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Foxconn Food Poisoning: Dozens Released After Protest at Apple Supplier’s Plant in India
Source: Gadget 360
A police official said Foxconn plant workers and their relatives were among those who blocked the highway linking Chennai to Bengaluru.
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Mass protest by Foxconn workers in TN, allege company hushed up severe food poisoning
Source: The News Minute
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Rapid expansion, random wage cuts: behind the Wistron violence
Production at the plant at Narasapura in Kolar district around 60 km from Bengaluru, employing 1,343 regular workers and 8,490 contract workers, was suspended following the violence.
Source: The Indian Express
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IPEN, SAICM Report on Chemicals’ Disproportionate Impacts on Women
Source: IISD
“A report published by the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) and the Strategic Alliance for International Chemicals Management (SAICM) illustrates the impact of chemicals on women, as well as gender inequalities in decision-making on chemicals and waste management.”
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Case Studies of Workers’ Struggles in Samsung
Electronics and its Asian Suppliers
Source: Labour Rights in High Tech Electronics
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A Summer Report on the Electronics Hazard Hotline
Source: PHASE
“During the course of the NIOSH study on the Electronics Component Manufacturing Industry, certain labor unions and workers oriented organizations commented on the lack of direct worker input into the study.”
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US electronics network to start worker exposure programme
Source: Chemical Watch
“A US multi-stakeholder group is starting a programme in October that aims to protect workers from hazardous chemicals along the electronics supply chain.”
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Case–control study of brain and other central nervous system cancer among workers at semiconductor and storage device manufacturing facilities
Source: BMJ Journals
“This study evaluated the relationship between brain and other central nervous system cancer (‘CNS cancer’) and exposures at two semiconductor and electronic module manufacturing facilities and at a storage device manufacturing facility.”
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These Bunnies Just Keep Going / Clean-room chip workers toil12-hour days in bunny suits
Source: SF Gate
“A phalanx of white-suited workers, with no skin visible except their eyes, begins to file off of the NEC Electronics computer-chip factory floor just before 6 a.m.”
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Exposure to indium-tin oxide may pose risk to manufacturing workers’ lungs: study
Source: Safety and Health Magazine
“A chemical compound used to make high-tech products such as flat-panel displays, solar panels and energy-efficient windows may put workers at risk of developing a potentially fatal respiratory condition called indium lung disease, according to a recent study from NIOSH.”
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Regional Risk Assessment: Electronics Industry, Indonesia
Contributing organisation: LIPS, Indonesia
Source: ElectronicsWatch
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Midstream Recommendations From UNSAICM Meeting in Vienna
Source: ElectronicsWatch
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