Sentences with phrase «garment workers working»

Left: Garment workers working in the factory in Phnom Penh, courtesy of the artist Right: Worker dormitory near Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ), courtesy of the artist At this talk, Piyapongwiwat will share us what these collections of moments will narrate in today's globalizing community and will revolve around the issues on work environment, wage, and labor conditions in the Southeast Asia's garment industry, as the reverse side of globalism in our economic and cultural activities.

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As a result, safer work conditions are becoming more of a reality for the nearly five million garment - industry workers in Bangladesh.

One organization that has worked to improve working conditions for garment workers is the independent Workers Rights Consworkers is the independent Workers Rights ConsWorkers Rights Consortium.

And last year, Li & Fung was responsible for some garments produced at the Tazreen Fashions factory, when 112 workers died in November in a fire after many of them were ordered to continue working even though alarms had sounded.

Today thousands of garment workers took to the streets to protest the industry's poor working conditions in the country where many work 12 - hour shifts for up to 30 days a month.

While shopping for affordable clothes, you can't help to think about the price paid by garment factory workers working 20 hours a day.

For Sachs, Bangladeshi workers are akin to the immigrants who once worked on New York's Lower East Side, «where their migration to toil in garment factories was a step on the path to a future of urban affluence in succeeding generations.»

It came about to honor the 1908 garment workers strike in New York City, when women protested against unsafe working conditions.

And the very real truth is that the majority of the garment workers around the world are not paid a fair wage, are working in unsafe or unsanitary conditions, and are often forced or coerced into working long and grueling hours.

A CEO from one of the world's top five global fashion brands has to work for just four days to earn what a garment worker in Bangladesh will earn in an The subject here is the wives & girlfriends of several richest men in the world.

A CEO from one of the world's top five global fashion brands has to work for just four days to earn what a garment worker in Bangladesh will earn in an TheRichest is the world's leading source of shocking and intriguing content surrounding celebrities, money, global events, society, pop culture, sports and

On March 8, 1857, garment workers staged one of the world's first organized actions by working women, striking against the inhumane working conditions in New York City textile factories.

More than 50 years later, on March 8, 1909, women garment workers in New York again struck for better wages and improved working conditions.

This is Vinebaum's newest work in an ongoing series featuring the language of labor movements past and present, and in particular the language of the International Ladies» Garment Workers» Union.

Workers are required to wear special lightweight outer garments known as «bunny suits» and spend most of their day working in clean rooms to prevent contamination of the cells and circuitry.

In fact, as garment worker Fatema Khatun Munni tells the CBC's Carol Off, when she tried to leave the building due to concerns for her own safety, she was bullied back to work.