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[PDF] Configuring Labour Rights - Labour Conditions in the Production of Computer Parts in the Philippines
This report is following up on research that was done by the Workers Assistance Center (WAC) in the Philippines in 2006, which consisted of workers interviews and was published in 2007...considerable efforts have been made by management to set up systems around CSR, and work has been done around improving labour conditions, creating feed back systems for workers...Still all these efforts have not led to substantial improvement of the labour conditions in the suppliers, with respect to wages, freedom of association and working hours...Computer brands that were approached are IBM, Lenovo, Asus, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Apple, HP, Sony, Dell, Philips, Acer, Hitachi, NEC. Hard disk manufacturers approached about their suppliers were Seagate, Samsung, Hitachi GST. Mobile phone companies approached were Nokia, Nokia Siemens Network, LG, Motorola, Sony Ericsson. [also refers to Intel, Celestica, Sun] [includes brand responses in sections 8 and 10]