Tag: Green America

Apple reviewing new claims of supplier’s labor violations in China

Thursday, September 4, 2014 2:28 pmThursday, September 4, 20143 Comments

Apple is dispatching a team to investigate claims of unsafe labor practices at a Catcher Technology…

Green America ‘pleased’ with Apple’s first steps in banning chemicals; urges Apple to go further

Thursday, August 14, 2014 9:55 amThursday, August 14, 20145 Comments

This action shows that Apple listens to its customers, however Apple needs to go further…

Apple bans use of 2 hazardous chemicals in iPhone assembly

Wednesday, August 13, 2014 7:37 pm29 Comments

Five months after the activist groups China Labor Watch and Green America…

Petition urges Samsung to stop child labor, end smartphone sweatshops, worker abuse in Chinese cellphone factories

Thursday, July 10, 2014 3:00 pmThursday, July 10, 201412 Comments

Global electronics chaebol Samsung should immediately cease child labor abuses…

Groups to protest at Apple Store Fifth Avenue over claimed ‘worker poisoning’ in Chinese factories

Thursday, April 24, 2014 1:29 pmThursday, April 24, 201421 Comments

Just three days before International Workers’ Memorial Day…

Activist groups protest chemicals used in Apple’s iPhone

Thursday, March 13, 2014 8:24 amWednesday, August 13, 201415 Comments

Apple’s labor practices are under attack by two activist groups…