Samsung’s harsh labor control. Choi worked 12-hour shifts in peak season, struggled with financial problems and suffered from management’s harassment. Choi is survived by his…
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GoodElectronics confronts ASMI with death of factory worker
Following the recent tragic suicide by Ming Kunpeng, a 27-year old factory worker from China, who suffered from occupational leukaemia, GoodElectronics has addressed a letter to Dutch electronics company ASMI, the mother company of ASMPT…
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Apple nominated for “Eyesore of the year Award” for its cut and run strategy
Apple Inc. is nominated for the “Eyesore of the Year 2013″, because the company relocated parts of its production to Pegatron in June 2013, after worldwide protests against the working conditions at supplier Foxconn. It’s…
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South Korea: how long will the government let Samsung have its own way in denial of the Constitution?
It is alleged that the ‘No-Union Policy’ has been the management principle of the Samsung group since it was established 75 years ago. According to information received, a lawmaker disclosed a document on October 14,…
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Benzene-poisoned ASM worker commits suicide in despair
Last Saturday, Chinese factory worker Ming Kunpeng sadly ended his life by jumping from the rooftop of the hospital where he was receiving treatment. His mother was sleeping in his room at the time and…
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FLA’s final report on Apple and Foxconn obscures poor working conditions in China
Fair Labor Association (FLA) has completed its verification at Apple supplier Foxconn. In the third and final “Foxconn Verification Status Report” released on 12 December 2013, FLA claims that 98.9 per cent of the corrective…
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Call upon Apple to use its cash reserves to improve conditions of workers
As the size of Apple’s cash reserves continues to mount, the company has come under increasing pressure to return more of those reserves to shareholders, through dividends and/or stock buy backs. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn…
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Fairphone publishes assessment report of Chinese factory
Following up on earlier blogs on choosing and selecting a production partner, Sean Ansett describes how Fairphone went about to get a baseline understanding of the conditions at their supplier Changhong in Chongqing, China. Fairphone…
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Child worker dies on iPhone 5C production line
China Labor Watch (CLW) has obtained information about the recent sudden deaths of several workers at Pegatron (Shanghai) Ltd Co., a factory primarily making cell phones and tablet PCs for Apple, including iPhone 5C. One…