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Up one levelGreenpeace: Greener electronics guide updated - Toshiba, Apple, Lenovo and Dell criticized
GoodElectronics: Taiwanese electronics trade union at supplier of Samsung continues to face challenges
Electronics TakeBack Coalition: Recycling Report Card - Acer, Sony, Lenovo and Philips lagging behind
Electronics TakeBack Coalition: Recycling Report Card - Dell, Asus and Samsung among the leaders
CSRWire: International Investor Coalition Urgently Calls on Apple, HP and Dell for Improved Working Conditions in Electronics Manufacturing Facilities
GoodElectronics: Electronics companies, including HP, participate in factory-based women’s health initiative in Mexico
SACOM: Calls on Apple CEO Steve Jobs to reform purchasing practice in response to Foxconn suicides
GoodElectronics: Taiwanese electronics workers fight for their rights at Samsung supplier
International Metalworkers' Federation: One more Samsung worker dies – activists arrested
BusinessGreen: Congo tracking project aims to end IT industry's use of "blood tin" - Apple, Dell, HP and Sony mentioned
Global Post - Silicon Sweatshops: An illness in Suzhou, health conditions at Apple supplier worse than previously reported
Philips: Philips delivers strong sustainability performance in 2009 and launches new targets for 2015
Reuters: Apple supplier is a 'fortress of secrecy'; Journalist roughed up by security guards
Greenpeace: Small Indian company produces green computer sooner than Dell, Samsung and Lenovo
Breitbart: thousands of workers on strike at Chinese Apple supplier over pay and use of toxic chemicals
Goodwill Industries: 96 million pounds of e-waste recycled in US in partnership with Dell
GoodElectronics: Labour rights issues not adressed at supplier of Apple, Samsung and Lenovo
Guardian: climate change survey shows Acer is increasing emissions and not setting targets to reduce them
Cereal: In the Mexican crisis, the workers save the electronics industry but in return labour conditions worsen - HP, Lenovo and Philips mentioned
Global Post: Silicon sweatshop series - new allegations of labour violations at Apple's supplier
Green Electronics Daily: HP Voluntarily Collecting Data from Supply Chain on 240 Chemicals
Greenpeace India: Philips 'strongly resisting' individual responsibility for e-waste problem
Goodelectronics: HP has stated new environmental commitments in response to recent Greenpeace actions
Business & Human Rights: HP launches mini pilot on principles for company-level grievance mechanisms
Electronic Industry Workers Coalition (EIWC): worker demands in Mexico denied by supplier of HP, Dell, Philips and Lenovo
Amnesty International: Human exploitation fuels mining trade in DRC: Apple, Dell look away
China Labour Bulletin: CLB urges Apple to investigate reports of serious management misconduct at China supplier factory - also appeals to Lenovo
China Labour Bulletin has written to major electronics companies, including Apple, Nokia and Motorola, urging them to investigate reports of excessive overtime, management abuse and the firing of striking workers at Wintek Dongguan Masstop, one of their major suppliers in China. An investigation by Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) showed that employees at Dongguan Masstop, part of the Taiwan-based Wintek Group, were forced to work more than 100 hours overtime each month (including public holidays) so that the factory could fulfill its orders. Those who refused to work additional hours were given a demerit and fined 60 yuan.
The Times Online: Britain is hit hard in Hewlett-Packard’s plan to cut 5,700 jobs
Hewlett-Packard struck a further blow to the beleaguered manufacturing industry yesterday by cutting hundreds of jobs in Britain as part of a move to lose 5,700 positions in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (Emea) region. The printers group blamed plummeting demand for computers, printers and IT services for the job losses, which are part of a big savings drive. More than 700 full and part-time workers at its plant in Erskine, Renfrewshire, were made redundant yesterday. The company is moving production of servers and storage devices to the Czech Republic to save money. About 15,000 of its full-time employees in Emea – including thousands of UK workers – will lose their jobs as part of a programme that began in September and will run until May 2011, the company said.
Greenwash: E-waste trade is the unacceptable face of recycling - HP, Acer and Lenovo criticised
IT News Africa: HP South Africa launches innovative recycling programme
Hewlett Packard (HP) has introduced a business-to-business recycling and take-back programme in an effort to promote environmentally friendly practices in the IT industry. Through the programme, businesses are encouraged to dispose of their electronic waste, which will be collected and recycled by HP.
Goodelectronics: Chinese battery supplier to Sony and Toshiba continues to ignore demands of workers poisoned with cadmium.
For years now, the Chinese company Gold Peak Batteries Limited is at loggerheads with civil society groups in China as well as abroad over recurring Occupational Health and Safety issues. In 2004, an outbreak of cadmium poisoning cases occurred in four subsidiary factories of Gold Peak Batteries in mainland China as well as in Hong Kong. One case concerns the cadmium poisoning of workers of the Gold Peak Batteries plant in Hong Kong. Another case concerns the cadmium poisoning of workers at JetPower, a Gold Peak subsidiary based in Shenzhen, China. Workers of this factory recently struck up new protests against the projected closure of the Shenzhen plant, for fear their medical claims will not be resolved. Starting from last week, 10 JetPower workers with excessive cadmium levels started a new round of action again and take turn (24hours) to stop JP plant to deliver their products. They have been demanding negotiation with management on their compensation package. ... Gold Peak Batteries has long-established supply agreements with some of the world’s biggest consumer brands. Gold Peak rechargeable batteries and components are used in electronic products manufactured by Black & Decker, Canon, Casio, EverReady, Fuji, JVC, Kodak, Konica, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus, Panasonic, Pentax, Rayovac, Ricoh, Siemens, Sony, SonyEricsson, Toshiba and Uniden, to name some. Its batteries are found in cordless and wireless phones, toys, power tools, and are sold across the world.
Goodelectronics: HP reports on worker labour rights awareness training program at Chinese supplier
In its Global Citizenship report 2009, Hewlett Packard reports on the labour rights awareness training program that is currently under way at its Chinese supplier Chicony. The report also provides an interview with the training partner and the management at the HP supplier factory. SACOM, a participant in the training programme is a member of the GoodElectronics network.
WEED & SACOM: Fujitsu Siemens Refuses to Take Responsibility for Labor Rights Violations in its Supply Chain!
Taiwanese-invested Compeq Manufacturing Co., Ltd. has been communicating closely with SACOM and WEED following the release of /The Dark Side of Cyberspace Report /in December 2008. The report uncovers serious violation of workers rights such as excessive overtime hours, payment below the legal minimum wage and an authoritarian system of labor control...SACOM was impressed by these stakeholders’ strong commitment to continuously improving labor and environmental standards in the electronics industry. ... Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC), while awarding Excelsior a preferred Chinese supplier in 2007, positions itself as merely “an observer” in this serious case of worker exploitation. Behind the facade of the FSC code of conduct, there seems no real effort on FSC’s part to collaborate with Excelsior to take concrete corrective actions.
