http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts/ en-us contact@trilogyinteractive.com (Trilogy Interactive) Mon, 07 May 2012 13:07:09 -0500 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Fri, 04 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0381 The PBS Series Craft in America "Threads" features Terese Agnew and her marvelous work of art, Portrait of a Textile Worker. Watch preview here. http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0381 Fri, 04 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0382 On Wednesday, May 2, 2012, 32-year-old Mansur Ali was crushed to death at the Sima shipyard, while dismantling a huge hydraulic door in the engine room of a ship named the Tinos. http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0382 Thu, 03 May 2012 12:00:00 -0400 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0380 The retailers, Chinese management and the Bangladeshi authorities want to fire and get rid of the top elected union leaders at the Rosita and Megatex factories. Over 90 percent of the workforce voted for these leaders, and just last week, over 4,000 workers signed a petition demanding their reinstatement-especially for Mr. Helaluddin and Mr. Belal. http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0380 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0379 Please help. It does not have to be this way. Write Liz Claiborne, Macy's, J.C. Penney, and Kohl's. http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0379 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0378 Megatex management unilaterally slashed the workers' wages by 20 to 47 percent! http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0378 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0375 BHS/Arcadia Group, Dressmann/Varner Group and de Bijenkorf responded to sweatshop conditions at their suppliers, Rosita and Megatex factories in Bangladesh. http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0375 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0374 Rosita and Megatex management have alerted the workers that foreign buyers may soon visit the factories and coached workers to tell monitors that everything is fine. More workers continue to be fired and work hours remain as long. http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0374 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0373 Please send a brief personal note to the retailers urging them to send senior management representatives to Bangladesh to meet with the workers and the Institute in order to guarantee that Bangladeshi labor laws and the ILO worker rights standards are finally respected. http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0373 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0372 The nearly 300 illegally fired workers pressing for reinstatement are blocked from entering the Export Processing Zone. To date, 14 elected labor leaders from the two Workers Welfare Associations have been fired from Rosita Knitwears and Megatex factories. http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0372 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 12:00:00 -0500 http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0370 We would like to ask Ms. Kardashian and other celebrities: Why is it that they hide their factories in China? Why is it that they refuse to provide the American people with the names and addresses of their supplier factories? What are they afraid of? http://www.globallabourrights.org/alerts?id=0370