Health and safety as a strategic organising tool
Unions in South East Asia met last month to discuss how to use occupational health and safety (OHS) as a strategy to organise workers and build strong unions, protecting workers from a hazardous...
View ArticlePakistan’s mines have killed at least 150 workers this year – IndustriAll
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...
View ArticleBan methanol use and prioritize worker safety – Korean civic groups stand...
Samsung's environmental safety officer blew the whistle on lax management at their Bac Ninh factory in Vietnam, raising concerns about air filtration systems, wastewater treatment tanks, and the use of...
View ArticleThe decades-long legal struggle of Taiwanese electronics workers
Great piece by Paul Jobin on the decades-long (legal) struggle of Taiwanese workers producing for US and later French television companies, who contracted cancer or other illnesses from exposure to...
View ArticleThe Clean Electronics Production Network publishes the Joint Chemical Safety...
The CEPN Joint Chemical Safety Committee Guidance is now available on the CEPN website. This comprehensive document covers the key elements for developing and operating successful Joint Committees to...
View ArticleOver 50 national and local groups call on semiconductor manufacturing...
CHIPS Communities United (CCU), a coalition of over 50 organizations, is urging semiconductor companies, including Intel, Micron, TSMC, Samsung, and Texas Instruments, to uphold accountability and...
View ArticleIndonesian unions demand investigation of ITSS furnace explosion
Here is a link to IndustriALL’s statement on the deadly explosion at PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel (ITSS), a company based in the Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park (IMIP) in Central Sulawesi....
View ArticleBiomonitoring in electronics facilities in Indonesia reveals workers’...
A participatory study conducted in Batam, Indonesia used biological monitoring to evaluate the extent of chemical exposure among workers in the electronics manufacturing industry. Urine samples were...
View ArticleGoodElectronics’s input for the Special Rapporteur: Gender and Toxic
The UN Special Rapporteur on Toxics and Human Rights, Marcos Orellana, invited individuals, organisations, and researchers to contribute to his upcoming thematic report on gender and toxic substances....
View ArticleJustice for Aricell Workers
The Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational and Environmental Victims (ANROEV) condemns the gross negligence and violations of Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) rights that resulted in the...
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