Reuters reported that workers at the main units of Southern Copper in Peru will hold contract talks soon with the global copper producer but say they could strike after January 15 if negotiations break down. Union leader Ricardo ...
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BNamericas reported that workers at US based Southern Copper's Cuajone and Toquepala copper mines and its Ilo smelter will begin an indefinite strike on December 24th 2012 to demand higher wages. Mr Ricardo Juárez Union ...
Tags: Southern Copper, copper mines, indefinite strike, higher wages, Peru
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
Bloomberg reported that workers at Southern Copper Corp, the largest producer of the metal in Peru, plan their first strike in four years on December 24 after wage talks broke down. Smelter union official Ricardo Juarez said that unions ...
Tags: metal, Southern Copper Corp, strike, wage talks, smelter union, copper, zinc
President Obama and Mr. Romney, during the 2012 US Presidential election campaign the world is listening, and the children, women and men exploited in modern-forms of slavery await your leadership. On this Anti-Slavery Day, the Cotton ...
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Ministry of Textile Industry (MINTEX) Government of Pakistan has launched a Skill Development Project with collaboration of International Labor Organization (ILO) and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). MINTEX has selected ...
Tags: Skill development project, textile market, textile industry
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
Aiming to help Pakistan introduce reforms in its key textile sector, South Korean Government has extended US$ 5 million help to the Textile University of Faisalabad to enable it to start new courses on latest trends in textiles. ...
Tags: key textile sector, South Korean Government, Textile University
Uzbekistan cotton has again come under the world's scanner for infringing international labour laws. More than 100 popular apparel labels like Zara, H&M, Gap, Walmart, Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent have decided to shun Uzbek cotton, ...
Unlike most movie sequels,the HP ProLiant DL380 gets better with each generation.The DL dynasty just hit generation 8,and true to form,the HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 does a fine job of incorporating all the latest server hardware,features,and ...
Gap Inc announced a significant initiative to improve building and fire safety standards across the company's approved third-party garment manufacturing factories in Bangladesh.Underscoring the tangible steps taken in the country over the ...
Tags: safety standards, Gap Inc, hird-party garment manufacturing factories
Mr. Richard Howitt MEP, European Parliament Rapporteur, on Corporate Social Responsibility took an overview of Government sponsored programme- DISHA, run by Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC). Driving Industry towards Sustainable Human ...
Tags: India, Apparel, Eu Parliament Rapporteur, AEPC's Disha Programme
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has pledged to support the families of the victims of the Karachi garment factory fire and announced a plan to strengthen workplace safety, to prevent a similar tragedy from happening in the ...
Tags: garment factory, ILO, Pakistani, workplace safety
A new pilot project by Philips and the Kenyan Urban Roads Authority to install solar-powered LED street lighting in Nairobi has the potential to generate up to 100 per cent energy savings,if implemented on a wide scale across the country. ...
Tags: Philips, Solar LED, East Africa, solar-powered LED