After a full week without reaching a resolution, a strike that began on Monday at a shoe factory in an industrial estate in eastern Rangoon has spread to two other factories, according to labour activists. The strike started earlier this week after 1,800 workers at the Chinese-owned Tai Yi Slipper factory in Hlaing Tharyar Industrial [...]
Panellists at the first “Permanent People’s Tribunal” on wages and conditions for Cambodian garment workers yesterday released their findings, declaring that a living wage for workers should be considered a “human right”. The hearing included two days of testimony by workers, labour experts and brand-name buyers. While panellists did not specify what a living wage [...]
A.Muruganantham has empowered hundreds of women across India through his low-cost machine that makes sanitary napkins. He talks to Akila Kannadasan about his innovation It was a lazy afternoon at the Muruganantham household. A. Muruganantham was watching a movie on his black-and-white TV after lunch. His wife Shanthi furtively left the room with dirty rags [...]
The sky is still dark when the flood starts. It begins with a trickle, a handful of young people walking to work in the concrete landscape of Vattanac Industrial Park in a dusty corner of Phnom Penh. But suddenly, just as the sun rises, the wide access road running between the factories on either side [...]
A panel of international and local judges on Wednesday February 8 called on garment factories in Cambodia to urgently increase employees’ salaries and pressed big international clothing brands to do more to improve working conditions, according to the Reuters News Agency. The call was issued by a “People’s Tribunal” of judges representing the Asian Floor [...]
Strikes and sit-ins are almost unheard-of in Singapore. So it’s no wonder a sit-in involving foreign construction workers Monday morning (Feb 6) is making headlines. The low-wage migrant workers, who, like the much of the city-state’s construction force are from Bangladesh, gathered in a vacant field near their dormitories Monday in Tampines, a part of [...]
Workers at Israeli airports, hospitals, banks and government ministries began a nationwide strike Wednesday February 8 after union and government negotiators were unable to bridge differences over the employment of subcontracted workers. The strike followed the failure of overnight negotiations between Israel’s trade union organization, Histardut, and the ministry of finance. At issue is the [...]
More than a thousand workers at a Chinese-owned shoe factory in Yangon went on strike on Monday February 6 after they discovered that they would not be paid for an enforced five-day break to mark the Chinese New Year. The strike, by workers of the Tai Yi Slipper factory in Yangon’s Hlaing Tharyar Industrial Zone [...]
Workers in Cambodia will hold a “people’s tribunal” next week to investigate pay and conditions at factories working for fashion brands including H&M and Gap. An international panel of judges will hear evidence from workers, factories and multinational brands including Puma and Adidas. H&M said it would not attend but would supply information about how [...]
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