May 31, 2013 •
2:32 pm
Report of Mozilla deal shades Apple setback as labour protesters turn up the volume at AGM Friday, 31 May, 2013 [UPDATED: 3:58AM] Toh Han Shih hanshih.toh@scmp.com Labour activists make their point at the Foxconn meeting. The Hong Kong share price of Foxconn International jumped 7.2 per cent, on a day the smartphone manufacturer’s labour practices came under...
May 29, 2013 •
2:40 pm
Hong Kong, 30 May 2013 Foxconn should keep its promise; we need no fake trade unions This is the fourth year of Students & Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour (SACOM) and other local organizations to come to the Annual General Meeting of Foxconn International Holdings Limited to protest against Foxconn’s maltreatment of workers and its broken...
May 29, 2013 •
1:51 pm
Leslie T. Chang, author of Factory Girls, received a standing ovation when she closed her TED Talk about the lives, aspirations, and—above all—upward mobility of China’s workers who make our products. Feeling Good about Yourself It’s a feel-good, “happy worker” story, filled with young women who start at the bottom in factory jobs, then rise by taking courses...
May 19, 2013 •
5:30 pm
More than 200 workers from Delta Smooth Limited (金顺台艺品厂) in Shenzhen, a supplier of Costco in China have launched a series of street protests since 6 May, as the owner refused to pay their wages, social insurance and economic compensation after the factory closure. They marched to the township and district government offices to demand...
May 16, 2013 •
3:53 am
WEDNESDAY MAY 15, 2013 8:25 PM BY MICHELLE CHEN With a workforce of more than one million, the electronics giant Foxconn has enough workers in its Chinese factories to fill a small country. So it’s fitting that the company has vowed to make its manufacturing kingdom a bit more democratic by encouraging union elections. But...