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Apparel companies have the most power — and thus the most responsibility — to ensure their suppliers are maintaining safe and healthy work environments. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/02/12/nandan-denim-fire/
"Nothing prevents a brand from cleaning up its buying practices to reduce its complicity in abusive cost-cutting by factories." Excellent piece by @ajkashy of @hrw on how brands must & can make sure that workers earn a living wage in a normal working week. https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/02/04/wake-call-garment-companies
Gender-based violence study in Brazilian garment factories provides a ‘wake-up call to action’ http://bit.ly/36WaarK via @equaltimes
AFWA's statement on the death of garment workers due to a fire at the Nandan Garment Factory, at Gujarat, India.
Asia Floor Wage Alliance supports the local trade unions and labour rights organizations’ holding global brands responsible for the egregious violations and the deaths of the workers. We demand that brands compensate for the death, injury, and loss of employment resulting from this fire on the basis of international standards on living wage and on workers’ pain and suffering.
Click here to read the statement : asia.floorwage.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Gujarat-Fire-2-converted.pdf
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Seven people died when the only escape from a fire at an Indian denim factory was up a ladder
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The deadly blaze has renewed questions about the responsibility apparel companies have to guarantee safe conditions in their supply chains."After 3 years of students campaigning alongside AFSCME 3299 workers from across the University of California (UC) system, workers recently won a historic contract with strong language against outsourcing of union jobs, a long-overdue wage increase, language to advance workforce inclusion and training, free speech protections, and immigrant rights protections."
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BREAKING! Student Solidarity Wins Big Across University of California System! – USAS
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BREAKING! Student Solidarity Wins Big Across University of California System! Posted on February 3, 2020February 5, 2020 by USAS BREAKING! Student Solidarity Wins Big Across University of California System! usas.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IMG_9055-1.mp4 After 3 years of students campaign...
The Asia Floor Wage Alliance is an Asian labour-led global labour and social alliance across garment producing countries and consumer regions for addressing poverty level wages, gender discrimination, and freedom of association in global garment production networks.
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