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  1. Bangladesh: Wal-Mart, other retailers, sued over factory collapse

    claim the retailers knew 鈥渢hat Bangladesh factories had an extremely poor record of workplace safety ... Workers & unions International solidarity Economy Democracy 1051 Bangladesh May 3, 2015 Two ... years after the 2013 factory collapse in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, that killed more than 1100 ...

  2. Bangladesh: Factory boss arrested as rage hits streets

    Bangladesh factory complex that collapsed on April 24 killing at least 362 people has been arrested at the ... Workers & unions Economy 963 Bangladesh April 28, 2013 The owner of the eight-storey ... country's border with India. Three owners of garment factories in the collapsed building on the ...

  3. Bangladesh: Factory fire kills teenage garment workers

    Smart Fashion Export factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh 鈥 until the fire broke out at 2:30 p.m,鈥 Global Labour ... old. The site said 鈥Bangladesh鈥檚 labor and human rights organizations have taken to the streets once ... again, demanding safety and fundamental rights for Bangladesh鈥檚 four million mostly young women garment ...

  4. Bangladesh: Bosses fail to restart factories closed by protests

    Workers & unions 983 Bangladesh September 29, 2013 Bangladesh police have used batons, rubber ... closure more than 100 factories for the day, police said. Gazipur and Narayanganj house hundreds of ... factories that supply garment products to numerous global brands, including Wal-Mart and H&M. After ...

  5. Bangladesh鈥檚 garment workers: the human faces behind 鈥榝ast fashion鈥

    Workers & unions Paul Gregoire 1251 Bangladesh garment workers January 29, 2020 In the ... make their way back towards the gates of the factories where they produce clothing for the Global North ... price tags attached to clothing marked 鈥淢ade in Bangladesh鈥 in discount department stores around the ...

  6. Bangladesh: Huge May Day march mourns dead, demands justice and change

    Workers & unions Economy 964 Bangladesh May 1, 2013 Thousands of workers paraded through ... central Dhaka on May Day to demand safety at work after the collapse of garment factory on April 24-- the ... and chanting "direct action" and "death penalty" for the owner of the factory ...

  7. Women workers attacked in Bangladesh

    in Bangladesh. They work long hours in very bad and often dangerous conditions in small factories ... 217 January 31, 1996 Five hundred garment workers in Bangladesh have been sacked, five women raped ... Since July 25, 1995, the National Garment Workers' Federation of Bangladesh has mobilised ...

  8. Bangladesh: Protesting garment workers win wage rise, but demand more

    Workers & unions 1206 Bangladesh January 16, 2019 Garment manufacturers in聽Bangladesh agreed ... pushed the Bangladesh government to consider the demand for higher pay in the world鈥檚 second-biggest ... bosses came after nearly 50 factories closed when thousands of workers took to the streets demanding ...

  9. Bangladesh: Five years after Rana Plaza, garment workers fight for justice

    lives and livelihoods. That goal remains a long way off. In Bangladesh, the Accord has made factories ... Workers & unions Marienna Pope-Weidemann 1178 Bangladesh Rana Plaza Sweatshops April 26, 2018 ... authorities had recommended the previous day that all factory operations be suspended. Bank and shop employees ...

  10. BANGLADESH: Workers protest deaths

    Spectrum garments factory caved in the dead of night on April 11, killing at least 76 people, with another ... their jobs in the factory closure. At the protest, former employees told stories of destitution: many ...

  11. Victory as Bangladesh garment workers released

    International solidarity Workers & unions 1128 Bangladesh garment workers UNI Global Union ... March 6, 2017 Calls to stop a government crackdown on trade unionists and garment workers in Bangladesh ... Union 鈥 called on the government of Bangladesh to stop its crackdown on garment workers seeking union ...

  12. BANGLADESH: Workers revolt against pay squeeze

    Bangladesh to greater competition. Bangladesh's garment industry is virtually 100% export-oriented, with ... highly unsafe work environments. In 2005, 130 garment workers in Bangladesh died on the job and at least ... commitments from the bosses between 1997 and 2005. However, according to the Bangladesh Institute of Labour ...

  13. Rising powers, multipolarity and capitalism鈥檚 鈥榝inal crisis鈥

    super-exploitation of factory workers in Bangladesh and China entails the extraction of super-profits from living ...

  14. Bangladesh: What has changed after Rana Plaza?

    Workers & unions Economy David T. Rowlands 976 Australia Bangladesh August 2, 2013 In the ... their labour force in Bangladesh. For a brief moment, the wide conceptual gulf between the consumer ... indicating that the consumer base in Western nations was concerned about the situation in Bangladesh, there ...

  15. BANGLADESH: Strike wave greets government changeover

    five-year-old Awami League government, a strike and protest wave is gripping Bangladesh. After thousands of ... Patenga, the entry point to the Chittagong port. The workers feared that the viability of Bangladesh ... jointly backed the strike call, in an impressive united action under the banner of Bangladesh Garment ...

  16. Get the terrorists-- unless they are Walmart

    factory collapse near Dhaka in Bangladesh, one of the survivors of a fire at Tazreen Fashion, also near ... from the sweatshop wages paid in garment factory death traps in Bangladesh and around the world. ... Workers & unions International solidarity Economy Marc Norton 965 Bangladesh May 13, 2013 When ...

  17. Nike workers arrested, injured, fired

    Korea. In addition to its Bangladesh operations, it has factories in Jamaica, Korea and China and is ... 285 August 13, 1997 Nike workers arrested, injured, fired A Bangladesh newspaper, the Independent ... of Dhaka, reported on July 14 that nine workers from the Youngone factory were in jail, 300 injured ...

  18. Unionists witness Bangladeshi worker conditions

    communication flow between the international companies and the Bangladesh factories. He said Australian trade ... Chris Slee Naarm/Melbourne Three Australian unionists recently returned from Bangladesh gave ... the lowest paid in the world. Until recently, the minimum wage in Bangladesh was only $1 a day. When ...

  19. Bangladeshi unionist denied entry to Australia for being 'too poor'

    Bangladesh. Masum was involved in the rescue operation at the Rana Plaza factory collapse where more than 1100 ... workers were killed, and in supporting workers after the recent Gazipur factory fire. He was due to report ... workers in Bangladesh. The Bangladesh solidarity program developed by the NTEU also has the support of the ...

  20. Rana Plaza deaths commemorated in Melbourne

    Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh. In the collapse, 1139 garment workers are known to have died, with ... the global clothing companies that have their garments made in unsafe factories such as Rana Plaza are ... clothing labels such as Just Jeans, has refused to sign the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Accord, an ...

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