Police and fear stalk the streets of Dhaka as clothes workers fight for more than £54 a month. Garment workers in Bangladesh endure harsh conditions and the world’s lowest minimum wage.
Fewer workers than usual have been gathering for cups of chai near the guarded, grey towers of Ashulia, a hub (...)
Dozens have been arrested amid clashes with police as impoverished workers demand a trebling of pay.
At least 1,500 workers have been sacked from Bangladesh garment factories after protests forced a week-long shutdown at dozens of sites supplying top European and American brands.
Tens of (...)
Child labourers in the slums of Dhaka are working on average 64 hours a week – many of them employed by the garments sector, according to a new report from the Overseas Development Institute.
In one of the largest surveys on child work and education conducted in Bangladesh, researchers found (...)
Researchers and activists say working conditions have hardly improved for garment workers since the Bangladesh factory collapse killed 1,138 people.
It’s been more than three years since 1,138 workers were killed when the Rana Plaza factory collapsed in Bangladesh, yet little progress has been (...)
More than half of H&M’s top suppliers based in Bangladesh have yet to install basic fire-safety measures more than two years after the Rana Plaza factory collapse spurred an international effort to improve safety in the country.
More than a third of H&M’s top-rated “gold” and “platinum” (...)
New claims process established for the victims of the Tazreen fire; Brands called upon to pay into Fund before the November 24 anniversary.
The Clean Clothes Campaign and the International Labor Rights Forum are today calling on international brands, including Walmart and El Corte Ingles, to (...)
China has changed a lot in twenty-five years, but there are still valuable lessons to be learned from the Tiananmen protesters.
In 1989, the news about protesters being massacred in Tiananmen Square reached my downtown Manhattan neighborhood, and I joined in a public art protest, with (...)
The collapse of the Rana Plaza factory building is the bloodiest disaster in the history of the garment industry. Socialist Alternative’s industrial organiser Jerome Small visited the scene, just outside Dhaka in Bangladesh, late last year.
Early November, 2014. It’s my first day in Dhaka, and (...)
Introduction
On 24 April 2013 the first anniversary of Rana Plaza collapse has been observed by the different national and international organizations. It was the day when 8 storied building collapsed claiming 1138 garments workers of whom mostly are female garment workers in Savar near the (...)
Liz Ross, whose article ‘Defying the stereotypes: women textile workers in Bangladesh’ appears in the lastest Marxist Left Review, reports on the Tuba Group workers’ struggle for justice.
“Murderer Delwar”: a fitting title for a boss responsible for the fiery deaths of 124 workers in November 2012 (...)
Most of the survivors, around 66 percent, of the Rana Plaza tragedy are leading an inhuman life in the face of difficulties to meet their daily needs, according to a survey.
Survey: most workers find it difficult to make ends meet.
A total of 2,222 victims were surveyed, including 1,436 (...)
International Women’s Day was originally conceived as International Working Women’s Day and organized in part by the Second International. This piece was written for the holiday and to honor that tradition of fighting for working women’s rights.
Next month will be the first anniversary of the (...)
A LabourStart campaign in partnership with IndustriALL Global Union, UNI Global Union and the Clean Clothes Campaign.
We cannot allow the one-year anniversary of one of the worst industrial accidents, Rana Plaza, to pass on 24 April without compensation being paid to the injured and victims (...)
Following the failed compensation talks in Geneva in September 2013, an agreement has now been reached and a process established to compensate the victims of the Rana Plaza factory disaster in Bangladesh. Very few of the 28 retailers involved, however, have signed the accord or agreed to (...)
This report denotes the responsibility of a peasants’ organization of Bangladesh on the precarious situation of the garment sector and financial activities it operated around them.
Rana Plaza building collapse that took place on 23 April resulting in 1,129 death tolls and 3,500 severe wounded (...)
The owners dare to make such a degrading and utterly insensitive offer because they are well organised under the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters’ Association with the shining but illegal eyesore of a head office located in the middle of a lake. They receive hefty government (...)
Ignoring the government’s call for returning to work, garment workers in Narayanganj, Ashulia and Kaliakoir staged violent demonstrations for the sixth consecutive day on Thursday to push their demand for Tk 8,100 in minimum monthly wage.
Workers went on the rampage in Narayanganj even after (...)
In the wake of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh this April, the corporations who use the factory expressed grave concern for the deceased workers and their families and committed to helping them.
Built on swampland outside the capital city of Dhaka and housing five factories, when (...)
In Bangladesh, the transnational corporations’ production system regressed into one of its most brutal manifestations. Most safeguards that could prevent or at least mitigate the exploitation of workers have been eliminated. While capital enjoys complete freedom, the working class, shackled by (...)
The collapse of Rana Plaza in Savar shows the urgent need to improve Bangladesh’s protections for worker health and safety, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today.
Reforms should include a drastic overhaul of the government’s system of labour inspections and an end to government efforts to thwart (...)
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