http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts/ en-us contact@trilogyinteractive.com (Trilogy Interactive) Fri, 24 May 2013 15:03:36 -0500 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Fri, 24 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0433 If a journalist with a hidden camera can walk into the factory and quickly document that aEURoethere was just one rickety fire escape for 400 people,aEUR? and that aEURoemany of the workers appeared to be children themselves,aEUR? how is it possible that the European labels have no idea where or how their garments are being sewn? http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0433 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0432 A CBS News crew went undercover at the Monde Apparels factory outside of Dhaka, where 1,400 workers-mostly young women, including dozens of 12-year-olds-were sewing one million boxer shorts for Wal-Mart, shirts for Wrangler and jackets for ASICS. http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0432 Thu, 16 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0430 Injured workers speak out. "The iron bar that hit my back broke the tissue and muscle. I need further medical care. I have one sister who also works in a garment factory. I wonder if I will be able to lead a normal life," 20-year-old Jasmine Sultana told us. http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0430 Fri, 10 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0429 Incredible news from the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh today. Reshma, a woman trapped for 17 days underneath the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plana, was found and rescued alive. Death toll has reached 1040. http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0429 Tue, 07 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0427 Give. Today. For those who paid an unforgivable price for their jobs, making the clothes that we buy. Hundreds of severely injured workers have been sent home to make room for those even more severely injured. These workers are in need of care, but are being sent home with nothing a"EUR no medical care, no medicines, no rehabilitation, no money for food or rent. These workers and their families are in desperate need of help. http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0427 Tue, 07 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0428 717 bodies have been recovered from the devastating collapse of the Rana Plaza building. Four hundred workers remain hospitalized. Six hundred workers have been released from the hospital. We estimate that some 200 of these workers are in need of emergency assistance. http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0428 Mon, 06 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0426 The death toll at the Rana Plaza building has reached 665 as of Monday morning U.S. Eastern Time while less than 50 percent of the rubble has been removed. Survivor, Morium Begum told us, "We demand justice as so many lives have been lost and so many others seriously injured and maimed. I wish it never happens again!" http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0426 Sun, 05 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0425 20-year-old Shapla lost her left arm and sustained a serious head injury from the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh. "I worked so hard to save a little money for the future of my son, for his education. Now my hope is dashed." http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0425 Sun, 05 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0424 Bangladesh death toll reaches 610 in Rana Plaza factory collapse. A widow filed murder charges. We believe this may be the first time in Bangladesh's history that factory managers have been charged with homicide for a workplace death. http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0424 Fri, 03 May 2013 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0423 Death toll of Bangladesh factory has reached 511. The families of Rana Plaza workers report to a local labor union about workers accounted for, dead or still missing. The U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) should be suspended until the country's garment workers have the right to freedom of association and the right to organize independent unions. Family of a missing worker, Beauty, recalls her last words: aEURoeI want to live for my kidsaEUR|Save...save...save me!aEUR? http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0423