The International Labour Organization’s (ILO’s) Better Factories Cambodia (BFC) monitoring program is losing its relevance and effectiveness in ensuring better work and wage conditions, especially to garment workers, says a ...
Tags: garment workers, Apparel, garment
Consumers and activists across Europe are mobilizing on the streets and on social media this week to ask major high street fashion brands to support a minimum wage increase for garment workers in Cambodia. To bring the shocking reality of ...
Tags: Campaigners, Fashion Brands, Wage Rise
The Government of Bangladesh has taken initiative for conducting a comprehensive study on the country’s readymade garment sector, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina told Jatiya Sangsad, the country’s Parliament. In a written reply ...
Tags: Bangladesh, comprehensive study, readymade garment sector
More than 3,000 mid-level readymade garment (RMG) factory workers in Bangladesh received fire safety training under the crash programme launched by Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA). About 3,359 workers ...
Fair Trade USA's Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) for apparel released a report on the recently completed Fair Trade Certified apparel pilot program. Launched in 2010 after an extensive feasibility study and stakeholder consultation period, ...
The Clean Clothes Campaign, along with labor rights organizations in Bangladesh and around the world, calls for immediate action from international brands following the fire in Dhaka Bangladesh, which cost the lives of seven more women ...
Cambodian Confederation of Unions (CCU) is seeking a hike in wages of garment workers and has threatened to launch a mass strike if the demand is not met. Around 300 CCU members, who staged a protest at Freedom Park in Phnom Penh, ...
Tags: CCU, garment workers, mass strike, Cambodian
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division and the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement found serious violations of federal and state labor laws by each of 10 garment contractors inspected during a sweep of a single ...
Tags: garment district, garment, garment contractors, garments producing
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
Christmas shoppers stand to be taken by surprise this month as campaigners take action in shopping centers around Europe to raise awareness of poverty wages of Cambodian garment workers. With these 'fashion mobs', they pressure H&M, Inditex ...
Tags: Christmas, poverty wage, garment, Cambodia
Garments Shramik Sangram Parishad (GSSP), a body representing Bangladesh’s garment factory workers, has urged for reopening of Hall-Mark readymade garment (RMG) manufacturing units under the Government supervision. The garment ...
Tags: GSSP, body representing, readymade garment
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
The National People’s Tribunal organized by the Asia Floor Wage Campaign (AFWC) has urged the Government of India to declare and pursue an active employment policy to provide social justice to the garment workers in the country. In ...
Tags: India, AFWC, Social Justice, Indian Garment Workers
More than 120 people are reported killed in a fire accident at an eight-storey garment factory, located to the northwest of the Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka. According to reports, the fire started from the warehouse on the ground ...
Tesco announced the launch an Apparel Skills Foundation to support the Bangladesh ready-made garment industry.The Skills Foundation's objective is to equip the industry with training,expertise and tools to improve productivity while ...
Tags: Tesco, Apparel Skills Foundation, ready-made garment, DFID