How is Viet Nam’s electronics supply chain recovering from the impacts of COVID-19? 🤔 A new ILO report identifies the post-pandemic opportunities and challenges for advancing decent work.
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Apple and Foxconn have their eye on Karnataka, in South India, to build a very large factory producing iPhones there. They are using their corporate influence to push for relaxation of labor laws. According to…
Fatalities in a Chinese-owned nickel smelting company in Indonesia have triggered hundreds of workers to strike to demand justice. The strike happened after failed negotiations between the union and the company. The article details the…
14 December, 2022 – The deadly accident in a coal mine in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan on 30 November was not a stand-alone incident. Nine workers were killed and four others sustained critical injuries…
DesignNews tackles the trend in semiconductors and chips market for 2023. In the article, several indicators show a downward trajectory in terms of revenue driven by weakened PC market as well as decline in capital expenditures…
In a Change.Org petition, civil society organisations demand that Apple Inc. take on its social responsibility to thoroughly investigate the incident at Zhengzhou’s Foxconn factory. Since late October, footage depicting Foxconn workers’ experience of brutal…
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…
On Monday 11 July 2022, the ILO International Training Centre organises a webinar titled ‘A safe and healthy working environment is now a fundamental principle and right at work’. The presentation will be delivered via…