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

   Bangladesh factories had an extremely poor record of workplace safety standards and industrial building ... Workers & unions International solidarity Economy Democracy Two years after the 2013 factory ... companies that sourced their products from the Rana factory. The plaintiffs claim the retailers knew “that ...

2. Bangladesh: Factory boss arrested as rage hits streets

   Workers & unions Economy The owner of the eight-storey Bangladesh factory complex that ... Three owners of garment factories in the collapsed building on the capital's outskirts have also ... anger in Bangladesh over the disaster and fresh clashes between police and protesters erupted again on ...

3. Bangladesh: Factory fire kills teenage garment workers

   factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh — until the fire broke out at 2:30 p.m,” Global Labour Rights said on January ... “Bangladesh’s labor and human rights organizations have taken to the streets once again, demanding safety and ... fundamental rights for Bangladesh’s four million mostly young women garment workers. The Bangladeshi ...

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

   Workers & unions Bangladesh police have used batons, rubber bullets and tear gas in a bid to ... industrial districts near the capital Dhaka, on September 25, forced the closure more than 100 factories for ... the day, police said. Gazipur and Narayanganj house hundreds of factories that supply garment products ...

5. Bangladesh’s garment workers: the human faces behind ‘fast fashion’

   of the factories where they produce clothing for the Global North for as little as 39 cents an hour. ... “Made in Bangladesh” in discount department stores around the world. As they pass, the women’s colourful ... sarees are striking. The overwhelming majority of garment workers in Bangladesh are women. Most have no ...

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

   demand safety at work after the collapse of garment factory on April 24-- the country's worst ... "direct action" and "death penalty" for the owner of the factory. From a loudspeaker on the ... not be valueless." Five garment factories were housed in the illegally constructed eight-storey ...

7. Women workers attacked in Bangladesh

   Five hundred garment workers in Bangladesh have been sacked, five women raped and three women ... the National Garment Workers' Federation of Bangladesh has mobilised a courageous campaign under ... There are over one million workers, mainly women and children, in the garment industry in Bangladesh ...

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

   remains a long way off. In Bangladesh, the Accord has made factories safer, but the right to form and join ... recommended the previous day that all factory operations be suspended. Bank and shop employees on the lower ... The danger had been wilfully ignored, not just by the factory bosses but by the fashion brands that ...

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

   Workers & unions Garment manufacturers in Bangladesh agreed to raise workers’ pay, commerce ... killed one worker and wounded dozens more. The protest wave pushed the Bangladesh government to consider ... concession from the government and manufacturing bosses came after nearly 50 factories closed when thousands ...

10. BANGLADESH: Workers revolt against pay squeeze

    Multi-Fibre Agreement expired, exposing textile and garment exporting countries like Bangladesh to greater ... competition. Bangladesh's garment industry is virtually 100% export-oriented, with Bangladeshi garment ... environments. In 2005, 130 garment workers in Bangladesh died on the job and at least 950 were injured. Garment ...

11. Victory as Bangladesh garment workers released

    a government crackdown on trade unionists and garment workers in Bangladesh have paid off as the 35 activists ... government of Bangladesh to stop its crackdown on garment workers seeking union rights and a living wage. As ... a result, a tripartite agreement was reached on February 23, between the IndustriALL Bangladesh Council ...

12. BANGLADESH: Workers protest deaths

    garments factory caved in the dead of night on April 11, killing at least 76 people, with another 36 ... the factory closure. At the protest, former employees told stories of destitution: many had been ...

13. Bangladesh: What has changed after Rana Plaza?

    about the nature of the relationship between retailers and their labour force in Bangladesh. For a brief ... was concerned about the situation in Bangladesh, there was a general feeling that “something” should ... factories.” This development has been cautiously welcomed by Bangladeshi labour organisations, but the sign-up ...

14. BANGLADESH: Strike wave greets government changeover

    League government, a strike and protest wave is gripping Bangladesh. After thousands of garment workers ... entry point to the Chittagong port. The workers feared that the viability of Bangladesh's national ... backed the strike call, in an impressive united action under the banner of Bangladesh Garment Workers ...

15. Rising powers, multipolarity and capitalism’s ‘final crisis’

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

16. Get the terrorists-- unless they are Walmart

    from the sweatshop wages paid in garment factory death traps in Bangladesh and around the world. ... other big brands in Bangladesh killed more than 950 people (as of May 9) on April 24 in one of their ... garment factory death traps, the FBI sat on its hands. But those responsible — Wal-mart’s board of ...

17. Nike workers arrested, injured, fired

    company now has five factories in Chittagong and seven in Bangladesh, with two more to open soon. Youngone ... 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 (50 seriously), 97 ...

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 ...

21. International news briefs

    Protesting factory workers barricaded road and rail links between the Bangladesh capital Dhaka and the ... right of the Tibetan people to self-determination from Chinese rule. Bangladesh workers strike ...

22. Corporate greed is killing workers

    Economy Sarah Hathway The eight-storey Rana Plaza collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh, during working ... evacuation. Rana Plaza was home to offices, apartments, shops, a bank and several garment factories ... order was given to evacuate, the entire building was cleared, however the garment factory workers were ...

23. On the box

    particularly Bangladesh. SBS, Friday, March 2, 8.30pm. Vladimir Mayakovsky — The life and work of Russian ... sports icon Nike have been using a factory in Cambodia which breaks their "strict" codes of ...

24. Rana Plaza murders will not be forgotten

    on the ground floor obeyed the advice, but the owners of the garment factory spread across the upper ... of life and adequate health and safety provisions. This T-shirt made in Bangladesh retails in Bourke ... garment and footwear industry still depends on the super-exploitation of workers in Bangladesh and other ...

25. Scandinavia’s covert imperialist role

    Bangladesh to cover the cost of the factory, the workers, the suppliers and the government. The remaining ... workers in impoverished nations such as Bangladesh. As John Smith points out in his book Imperialism in ... underpays workers in impoverished nations such as Bangladesh World ...

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