Today's headlines include reports about how the health law played in last night's State-of-the-Union address by President Barack Obama. Kaiser Health News: Ex-Microsoft Exec Brings Lists And Whiteboard To Overhaul Of Obamacare Website ...
Tags: Treating Clubfoot, Obamacare Website, America's Economic Divide
Business owners from across the country and a wide spectrum of industries met with U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez to discuss the need for an increased minimum wage. Business leaders from EILEEN FISHER, New Belgium Brewing (CO), ...
Rep. George Miller will retire at the end of his term, he announced Monday. The California Democrat is a close ally of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and the health law. The New York Times: California Democrat To Retire From House ...
Groups call on global clothing brands to use their influence to achieve an end to repression against workers involved in wage protests and the resumption of good-faith wage negotiations. Labour rights groups and trade unions across the ...
Tags: clothing brands, Apparel, Textile
Executives from Columbia Sportswear, Adidas Group and Puma SE condemned the Cambodian government's use of deadly force against protesting garment workers and urged the nation's factory owners and trade unions to work together to help the ...
Tags: Columbia Sportswear, Adidas Group, Puma SE, Cambodian, garment workers
The exports of garment and footwear from the Southeast Asian nation of Cambodia has fetched US$ 5.07 billion by November this year, showing a year-on-year increase of 22 percent, the data from the Ministry of Commerce showed, The Phnom Penh ...
Tags: Garment Exports, Apparel
A number of garment factories in Haiti were forced to close last week following protests by workers demanding a higher minimum wage. The workers say a rise in the minimum wage set out last month, and due to come into effect from 1 ...
Tags: Apparel, Accessories, garment
After several rounds of meeting with the relevant stakeholders, the Supreme Council for Wages (CSS) has fixed the minimum wage for Category C employees, which include those working in the apparel export sector, at 225 gourdes (about US$ ...
Netherlands Ambassador in Dhaka Gerben De Jong on Wednesday said this November is extremely important for further development in the readymade garment sector as two important decisions will be taken during the period which will help ...
Tags: BGMEA conference, Apparel
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) and the Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) have demanded a review of the Tk 5,300 minimum wage for garment workers recommended by the ...
The Bangladesh Garment and Manufacturers Association (BGMEA) has agreed to accept the decision of the Wage Board with regards to the salary structure of those working in readymade garment factories. Talking to reporters after a meeting ...
At a time when Indian, Russian and Brazilian car markets are stumbling, China remains the major growth engine for the global automotive industry, analysts say. "For many years it's been the Bric nations (Brazil, Russia, India and China) ...
Tags: Automotive Industry, Cars
Driven by rising home prices and growing demand,the U.S.housing recovery is well underway,concludes The State of the Nation's Housing report released today by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.While still at ...
Tags: housing recovery, home prices, demand, renter
The garments factories located in Western and Eastern Java of Indonesia have opted for relocation to central Java because of its cheaper labour costs. Major reason cited for the relocation of garment factories to central Java is that the ...
Tags: Garment Units, Lower Labour Costs
Myanmar's textile exports are set to skyrocket, following reinstating of the trade benefits by the EU under its Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), the Thailand Textile Institute (THTI) has said. According to a Bangkok Post report, ...
Tags: Apparel