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		<title>Workers Strike over Chinese New Year Wage Dispute in Yangon</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s Hlaing Tharyar Industrial Zone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apple’s Profit Skyrockets, Workers Die at Its Factories</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hours after Apple released its first quarter earnings, which showed a mind-blowing 44.7 percent profit, the New York Times published another in a series of articles illustrating some of the reasons behind Apple’s profit margin. Describing the conditions in which Chinese workers assemble iPhones, iPads and a panoply of Apple products, the report states: Employees [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workers Win after Kandal Factory Strike in Cambodia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 2,000 workers at a Kandal province garment factory had returned to work on Saturday Jan 14 and 6,000 more planned to return on Jan 16 after nearly three weeks of strikes, company and union representatives said on Jan 15. Yung Wah Factory administrative director Ing Minchuan confirmed that the roughly 2,000 workers at Yung [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saudi Arabia Bans Trade Unions and Violates All International Labour Standards</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report from the International Trade Union Confederation on workers’ rights in Saudi Arabia has uncovered alarming levels of child labour, discrimination and forced labour. The report, due to be delivered to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) review of the Gulf Kingdom’s trade policies on 25th January, found that Saudi Arabia is in violation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workers ‘Win’ after Kandal Factory Strike in Cambodia</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly 2,000 workers at a Kandal province garment factory had returned to work on Saturday January 14 and 6,000 more planned to return on January 16 after nearly three weeks of strikes, company and union representatives said on January 15. Yung Wah Factory administrative director Ing Minchuan confirmed that the roughly 2,000 workers at Yung [...]]]></description>
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