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Sweatshops In California – More than 1,500 garment workers are owed over $3 million in unpaid wage
WORKERS in the California garment industry are enduring poor working conditions and insufficient pay, the US Department of Labour has found. More than 1,500 Southern California garment workers are owed over $3 million in unpaid wages, the government department found following a year-long survey – which also concluded that American companies Nasty Gal, Macy’s, Nordstrom … Continue reading
Bangladesh / A raise in minimum wage ?
Bangladesh’s garment factory owners are pencilling in a minimum wage increase of about 50 to 80 percent and will ask retailers to pay more to defray the cost, as the government tries to end a wave of strikes that hit nearly a fifth of workshops last month. The world’s second largest clothing exporter hopes to … Continue reading
Hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop / The 9-year-old boss
She did that from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., except for an hourlong lunch break Continue reading
Bangladesh / 50,000 garment workers strike over ‘inhuman’ wages
Tens of thousands of garment workers have downed tools and taken to the streets to urge the government for an increase in the minimum salary Continue reading
Sweatshops / Wrong unless Products Are Cute research finds
IF PEOPLE REALLY WANT something, they are likely to ignore the fact that the product was made at a sweatshop, according to a new study by a Georgetown business professor Continue reading
US vs Bangladesh / Sweatshop / Suspension of Preferential Trade Status and Reactions
The U.S. is planning to suspend its preferential trade treatment for Bangladesh. The suspension will begin in about 60 days.
Bangladesh’s foreign ministry has expressed hope that the U.S. will soon restore the country’s trade preferences Continue reading
Moscow / Underground Sweatshop city of 260 migrant workers found
An underground factory for immigrant workers to make clothes in sweatshops has been discovered under a street in Moscow. The cramped complex, which was home to about 260 migrants, contained dormitories and workshops packed with sewing machines as well as a canteen, a chicken coop, a cinema and casino. The undocumented workers were arrested during … Continue reading
(Update3) Bangladesh Garment Factory Collapsed Building / death toll 1,127 and garment workers allowed to form trade unions
Nearly three weeks after a Bangladesh garment-factory building collapsed, the search for the dead ended Monday at the site of the worst disaster in the history of the global garment industry. The death toll: 1,127. The collapse of the Rana Plaza building focused worldwide attention on the hazardous conditions in Bangladesh’s low-cost garment industry and … Continue reading
(Update2) Bangladesh Garment Factory Collapsed Building / Toll has passed 1,000
The death toll from Bangladesh’s worst industrial accident has passed 1,000 as recovery teams continue to find more bodies in the wreckage. The eight-storey Rana Plaza factory building near Dhaka collapsed on 24 April with an unknown number inside. The authorities say about 2,500 people were injured in the accident and 2,437 people were rescued. … Continue reading
(Update) Bangladesh Garment Factory Collapsed Building / Toll Reaches 782
The death toll for Bangladesh’s worst industrial disaster rose to 782 as the army continued to clear debris at a garment factory building that collapsed last month. The army’s attempt to recover more bodies from the rubble at Rana Plaza that collapsed on April 24 will continue for at least another week, Mir Rabbi, an … Continue reading
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