From July 19, 2013, Myanmar, previously Burma, would benefit once again from a special, advantageous trade arrangement with the EU, according to a statement from the European Commission in Brussels. Myanmar would be brought back under ...
Tags: European market, Apparel
EU Trade Commissioner Karl De Gucht will be hosting a meeting in Geneva entitled "Staying Engaged – A Sustainability Compact with Bangladesh" on July 8, 2013. The high level discussion will focus on agreeing on ways for ...
Tags: Apparel
To address the challenge and risks facing the garment industry is sub contracting and the uncertainty and risks associated, AEPC in association with Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) organized, a workshop on, ensuring safe sub contracting ...
Tags: AEPC, Safe Garment
UK retailer Primark announces full year 2012 results -Revenue £3,503m (2011, £3,043m) -Adjusted operating profit £356m (2011, £309m) -Adjusted operating profit margin 10.2% (2011, 10.2%) -Return on average ...
Tags: Primark, 2012 Sales, 2012 results
Bangladesh will make an action plan for implementing various compliances related to the readymade garments (RMG) sector. At the Social Compliance Forum (SCF) meeting on RMG sector, chaired by Commerce Minister Ghulam Muhammed Quader, it ...
Tags: Bangladesh, implementing various compliances, readymade garments
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 ...
Foxconn, Apple’s giant Taiwanese manufacturing partner, denies reports that workers at one of its Chinese factories went on strike Friday and says the only disturbances happened earlier in the week but were squelched right away. The ...
Tags: Apple, China labour, foxconn, highlightedpost, iPhone
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
Building upon more than ten years of advocacy by Cividep-India, Fair Labor Association (FLA) commissioned this study into the provision and quality of legally mandated childcare in Bangalore's garment factories. The study was ...
Tags: garment factories, childcare, workforce
To avert occurrence of any unfortunate accident incidents like the one at Karachi's Baldia-based Ali Enterprise,which caused 300 workers to loose their lives,representatives of several labour and civil society organizations'in Pakistan ...
Tags: accident, Ali Enterprise, workers, garment workers
The Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) calls on the German textile discounter KIK to pay a fair and just compensation for all the victims of the garment factory fire at Ali Enterprises in Pakistan. The immediate relief payments that KIK promised ...
Tags: Clean Clothes Campaign, textile, garment factory, KIK, fire