The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America (FDRA), America's largest and most respected footwear trade association, partnered with the firm Elevate to produce its 5th Factory Survey Analysis. The recently completed report provides ...
Tags: Sporting Goods, Recreation, Economy, Footwear
United States Steel Corporation announced Monday that it will indefinitely idle two tubular manufacturing facilities in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, and Bellville, Texas, in early August, impacting approximately 260 employees as a result of ...
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Clean Clothes Campaign launches a Review of its Urgent Appeal cases of 2013 and beginning of 2014. The interactive map shows how Clean Clothes Campaign supports the survivors of the Rana Plaza and many other workers in their struggle for ...
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The Corporate Social Responsibility movement has many forms and one strand of it is the Behind the Bar Code campaign. The aim itself is an admirable one, the desire to stamp out slavery and worker maltreatment in the world’s economy. ...
Tags: anti-market, Bar Code
At the early stage of the school, it is easy to see a lot of lovely students stationery,they are not only having a powerful function but also a creative stationery ,and this is the key to attract young consumers in recent years, in order to ...
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One year ago today, 17 ready-made garment (RMG) industry global brands and retailers and 2 global unions and their national RMG affiliates signed an unprecedented agreement to make RMG factories safe in Bangladesh. One year later, 172 ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is extending the comment period for the proposed revisions to the agricultural Worker Protection Standard for an additional 60 days, until August 18, 2014, in response to requests from growers, ...
Tags: EPA, Certification, Service
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announces it has selected the Los Angeles Conservation Corps (LACC) in Los Angeles, Calif. to receive a $200,000 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) grant to provide ...
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Lowe's Home Centers, one of the nation's largest home improvement retailers, has agreed to implement a comprehensive, corporate-wide compliance program at its over 1,700 stores nationwide to ensure that the contractors it hires to perform ...
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The adidas Group published its 2013 Sustainability Progress Report, an annual overview of achievements and challenges as well as a progress update on its 2015 sustainability targets. As part of the report, the adidas Group announced that ...
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The Adidas Group published its 2013 Sustainability Progress Report, an annual overview of achievements and challenges as well as a progress update on its 2015 sustainability targets. As part of the report, the Adidas Group announced that ...
Tags: Adidas, Sporting Goods, Recreation
Two members of the Furniture Industry Sustainability Programme (FISP) have been selected as winner and runner up of the prestigious Sustainability Award for the furniture industry. Premiere Furniture has been announced as the winner of ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing
Honeywell has released the Granit 1280iFR industrial-grade full range laser bar code scanner, now available in Australia. The scanner was designed to perform in demanding mission-critical environments where accuracy and durability are ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Scanner
On Thursday, three citations totaling $36,750 were issued to Gerdau Reinforcing Steel West in connection with the death of a company truck driver at the new San Francisco 49ers stadium in Santa Clara, California, in October 2013. The ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Truck
The followings items must be given attention for inspection purpose . Suspicious source of ingredients such as raw materials, processed materials or additives must be proven by a Halal certificate from a recognized Islamic Body. ...