Sentences with phrase «for garment workers»

In much of the world, wages for garment workers have stagnated or even gone down, while the cost of living goes up around them.

Created by British organization Labour Behind the Label, which campaigns to improve conditions for garment workers, participants in the Six Items Challenge pledge to wear only six items of clothing for approximately six weeks, the full duration of Lent.

M'Sa strongly believes there's no beauty in clothing if those who make it are suffering, and she is a huge advocate of fair wages for garment workers.

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

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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.

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At most, you're looking at spending $ 2.08 extra for a T - shirt to improve the safety and wages of garment workers.

We explore JPMorgan Chase's bold and urgent campaign to revive one of America's iconic industrial cities and Levi Strauss's effort to make life better for some of the 300,000 garment workers who make its jeans.

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.

To help prevent future catastrophes, worker advocates have recently promoted an international accord that sets mandatory safety standards for garment factories.

In June 2011, for example, more than 280 workers vomited and fainted in a three - day period at the King Fashion Garment Company factory in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which made dresses and knitted tops for brands including H&M, a former Li & Fung client.

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.»

Indeed, this is what seems to be happening around the planet — garment workers in places like Mexico or Guatemala or Honduras find themselves having somehow to match the wages of Chinese or Vietnamese or Laotian employees, not to mention the demand of Wal - Mart executives for ever - cheaper prices.

Since this tragic incident, described as the worst in the garment industry, there have been a number of initiatives, including joint - retailers» agreements — the Accord on Fire and Safety in Bangladesh and the Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety.

Great for CEOs who earn in four days what a garment worker in Bangladesh earns in her lifetime, but a really raw deal for those for whom a small increase in income would make a massive difference.

For example, I bought a great suit, made in Roanoke, Virginia by the ladies garment worker union, at my local thrift shop a few weeks ago.

Gap's PACE programme has improved retention and productivity amongst female garment workers, paying dividends for workers and employers alike.

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.

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Back in 1996, Callaghan organized 70 Spanish - speaking immigrant parents, who boycotted the Ninth Street Elementary School — calling for an end to failed bilingual - education methods and instead demanding that the school system teach the children of immigrant garment workers academic English as soon as possible.

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

He is involved in the Long Beach, CA participatory arts scene where he is a facilitator at the Institute for Labor Garments Workers and Uniforms (ILGWU).

Elsewhere, garment workers report physical and verbal abuse when they fail to meet impossible quotas for the day.

The company pays a decent wage to its factory workers in Pakistan plus it pays a 15 % Fair Trade premium on every garment made, which supports health and welfare projects for workers and their families in Pakistan.

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.