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Green America Urges Disney to Improve Conditions of Its Chinese Toy Factories
Aug 24, 2016The campaign is calling on Disney to ensure living wages for workers and improved working and living conditions. Green America is calling for Disney to improve the conditions for workers in its Chinese toy factories. The campaign wants ...
Tags: Green America, Toy
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Living Wage Hike Puts Toy Indies in 'challenging Position'
Apr 6, 2016The move by the Government will see the current minimum wage upped from £6.70 per hour to £7.20 this month. But the news has our indie retail panel calling for a reassessment of 'already squeezed margins'. The livng wage ...
Tags: Touhub, The toy store, Kerrison store, Living wages
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H&M Publishes Its Twelfth Conscious Actions Sustainability Report
Apr 11, 2014H&M publishes its twelfth Conscious Actions Sustainability Report. Some of the highlights during 2013 are the launch of H&M´s roadmap for fair living wages, the first closed loop collection made with recycled material from collected ...
Tags: H&M, recycled material, collected garments
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The Wages for Garment Workers Have Stagnated or Declined in 2001-11: Report
Jul 12, 2013In most of the leading apparel-exporting countries, the wages for garment workers have stagnated or declined over the past decade, says a latest report. Among the top four apparel exporters to the United States, prevailing wages in ...
Tags: Garment Workers, Wages
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A United Nations Expert Group Urged Global Clothing Brands to Work with Bangladesh
May 14, 2013A United Nations expert group urged global clothing brands to work with Bangladesh, international organizations and civil society to improve working conditions in the country’s garment sector, following the collapse last month of a ...
Tags: UN Exhorts, Bangla Disasters
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AFWC Has Urged The Government of India to Declare and Pursue an Active Employment Policy
Nov 28, 2012The 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
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More British Companies Are Committing to Paying UK Workers a Living Wage
Nov 7, 2012Campaigners welcomed the news that more British companies are committing to paying UK workers a living wage, but said it was scandalous that firms are not forced to ensure a living wage in their overseas supply chains. The call for a ...
Tags: living wage, overseas, supply chains, fashion industry, garments
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H&M Was Aired on Swedish National Television in Cambodia
Oct 28, 2012A documentary revealing the miserable conditions faced by Cambodian factory workers producing goods for the fashion retailer H&M was aired on Swedish national television last night. Campaigners and the media are calling on H&M to respond to ...
Tags: H&M, fashion retailer, cloth, cheap clothing, slave wages
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World Clothing Is Predicted to Be in Volume Terms Than The Already Modest 5% Growth Rate
Sep 15, 2012World clothing export growth in 2012 is predicted to be even slower in volume terms than the already modest 5% growth rate seen in 2011, according to a report in the latest issue of Global Apparel Markets, which is published quarterly by ...
Tags: clothing, Apparel, growth, even slower