A multi-stakeholder meeting in Dhaka convened by IndustriALL underlines need for urgent progress on workers’ rights, minimum wages and fire safety in order to secure a sustainable future for the garment industry in Bangladesh The ...
The European Commission (EC) has held a roundtable meeting today, February 12, attended by representatives from 13 steel producing member states and the European Parliament, regarding the EC's plan to deliver an action plan by June to ...
Tags: EU, Steel Industry, Mineral
The Global Glass Alliance of Unions at Owens Illinois (O-I) officially announced their coalition of workers at the company in four continents to CEO Al Strouken on 10 January 2013. The alliance will rally globally during the week of 4 ...
ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih steel plant in Ukraine announced a new wave of dismissals. 446 workers will be cut which amounts to 1% of the total workforce. Metallurgical and Mining Industry Workers’ Union of Ukraine (MMIWU), an ...
Tags: steel plant, steel, steelworkers, Metallurgical, Mining Industry
Refusing delays in the gazetting of minimum wages in Lesotho, garment workers are planning to march on the Prime Minister’s office on Monday 29 October 2012 to demand a living wage. Workers are frustrated because government has ...
Tags: garment workers, Central Bank of Lesotho, FAWU, Daniel Mariasane
The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF), IndustriALL Global Union, Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) and Maquila Solidarity Network (MSN), together with Bangladeshi trade unions and labour rights groups, have ...
Tags: CCC, ILRF, WRC, garment industry, worker rights, safety standards
After 4 months of struggle and the insistent campaigning of Texim workers, the union's key demands for recognition of fundamental workers' rights and reinstatement have been accepted. On 2 November after negotiation with Texim management, ...
Tags: textile, Pierre Cardin, Hugo Boss, clothing, union, Knitting