The Government of Sri Lanka has launched a compensation programme to reimburse the textile workers who were laid off due to privatization or closure of about 64 state-run textile units way back during 1980-82. As per the ...
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The Southern African Clothing & Textile workers’ Union (SACTWU) has pledged R1m towards a COSATU-run fund, to unionise farm workers. SACTWU General Secretary, Andre Kriel, made the announcement at a recruitment planning meeting of ...
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The Spanish company, Jeanologia, renowned for its environmental awareness and focus on the health of workers in the Jeans finishing industry, will be presenting their latest sustainable technologies for processing finished garments in an ...
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Chairman All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Punjab Shahzad Ali Khan has said that a delegation of APTMA leadership called on the Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to apprise him of the problems faced by the textile industry in ...
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APTMA spokesman has said that textile industry in Punjab has incurred production loss of $125 million since disconnection of electricity and gas supply over the last five days. The textile industry in Punjab is losing $25 million a day ...
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Expressing concern over the declining textile manufacturing sector in Nigeria, National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring workers of Nigeria (NUTGTWN) has urged the country's federal and state governments to make efforts aimed at ...
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The mass exodus of migrant workers during the festival season in textile industry may create labor shortage in Surat's textile industry. Since the migrant laborers move out to their native places for a month long vacation during the ...
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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 ...
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Following the shortage of textile workers in India's biggest textile hub of Surat,most of the textile units have decided to give 10-15 percent wage hike to the workers. Mr.Arun Jariwala,Chairman of Federation of Indian Art Silk Weaving ...
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The National Council of Textile Organizations (NCTO) President Cass Johnson praised the decision by the United States government to join the consultations between Mexico and China regarding Chinese textile subsidies. "We are pleased ...
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About 3,800 workers employed in apparel factories,especially in KwaZulu-Natal and Newcastle regions in South Africa,have returned to work as their employers have agreed to raise wages by R40 a week. About a week ago,the workers went ...
The Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers'Union(SACTWU)has informed that approximately 3 800 clothing workers in Newcastle have down tools since Monday 08 October 2012.These workers are from 35 companies and earn between R250-R400 ...
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Shahzad Ali Khan, Chairman All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Punjab, has rejected outrightly the load management plan by the Energy Management Cell (EMC), putting textile industry on six hours a day load shedding while giving a ...
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Mr.Andre Kriel,General Secretary,the Southern Africa Clothing&Textile Workers'Union(SACTWU)has informed that the SACTWU has set itself a target to strike ballot 40000 clothing industry workers,following a wage dispute with clothing sector ...
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South African Clothing and Textile Workers Union (SACTWU) seems to be all set to launch a nation-wide strike over their pay hike demand. Although the final voting results of the 40,000 member workers of SACTWU are yet to be released, ...
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