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Six years after the Rana Plaza garment factory collapse killed over a thousand people, Bangladeshi workers are striking for better wages and safer conditions.
On April 23, 2013, a local television crew shot footage of cracks in the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The building (...)
Above titled seminar was held CICC Auditorium, CIRDAP, Dhaka at 10 am on 25 June 2019.
Labor rights Forum convenor Labor leader Abul Hossain presided over the seminar while Member Secretary of the same and Nagorik Udyog Executive Chief Zakir Hossain moderated.
The seminar was addressed, among (...)
Exclusive: government’s own data shows no factory it inspects has eliminated high-risk safety hazards
Bangladesh’s government could assume responsibility for safety in workplaces producing clothing for major western brands this week despite demonstrating a “shocking level of unreadiness” to do (...)
• The wage protests in December of 2018 were largely peaceful;
• The response by government security forces was characterized by indiscriminate use of physical force...
• Arrests of, and criminal charges against, 65 workers were driven by demonstrably baseless complaints from managers of 30 (...)
Today on 29 March 2019 on Friday, at 11 am Bangladesh Krishiok Federation Bangladesh Kishani Sabha, Bangladesh Adivasi Samity, Bangladesh Bhumihin Samity and Labour resource Center formed a human chain demanding ’Reclaim our land, Reclaim Our Future’, Resist Landgrabbers’ as part of the programs (...)
Today on 25 February 2019 Building Construction Labor Union(ENSUB) celebrated its 25th founding anniversary at auditorium of Photo Journalist Association in Dhaka.
The celebration was presided over by Eng. Osman Ghani, President of ENSUB. Bangladesh Krishok Federation President and CPBML (...)
At least 7,580 workers from 27 factories had been laid off in recent weeks.
DHAKA, Feb 5 (Reuters) - At least three garment manufacturers in Bangladesh that supply European brands such as H&M and Next have laid off thousands of workers weeks after they had joined wage protests, union (...)
Thousands of workers in Bangladesh have taken the streets in protest since the recent implementation of the wage revision in the garment sector. When police in Dhaka started firing rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd, one worker was killed and many others were injured.
“Clean Clothes (...)
With no let-up in RMG unrest, govt may announce basic pay rise in grade 3, 4 and 5.
The government is expected to announce today a revised wage structure for apparel workers of grades 3, 4 and 5, in efforts to quell the labour unrest that has affected production in the country’s largest (...)
For the past five days, the working men and women who manufacture cheap garments for Western clothing companies have been blocking the streets
In the immense exhibition area of the International Convention City in Bashundara, government representatives and businessmen in power suits could be (...)
For the fifth consecutive day, Bangladesh’s garments workers are pursuing protests over “disparity” in their new wage structure. Prabir Das Star Online Report
For the fifth consecutive day, Bangladesh’s garments workers are pursuing protests over “disparity” in their new wage structure.Photo: Prabir (...)
Closing Dhaka office will limit international ability to inspect clothing supply chains for brands like H&M, Esprit and Primark
An international inspection regime put in place after the collapse of a Bangladesh garment factory killed more than 1,100 people will be forced to leave the (...)
Government and employers claim that women garment workers of Bangladesh are ‘thriving’ — but reforms in recent years have brought almost no improvements in wages and conditions.
Over the last decade or so, millions of garment workers in Bangladesh have repeatedly taken to the streets with demands (...)
New pact follows Bangladesh Accord, a safety agreement supported by buyers in the garment sector, established after the Rana Plaza collapse killed more than 1,000 workers
American retailer Abercrombie and Fitch, Swedish furniture giant Ikea and the clothing label of rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs are (...)
The Rana Plaza collapse claimed over a thousand lives - and showed management contempt for the safety of workers. Marienna Pope-Weidemann reports on the struggle for better conditions for garment workers in Bangladesh.
Five years ago today, Rosina Atker arrived to work as usual with her mother (...)
Press conference demanding Tk.10,000/- as basic and Tk.16000/- in total as wage, ensuring free trade union right, stopping of entrenchment and repression on workers and introduction of democratic labor law.
On 24 April 2018, a demonstration will be held in front of the Rana Plaza Building demanding trial of its owner.
Today on 20 April press conference of Garment and Textile Workers Union was held at Nirmol Sen Auditorium based in 23/2 Tofkhana road, Dhaka. In the press conference (...)
The collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory complex near Dhaka in April 2013—killing 1,132 souls and injuring nearly 2,000 more—is unquestionably the most horrific human tragedy in garment industry world history. Whether this enormous loss of life will be balanced by a new era of social reform (...)
When Ayesha Akhter walks into the factory where she works, the supervisor greets her with a smile and wishes her a pleasant day - a major change after years of physical and verbal abuse from managers in Bangladesh’s $28 billion garment industry. The seamstress said it is her biggest victory (...)
The Garment Workers’ Trade Union Centre at a rally on Monday demanded immediate release of its detained leaders, including its general secretary Joly Talukder.
GWTUC president Montu Ghosh threatened of launching a tougher and wider movement if their seven leaders were not released (...)
The National Council of the industrial labor Bangladesh Shramik Federation (Bangladesh Labor Federation) took place on 30 March 2018.
Electing Golam Satter as President and AAM Foyez as General Secretary a new committee of Bangladesh Shramik Federation (Bangladesh Labor Federation) was formed. (...)
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