Sentences with phrase «garment workers»

There are approximately 40 million garment workers in the world right now, and roughly 85 percent of that population is female.

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.

In 2007, more than a dozen garment workers at the PT.

To improve their lives, garment workers simply need to earn more.

Not just because women buy and wear more clothes than men, but because 80 % of garment workers are women.

The minimum wage for garment workers in Mexico is $ 5 a day, a rate that makes tortilla griddles in the cafeteria look a little less generous.

1450, where the District Court permitted punitive damages to be asserted in a wage claim brought by garment workers who were denied minimum wage and overtime.

Lead counsel defending a national department store company in federal and state court litigation brought by garment workers from the Island of Saipan.

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.

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

CAMBODIA: Riot police watched carefully as more than 1,000 garment workers defied a government ban on marching to deliver a petition to the National Assembly in Phnom Penh, demanding a higher minimum wage and more freedom of assembly.

This made the former garment worker from Rochester, N.Y., the new prince of the avenue.

Edwin Goodman, who had started out in the women's dress business as a lowly garment worker, knew he was making a potentially perilous decision in moving to an expensive location far up Fifth Avenue.

People rescue garment workers trapped under rubble at the Rana Plaza building after it collapsed, Bangladesh, India.

Chip Wilson's provocative words on child labour and garment workers put Lululemon under scrutiny.

Mayor de Blasio's great - aunt pled guilty to «having an inadequate fire alarm apparatus,» four years after the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146 garment workers less than a mile («just a short walk») south of the «Misses Briganti» home / «factory at 205 East Seventeenth Street.»

Boycotting only works in large numbers and when it does, it can negatively impact garment workers.

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

Fellow ethical fashionistas and bloggers, lovers of all things green, vintage and Fairtrade, I come bearing festive news of an ethical fashion challenge designed to change the way we think about our wardrobes, promote the ethical fashion cause and raise some much - needed money to support garment workers worldwide.

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.

The date they chose was March 8 — in recognition of the efforts of two groups of New York City garment workers.

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.

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.

A group called Remake wants fast fashion to fall out of fashion, by revealing underprivileged garment workers to the world.

A Bangladeshi garment worker who's rehabbing after his traumatic injury in the Rana Plaza disaster shows Hall his rural home — or rather, where his family migrated after their ancestral home was lost to two cyclones in two years.

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

A good example and a case study in point were the Jewish garment workers who populated the downtown Spadina area, later moving to Don Mills, and still later developing contingent areas north in Richmond Hill and Thornhill.

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

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

My grandmother, Helen, was a member of the International Ladies Garment Workers... and she always told me that a woman's place is in her union.

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.

Garment workers in a factory owned by a Levi's supplier in Nazareno, Mexico.

To help determine whether it will result in a real improvement in the lives of garment workers or in business results, Levi's has enlisted Harvard's School of Public Health to rigorously measure and study the initiative.

More companies are open about their supply chains and treatment of garment workers, but not enough has changed according to the Fashion Transparency Index.

More from the South China Morning Post: How ethical fashion is growing in Asia - Pacific and five sustainable clothing brands to watch Five years since the nightmare of Rana Plaza, what changed for Bangladesh garment workers?

It starts with rock - bottom wages: its garment workers are the world's lowest paid, earning a minimum wage of just US$ 37 a month.

Wages in Gildan's factories are still higher than those paid in Chinese factories: the average wage of a garment worker in Honduras is about $ 100 a week — four times what a Chinese worker makes.

Chances are you haven't given much thought to the inner life of the garment worker — the seamstress halfway around the world who made your clothes.

The $ 550,000 commitment was enough to buy the fabric, move into legitimate commercial space in West Hollywood, and hire 45 garment workers to fill it.

Even as Bangladesh tries to extricate itself from the Rana Plaza building collapse, the Dhaka disaster that killed more than 1,100 garment workers, one private equity fund is trying to infuse new capital into the economy: The $ 88 million Frontier Fund, a private equity fund managed by Brummer & Partners, a Stockholm - based asset manager.

MILESTONES: BANGLADESH By Udayan Gupta Even as Bangladesh tries to extricate itself from the Rana Plaza building collapse, the Dhaka disaster that killed more than 1,100 garment workers, one private equity fund is trying to infuse new capital into...

With globalism, we are all implicit, if not guilty, when there is a fire that kills low wage and unsafe condition garment workers.

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.

Following the announcement of Mayor De Blasio's plan to move fashion production out of Manhattan, the city's garment workers and designers are taking a hard pass.

They are last leaving to garment worker their infringement this night.