Labour Behind the Label, a group that campaigns for garment workers, has calculated a wage it says should be used as a minimum for workers in Asia. It says that a single Asian “floor wage” would prevent countries competing at the expense of workers. The floor wage is enough to pay for food, water, clothing, [...]
Labor activists and union leaders in Asia have joined forces to campaign for wage rises for workers in the region’s garment industry. The umbrella organisation, Asia Floor Wage, says garment workers are routinely paid too little to afford the cost of living in their home countries. And the campaign to get workers a fair minimum [...]
29 July 2009- 1 August 2009 Triumph International Trade Union of Thailand joined actions of the Triumph union in the Philippines to fight for justice. On the 30th of July, workers of Triumph union of the Philippines together with representatives of Triumph union Thailand, Jitra Cotshadet and Thanyathorn Keereethavornpat, staged a protest in front of [...]
When a major swimwear factory in Bangkok found its sales plummeting in the downturn, it laid off some 1,000 workers, almost all of them women. That did not surprise labor activists who say women are the most vulnerable workers in recessions, especially in low wage industries in developing countries where gender equality lags. “Even before [...]
Triumph workers rallied at the Swiss Embassy in Bangkok, making demands through the embassy to Triumph International whose headquarters is located in Switzerland. After the embassy refused to come out to receive their petition, the workers read out the demands, burned the petition and left. On July 24, over a thousand workers who are to [...]
The Asian Transnational Corporation Monitoring Network (ATNC) strongly condemns the closure of the Triumph International Philippines factory inside the FTI Complex in Taguig City and the nearby Star Performance Incorporated as well, as the layoff of nearly 50% of the workforce in the Body Fashion Thailand (BFT), Triumph International’s Thai subsidiary. The ground reality Philippines: [...]
An announcement yesterday that 1,930 workers at Body Fashion (Thailand) will be laid off prompted more than 1,000 workers to stage a protest. The company is a subsidiary of Triumph International (Thailand), a leading manufacturer of Triumph-brand lingerie and swimwear. In a statement, Body Fashion said the lay-offs were due to the global recession and [...]
Thailand Triumph International has started it operation to laid off 50% of their workers in Thailand, about 2000 workers, mostly union’s members who participate in the strike action last years. The workers refuse to leave the compound to protest the action. Source: Thai Labour Campaign ———————— The Philippines MANILA – Hundreds of workers in the [...]
Sportswear supplier Russell Athletic is facing growing pressure from students and other anti-sweatshop activists and US and Canadian universities to get serious about remediating well-documented violations of workers’ rights at its recently closed Jerzees de Honduras factory in Choloma, Honduras. In response to reports from separate investigations carried out by the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) [...]
In July 2008, PT Megariamas Sentosa (SBGTS) factory, an underwear producer for Pierre Cardin in Indonesia, dismissed the trade union leader Abidin. The excuse was that he had attended a training course organised by the Federation of Independent Indonesian Trade Unions (GSBI) without the approval of the factory management. About half of the workers went [...]
