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- Fast Fashion Retailers Agree to Raise Minimum Wage for Cambodian Garment Makers Mon, 29 Sep 14, 3:00amEight fast fashion retail giants, including H&M, New Look, Next, and Zara's parent company Inditex, have agreed to increase the minimum wage for their garment makers in Cambodia...
- The Fashion Industry Learned Nothing from the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Mon, 14 Apr 14, 3:00amRecent disasters like the Rana Plaza fire in Bangladesh have created awareness about unsafe working conditions in the overseas fashion industry. What most people don't know is that a pervasive lack of concern about workers...
- Bangladesh Garment Workers to See Their Minimum Wage Pay Increase by 77 Percent Mon, 18 Nov 13, 2:59amWorkers in Bangladesh's garment industry finally have some good news to celebrate. After several days of violent protests that forced the closure of 200 factories in the Ashulia industrial belt, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...
- Journalist Goes Undercover to Document Life as a Worker in a Bangladesh Sweatshop Mon, 21 Oct 13, 1:30amWhen you buy a piece of clothing, chances are high that you purchasing the work of someone living in Bangladesh. Journalist, Raveena Aulakh decided to go undercover as an employee in a Bangladeshi sweatshop for four days....
- 15 Apparel Brands Who Have Not Signed the Bangladesh Safety Accord Sun, 2 Jun 13, 2:42amFollowing the deaths of 1,127 garment workers in the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh on April 24, more than 40 of the world's leading apparel brands have signed the Accord on Fire & Building Safety in Bangladesh...
- Debunked: 10 of the Most Common Excuses for Not Paying a Living Wage Sun, 30 Sep 12, 4:42amFast fashion companies have plenty of excuses for not paying workers a fair living wage. Consumers don’t want to pay more for clothes, they argue, and they insist that they’re helping create jobs for people in...
- Activists Stage Flash “Faint-Ins” at Clothing Stores in Europe to Protest Sweatshop Conditions Sun, 23 Sep 12, 12:50amCheap fashion often comes at a high price for the sweatshop workers who create the garments, which is why activists from the Clean Clothes Campaign took to clothing stores throughout Europe last week and staged “faint-ins.”...