garment workers, Tag

Consumers and media outlets have heaped praise on companies like H&M and Marks & Spencer for pledging to pay textile workers in their factories a living wage...

A year ago, a group of Norwegian fashionistas went to Cambodia to experience life as a sweatshop worker. Their hellish experience went viral, allowing the women to bring their message about fair treatment of garment workers...

Photo by Luc Forsyth for IndustriAll Global Union Labor-rights group IndustriAll Global Union recently reported that two Cambodian garment workers have died from exhaustive working conditions--making 2014 the first year that...

The mainstream media may have forgotten about the Rana Plaza disaster, which killed 1,127, and injured or maimed scores of others, but those working for workers rights have not...

Five months after the Rana Plaza factory complex collapsed, killing 1,129 people, and drawing attention to unsafe working conditions that permeate the international fashion industry, Bangladeshi garment workers took to the...

A lot of disturbing images circulated the internet following the devastating building collapse that killed nearly 1,200 garment workers in Bangladesh last April, but none are more haunting than a series shot by AP Photographer...

The U.S. House of Representatives recently approved a defense authorization bill that will protect Bangladeshi garment workers from the same kind of tragedy that killed over one thousand workers outside of the capital Dakka....

In the weeks following the horrific Rana Plaza building collapse that killed 1,127 workers -- one of the worst tragedies in the history of the garment industry -- more than 30 of the world's leading apparel companies signed...