Garment industry
Sitting targets: negligence and occupational risk in Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan writer Shiran Illanperuma takes an intimate look at labor conditions in the island nation, from factories to plantations
Despite eight-year struggle, Tazreen fire victims in Bangladesh yet to get justice
On November 24, 2012, a short-circuit triggered a massive fire at the nine-story Tazreen garment factory in Ashulia,. Over 110 workers were killed. Eight years on, many of the families of victims and survivors are still in a bad state
Swaziland union vows to fight back after Taiwanese garment factory files “false” charges
FTM Garments filed a case against Amalgamated Trade Unions of Swaziland (ATUSWA), a week after the union had taken the company to court over the former’s refusal to recognize it
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