Please read this Human Rights Watch report on union busting in Bangladesh's garment industry. Two years after Rana Plaza, conditions have changed slightly for the better because of pressure from.
It's long been known that better working conditions and higher pay lead to happier and more productive workers. Yet short-sighted greed and corporate resentment over treating workers like human beings.
I love this campaign by the Canadian Fair Trade Network that plays on country of origin labels to describe the working conditions in those nations. "100% cotton. Made in Cambodia.
This is precisely the reason why we need to be able to hold American corporations legally accountable for the actions of the suppliers: Textile companies that make clothing for transnational.
We all support professional athletes wearing shirts protesting the horrors of police violence against people of color. But what happens when that protest runs up against a horror equally as.
On December 5, 1894, Alabama repealed its child labor law in order to convince the officials of the Dwight Manufacturing Company, a textile corporation, to move its mill operations from.
Sweatshop factories in California are making a non-zero amount of your clothes: Workers in the California garment industry are enduring poor working conditions and insufficient pay, the US Department of.
This little piece on the United Students Against Sweatshops chapter at the University of Washington reminded of the importance of these student groups in fostering young activists against the systems.
