Sentences with phrase «garment workers who»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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These are apparel workers, some of the low - wage workhorses who power the global garment industry.

The company employs some 10,000 workers, most of them sewers, but also local managers who oversee the operation of each hub, which produces some 375 million garments a year.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

At a briefing in Lagos, Mr. Issa Aremu, General Secretary, National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria, NUTGTWN, who was represented by one of his deputies, Mr. Sylvester Chimezie, said: «Whoever kidnaps a girl child kidnaps a future.

However, research from the Garment Worker Diaries has made me concerned that the women who make my clothes are not paid enough to afford life's necessities and support their families.

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.

Steven Kolb, president and CEO, the Council of Fashion Designers of America: «I worry about his position on immigration and how it will impact the workforce of our industry from garment workers to design students who come here to study and want to stay.

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.

My mother came to the Bronx from Puerto Rico as a little girl, the child of a single mother who was a garment worker.