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Bangladesh’s garment workers: the human faces behind ‘fast fashion’
workers' rights & unions Paul Gregoire 1251 Bangladesh garment workers January 29, 2020 ... garment workers make their way back towards the gates of the factories where they produce clothing for the ... ridiculously low price tags attached to clothing marked “Made in Bangladesh” in discount department stores ...
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Bangladesh: Protesting garment workers win wage rise, but demand more
workers' rights 1206 Bangladesh January 16, 2019 Garment manufacturers in Bangladesh agreed ... pushed the Bangladesh government to consider the demand for higher pay in the world’s second-biggest ... bosses came after nearly 50 factories closed when thousands of workers took to the streets demanding ...
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Bangladesh: Wal-Mart, other retailers, sued over factory collapse
Bangladesh May 3, 2015 Two years after the 2013 factory collapse in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, that ... Rana factory. The plaintiffs claim the retailers knew “that Bangladesh factories had an extremely poor ... record of workplace safety standards and industrial building standards, including garment factories”. The ...
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Bangladesh: Factory boss arrested as rage hits streets
eight-storey Bangladesh factory complex that collapsed on April 24 killing at least 362 people has been ... factories. Protesters are demanding that the government arrests all those responsible. The Bangladesh ... workers' rights & unions anti-corporate 963 Bangladesh April 28, 2013 The owner of the ...
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Bangladesh: Factory fire kills teenage garment workers
ordinary work day at the Smart Fashion Export factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh — until the fire broke out at ... Razia, 16, and Nasima, 17 years old. The site said “Bangladesh’s labor and human rights organizations ... have taken to the streets once again, demanding safety and fundamental rights for Bangladesh’s four ...
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Bangladesh: Bosses fail to restart factories closed by protests
workers' rights & unions 983 Bangladesh September 29, 2013 Bangladesh police have used ... forced the closure more than 100 factories for the day, police said. Gazipur and Narayanganj house ... hundreds of factories that supply garment products to numerous global brands, including Wal-Mart and ...
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Bangladesh: Five years after Rana Plaza, garment workers fight for justice
remains a long way off. In Bangladesh, the Accord has made factories safer, but the right to form and join ... Marienna Pope-Weidemann 1178 April 26, 2018 workers' rights & unions Bangladesh Garment ... recommended the previous day that all factory operations be suspended. Bank and shop employees on the lower ...
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Bangladesh: Huge May Day march mourns dead, demands justice and change
at another clothing factory, the collapse again exposed safety problems in Bangladesh's garment ... workers' rights & unions anti-corporate 964 Bangladesh May 1, 2013 Thousands of workers ... paraded through central Dhaka on May Day to demand safety at work after the collapse of garment factory on ...
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Victory as Bangladesh garment workers released
international solidarity workers' rights & unions 1128 Bangladesh garment workers UNI ... Bangladesh have paid off as the 35 activists who were arrested in a series of December raids have been ... UNI Global Union — called on the government of Bangladesh to stop its crackdown on garment workers ...
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Women workers attacked in Bangladesh
in Bangladesh. They work long hours in very bad and often dangerous conditions in small factories ... 217 January 31, 1996 Five hundred garment workers in Bangladesh have been sacked, five women raped ... Since July 25, 1995, the National Garment Workers' Federation of Bangladesh has mobilised ...
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BANGLADESH: Workers protest deaths
Spectrum garments factory caved in the dead of night on April 11, killing at least 76 people, with another ... their jobs in the factory closure. At the protest, former employees told stories of destitution: many ...
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BANGLADESH: Workers revolt against pay squeeze
Bangladesh to greater competition. Bangladesh's garment industry is virtually 100% export-oriented, with ... highly unsafe work environments. In 2005, 130 garment workers in Bangladesh died on the job and at least ... commitments from the bosses between 1997 and 2005. However, according to the Bangladesh Institute of Labour ...
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Fundraiser: TCFUA Benefit for Bangladesh.
garment factory collapsed on April 24. Bangladeshi garment workers, who make many of the clothes sold in ... killed and for union health and safety work in Bangladesh. Performers include Corinne Grant (MC) and ...
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Bangladesh: What has changed after Rana Plaza?
Bangladesh August 2, 2013 In the aftermath of the April 24 Rana Plaza collapse, the plight of Bangladeshi ... between retailers and their labour force in Bangladesh. For a brief moment, the wide conceptual gulf ... Bangladesh, there was a general feeling that “something” should be done. Three months on from Rana Plaza, what ...
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BANGLADESH: Strike wave greets government changeover
five-year-old Awami League government, a strike and protest wave is gripping Bangladesh. After thousands of ... Patenga, the entry point to the Chittagong port. The workers feared that the viability of Bangladesh ... jointly backed the strike call, in an impressive united action under the banner of Bangladesh Garment ...
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Get the terrorists-- unless they are Walmart
apprehended. On the day of the Rana Plaza factory collapse near Dhaka in Bangladesh, one of the survivors of ... Bangladesh May 13, 2013 When terrorist bombers killed three people in Boston, the FBI moved heaven and earth ... to apprehend them. When suppliers to Wal-mart and other big brands in Bangladesh killed more than 950 ...
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Nike workers arrested, injured, fired
Korea. In addition to its Bangladesh operations, it has factories in Jamaica, Korea and China and is ... 285 August 13, 1997 Nike workers arrested, injured, fired A Bangladesh newspaper, the Independent ... of Dhaka, reported on July 14 that nine workers from the Youngone factory were in jail, 300 injured ...
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‘The only answer to organised corporate greed is organised labour’
daughters. My mum left school at 13 and was a factory worker, a waitress and casual worker throughout her ... who make their products in Bangladesh are paid US$70 a month. The workers who make their products in ...
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Unionists witness Bangladeshi worker conditions
Bangladesh gave a reportback to a forum in Melbourne on March 5 on the conditions experienced by its clothing ... clothing workers are the lowest paid in the world. Until recently, the minimum wage in Bangladesh was only ... are frequent. One example was the fire at the Tasreen factory in 2012. The building had no fire escape ...
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Bangladeshi unionist denied entry to Australia for being 'too poor'
movement in Bangladesh. Masum was involved in the rescue operation at the Rana Plaza factory collapse where ... workers' rights & unions 985 Australia Bangladesh NTEU October 21, 2013 The National ... more than 1100 workers were killed, and in supporting workers after the recent Gazipur factory fire. He ...