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SEIU, Unite Here settle dispute
The Service Employees International Union and Unite Here, two of the nation's most influential unions, this week announced a settlement that brings to an end a dispute that has troubled the labor movement for over a year.SEIU represents workers in ...
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Bangladeshi garment workers protest for higher minimum wage
Thousands of garment workers protested in Mohakhali, in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, on Friday, demanding 5,000 taka (71.43 U.S. dollars) as minimum wage, and the scrapping of the newly established wage scales. Assistant deputy commissioner of ...
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Bangladeshi garment workers protest for higher minimum wage (2)
The Bangladeshi government on Thursday announced 3,000 taka (42. 86 U.S. dollars) as the minimum monthly wage for the country's around 3 million garment workers, an over 80 percent hike from the existing pay in a month. Several incidents of ...
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Bangladesh garment workers riot over wage row
Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers blocked highways, attacked factories and looted shops in Dhaka on Friday, police said, after rejecting the terms of a government wage hike.
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Bangladesh: Minimum Wages Raised In Garments Sector
After long protests and bargaining with the employers and the workers, the Bangladesh Government has decided to raise the minimum wages to Tk. 3000 per month ($44) which is approximately double of the current minimum wages. Bloggers discuss how this ...
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Bangladesh raises garment workers' pay 80 percent
Bangladesh has raised minimum monthly wages for its millions of garment workers by about 80 percent after months of violent protests over poor pay and conditions, a government minister said Thursday. Garment workers in Bangladesh are paid the least in ...
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Bangladesh raises minimum wage for garment workers
Dhaka- Authorities in Bangladesh on Thursday set a minimum wage of 3,000 taka( 43 dollars) per month for workers in the garment industry, following labour protests. The wage, due to come into force in November, nearly doubles the previous monthly pay ...
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Melissa George's Annual Australians in New York Fashion Foundation Look: Hit Or Miss? (PHOTOS, POLL)
Actress Melissa George stopped by the 2nd Annual Australians in New York Fashion Foundation Party on Tuesday wearing a garment that's difficult to sum up in five words or less. It was a billowing halter top connected to her right ankle and also ...
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Bangladesh Garment Workers to Get Higher Pay
A government oversight board nearly doubled wages in the nations garment industry, but the new benchmark is still short of what workers had been demanding.
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Bangladesh doubles pay for garment workers
Wage rises to $43 a month for about 3.5 million who make clothes for JC Penny, Wal-Mart, H&M and other global giants
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Vietnam textile sector reports labour shortages as demand recovers
Hanoi- Vietnam's garment and textile industry needs up to 200,000 more workers as demand picked up following the global economic recovery, officials and companies said Tuesday. ``There is a close link between the global economic recovery and the ...
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Bangladesh Raises Minimum Wage for Garment Workers
Price hike for textiles workers comes after months of violent street protests
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SEIU and Workers United end 18-month feud
Two of the country's largest unions have resolved a vicious feud that roiled organized labor for 18 months, costing it hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, undermining each other's organizing efforts, and distracting it from opportunities ...
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Garment workers demand pay rise
Garments workers in Bangladesh are due to find out if they have been finally granted a pay rise.
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Cambodia workers in police clash
Police clash with garment factory workers as they attempt to break up a strike in Cambodia, says a trade union.
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Estranged Tales
From Okahoma comes a story that must have Onion writers tearing out their hair, rending their garments, and wondering if reality really will make them redundant. John Mantooth -- I did not make that name up -- is an attorney running for a judgeship in ...
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Urbanomics: Social empowerment and economic growth
More evidence in support of the argument that economic growth is the most sustainable route to social empowerment comes from the example of women working in the growing garment industry in Bangladesh. This Economix post points to how "by giving women ...
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Burka Bans Spreading, Though Shamefully Not in Britain
Britain should join the push to ban the oppressive garment, and attitudes in the U.S. must change as well.
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Bangladesh workers in rampage over death
Thousands of Bangladeshi garment workers went on a rampage, ransacking a factory after a worker died on duty.
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Violence in Dhaka garment sector as government readies wage revision
Dhaka, July 26 (IANS) At least 50 people were injured and a factory was ransacked Monday in renewed industrial violence in the garment sector, as the government prepared to revise wages by this weekend.Over 3,500 workers turned violent and damaged ...
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Living wage
What is the true price you pay for your clothes?
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Crunch time for Bangladesh garment firms
Garment workers across Bangladesh who put in long hours making Western clothes for the lowest industry wages in the world are waiting to learn of a pay rise.
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Saudi cleric says it's OK for Saudi women to uncover faces in countries trying to ban the veil
A popular Muslim cleric says it is permissible for Saudi women to reveal their faces in countries where the Islamic veil is banned, while criticizing efforts in Europe to outlaw the garment.
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Saudi: OK to uncover face in anti-burqa countries
A popular Muslim cleric says it is permissible for Saudi women to reveal their faces in countries where the Islamic veil is banned, while criticizing efforts in Europe to outlaw the garment. Sheik Aedh al-Garni's ruling was in response to a question ...
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What We're Reading: Friend Rentals
Links from around the Web.
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Mystery Sewing Machine Attachment
Posted by April M. MohrDo you have any idea how this attachment is used?
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Wal-Mart Radio Tags to Track Clothing
Wall Street Journal | Starting next month, the retailer will place removable "smart tags" on individual garments that can be read by a hand-held scanner.
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On Banning the Burqa
IT is ten days since French MPs voted to ban the Burqa, on the grounds that the garment is an insult to the countrys values. Yesterday two women wearing a Burquina an all in one bikini that covers the whole body, were ordered from ...
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Wal-Mart To Roll Out Electronic Tags To Track Clothing: Report
Beginning in August, Wal-Mart will place removable radio-frequency ID tags on individual garments that can be read by a handheld scanner, the Journal said.
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Wal-Mart to roll out electronic tags to track clothing: report (Reuters)
Reuters - Wal-Mart Stores Inc plans to roll out electronic tags to keep track of individual garments like jeans and underwear, in a move that would help the retail giant control its inventories better, the Wall Street Journal said.
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