Annual meeting

There was a particular focus on the global landscape of the electronics industry in terms of impacts on communities, workers and the environment, as well as on the impact of Covid-19 on workers’ rights, with particular attention to the shrinking of civil space for electronics workers and accompanying organizations. [...] The other situation for the workers in the Philippines is the repressive environment and ongoing attacks on trade unions in the Philippines that has affected the unions in electronics, particularly the Nexperia and Fuji electronics workforce and their representatives. [...] This includes: - Supporting work in Indonesia, the Philippines and others with a nickel industry; - Being a long-standing partner of AFREWATCH for the DRC’s cobalt mining sector, and; - working with Electronics Watch, who are venturing into the monitoring of the mining and processing sector in the Philippines, Indonesia, and Bolivia, on various minerals that feed into the supply chain for batterie. [...] The roadmaps will include all the steps required to achieve responsible sourcing by the three sectors, and the sectors that are chosen are the renewable energy sector, the mobility sector such as electric cars, and also the electronics sector. [...] ● GE to support cascading activities of these webinars, to help disseminate the knowledge to union members on the ground involved in activities that produce knowledge and to provide resources on the just transition, especially in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and shift to renewable energy.