With 67% of the population considered “poor”, Lesotho gears up to face highest US tariff rate
The highest tariff of 50% imposed on one of the smallest and poorest sub-Saharan African countries, essentially penalizes the inability of its workers producing American brands to afford them.
United Textile Employees Union (UNITE) in Lesotho holds Elective Congress
The Congress brought together 52 delegates from all its regions to participate in this important process.
The red union will never fold!
Mbali Ngwenda of the Pan Africanism Today Secretariat writes about the struggles of United Textile Employees (UNITE), the radical textile workers’ union of Lesotho
4,000 garment and textile workers quit jobs in protest in Southern India
The mass resignation of the workers was due to severe exploitation and also physical abuse by the bosses and the police.
Explained: Emergence and journey of right to sit movement in Kerala
The struggle by the workers, under the banner of Asanghadita Mekhala Tozhilali Union (AMTU) emerged victorious after the communist government in Kerala passed an amendment to the labour law ending the inhuman practice.
Workers in Lesotho’s ‘garments’ sector threaten strike
The workers in two of the Nien Hsing’s six factories demand the creation of a separate fabric and paper mill sector, the activities of which are wrongly classified under garment sector, which has the lowest pay.
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