Sentences with phrase «of garment workers»

Eighty percent of garment workers are young women between 18 and 24.

Las Familias del Pueblo is holding its first parent meeting in 13 years of providing after - school care to the children of garment workers.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Not exact matches

DHAMRAI, Bangladesh — A few hundred workers, activists and relatives of victims of a 2013 garment factory collapse in Bangladesh that killed 1,134 people and left thousands injured held a rally Tuesday as the country marked the fifth anniversary of the disaster.

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

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

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.

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.

Haiti's fledgling garment industry, with some 31,000 workers, has been the subject of criticism by Nova's group — unfairly, its representatives contend.

Unique trade preferences granted by the U.S. under the HOPE Act has Haitian entrepreneurs dreaming of growing a garment industry with 1 million workers in a country with a population of 10 million.

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.

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.

Demonstrators stand outside of the Li Fung tower in Hong Kong as they protest over what they say are unpaid wages owed to textile workers in Turkey by Li and Fung and garment brand Esprit.

Fisher does not mention the not awe - inspiring 21 cent an hour wages paid to garment factory workers in Bangladesh, 112 of whom just died a fiery death in the Tazreen Fashions factory outside of Dhaka because there were no outside fire escapes.

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.

That the race is more to the bottom than the top was perhaps illustrated a few weeks ago when a garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed, killing dozens of workers.

If you don't live in America, than you will still be happy to know that since your Super Undies are made in America, you are certainly not supporting any third world sweat shops or unethical labor practices, and that the garment you are receiving has not come into contact with any harmful substances or dioxins that could cause their workers a wide range of illnesses including infertility and various cancers.

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.

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.»

The governor further said that the garment factory, with 1,000 workers, would be increased to 3,000 in 2018 as part of his administration» sdrive to engage the unemployed in the state.

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.

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.

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.

The EFCC chairman said this when he paid a courtesy visit to the National Union of Textiles and Garment Tailoring Workers of Nigeria in Kaduna.

On its own, the National Union of Textile, Garments and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari against the sale of the nation's assets.

Expected participants include injured workers and members of affected families of Garments at Rana Plaza.

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.

You may or may not remember me writing about this week last year, but Fashion Revolution was started after the tragedy of the Rana Plaza complex collapse disaster in 2013 where over 1,110 garment factory workers were killed.

Considering that women in developing countries make up a larger percentage of the world's garment workers — and the world's poor — than men, women of color are often the main beneficiaries of these kinds of businesses.

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.

Since the worst disaster in the history of the garment industry, collaboration on safety has improved, but worker welfare lags behind, experts say.

The belief that all workers and those affected by the production of garments should be treated equally and fairly, is the common mindset behind most ethical fashion brands.

The International Ladies Garment Workers» Union was one of the first United States unions to have a primarily female membership!

That there are systemic problems with current manufacturing practices is undeniable; but, as addressed in one of the comments, what happens to garment factory workers if those factories close down because US consumers start buying only «made in USA»?

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.

Among the many different unions, ILGWU, the International Ladies» Garment Workers» Union, was one of the most prevalent and powerful, and the first major union to have mostly women members.

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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Ku Qian (Unrated) The impact of modernization on Eastern China is examined in this documentary chronicling a day in the life of a migrant worker in the garment industry.

She's also a frequent radio and television guest commenting on topics ranging from intellectual property in fashion and garment industry workers» rights to the deplorable shortage of decent female superhero films.

Earlier this year, a general strike by garment workers — seeking a living wage of US$ 160 / month — was violently suppressed.