SACOM - Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour

Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) is a nonprofit organization founded in Hong Kong in June 2005. SACOM originated from a students’ movement devoted to improving the labor conditions of cleaning workers and security guards under the outsourcing policy. The movement attained relative success and created an opportunity for students to engage in local and global labor issues. SACOM aims at bringing concerned students, scholars, labor activists, and consumers together to monitor corporate behavior and to advocate for workers’ rights.

SACOM believes that the most effective means of monitoring is to collaborate closely with workers at the workplace level. They team up with labor NGOs to provide in-factory training to workers in South China. Through democratic elections, SACOM supports worker-based committees that can represent the voices of the majority of workers.

Objectives: Campaign against corporate misbehaviour & promote democratic worker representation in China
Activities: Research into working conditions of Chinese suppliers of computer multinationals, coordinate workers’ rights training program in China, and initiate sweatfree campus movement in Hong Kong

 

http://www.sacom.hk/