Please help touchscreen manufacture workers win basic working rights!

Workers at Young Fast Optoelectronics (YFO) in Taiwan urgently request support for their struggle to defend their union and basic labour rights against the company’s union-busting actions and the Taiwanese government’s negligence of the law.

YFO is one of the major manufacturers for touch panel screens in the world; its products are used inside HTC mobile phones (as well as Samsung, LG and Google).

Although making tremendous profits, the working conditions in YFO’s Taoyuan Plant are worse than most people expected. The unacceptable conditions include child labour, excessive and forced overtime working, deduction of overtime wages, and poor health and safety conditions.

YFO has been sabotaging their workers’ union YFOTU since its establishment in December 2009. They have dismissed five union officers and more than ten active union members in March 2010, under the pretense that their production line will be moved to China. Trade unionists in Taiwan believe that this is a deliberate union-busting action and gross violation of the Labor Union Law.

YFOTU and National Federation of Independent Trade Unions (NAFITU), which YFOTU is affiliated with, have waged a campaign since the illegal dismissal. Please help LabourStart.org and YFOTU to get the message out by raising awareness with HTC and other mobile brands that use YFO products.

You can find out more, and sign an email petition at LabourStart: http://www.labourstart.org/cgi-bin/solidarityforever/show_campaign.cgi?c=675