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Bangladesh Garment Workers Sacked For Demanding Fair Wages
The South Asian country -- the world's eighth most populous, with about 170 million citizens -- was last month rocked by its worst labour unrest in a decade.
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150 Bangladesh Garment Factories Shut "Indefinitely", 11,000 Workers Charged
Bangladeshi garment manufacturers on Saturday shuttered 150 factories "indefinitely", as police issued blanket charges for 11,000 workers in connection with violent protests demanding a higher minimum wage, officers said.
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Bangladesh Increases Garment Workers Minimum Pay By 56%: Report
Bangladesh raised the minimum monthly wage for its four million garment workers by 56.25 percent on Tuesday, a decision immediately rejected by unions seeking a near-tripling of the figure.
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Levi's, H&M Stop Production As Bangladesh Labour Protest Intensifies
Levi's and H&M are among the top global clothing brands to suffer production halts in Bangladesh, a garment union leader said Friday, after days of violent protests by workers demanding a near-tripling of their wages.
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Bangladesh Cops, Garment Workers Clash During Protest Over Low Wage
Bangladeshi police clashed on Tuesday with thousands of garment workers demanding fair wages for the clothing they make for major Western brands, a day after similar protests left at least two people dead.
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Japan's Uniqlo Suspends Most Bangladesh Travel, Others Reviewing Operations
Foreign companies with nationals working in Bangladesh's garment and building industries have suspended travel to the country and told workers there to stay at home after a deadly attack by Islamist terrorists on a restaurant in Dhaka on Friday.
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Bangladesh Says 80% of Garment Factories Safe
More than 80 per cent of Bangladesh's garment factories supplying global retailers have been found to be safe, the government said today, citing improvements made after a deadly 2013 accident.
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Inspection Tensions Add to Bangladesh Garment Industry's Woes
It took Western safety inspectors only about an hour to tour a factory the size of three football fields before ordering a partial shutdown of Sonia & Sweaters Ltd, a Bangladesh clothing supplier to Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Debenhams.
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$500 Million World Cup Boost for Bangladesh Garment Makers
Bangladesh garment manufacturers bagged at least $500 million in export orders to sew World Cup jerseys for fans across the globe in a major industry boost after a string of disasters, officials said on Monday.
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Most Bangladesh factory survivors still too sick to work: survey
Most survivors of the Bangladesh factory collapse that killed 1,138 garment workers are still too traumatised or injured to work 12 months after the tragedy, a survey released Monday said.
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Bangladesh government seizes properties of owner of collapsed factory
The Bangladesh government has seized properties belonging to the owner of a building that collapsed and killed 1,138 garment workers, the worst industrial disaster in the country's history, an official said on Thursday.
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Owner of collapsed Bangladesh factory faces murder charges
Bangladesh police said on Tuesday they will press murder charges against the owner of a nine-storey building that collapsed and killed 1,135 garment workers last April, the worst industrial disaster in the country's history.
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Thousands sacked as unsafe Bangladesh factory forced to close
Several thousand Bangladeshi garment workers have lost their jobs after their factory was discovered with serious safety problems and shut down, officials said on Monday.
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Retailers start Bangladesh factory inspections
Safety experts hired by Western retailers on Wednesday launched mass inspections of Bangladesh clothing factories, 10 months after 1,135 garment workers died in a building collapse.
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Fugitive owners of Bangladesh fire-disaster factory sent to jail
Two fugitive owners of a Bangladesh garment factory turned themselves in on Sunday to face homicide charges for the deaths of 112 workers in the country's worst factory fire, a prosecutor said.
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Bangladesh Garment Workers Sacked For Demanding Fair Wages
The South Asian country -- the world's eighth most populous, with about 170 million citizens -- was last month rocked by its worst labour unrest in a decade.
-
150 Bangladesh Garment Factories Shut "Indefinitely", 11,000 Workers Charged
Bangladeshi garment manufacturers on Saturday shuttered 150 factories "indefinitely", as police issued blanket charges for 11,000 workers in connection with violent protests demanding a higher minimum wage, officers said.
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Bangladesh Increases Garment Workers Minimum Pay By 56%: Report
Bangladesh raised the minimum monthly wage for its four million garment workers by 56.25 percent on Tuesday, a decision immediately rejected by unions seeking a near-tripling of the figure.
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Levi's, H&M Stop Production As Bangladesh Labour Protest Intensifies
Levi's and H&M are among the top global clothing brands to suffer production halts in Bangladesh, a garment union leader said Friday, after days of violent protests by workers demanding a near-tripling of their wages.
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Bangladesh Cops, Garment Workers Clash During Protest Over Low Wage
Bangladeshi police clashed on Tuesday with thousands of garment workers demanding fair wages for the clothing they make for major Western brands, a day after similar protests left at least two people dead.
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Japan's Uniqlo Suspends Most Bangladesh Travel, Others Reviewing Operations
Foreign companies with nationals working in Bangladesh's garment and building industries have suspended travel to the country and told workers there to stay at home after a deadly attack by Islamist terrorists on a restaurant in Dhaka on Friday.
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Bangladesh Says 80% of Garment Factories Safe
More than 80 per cent of Bangladesh's garment factories supplying global retailers have been found to be safe, the government said today, citing improvements made after a deadly 2013 accident.
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Inspection Tensions Add to Bangladesh Garment Industry's Woes
It took Western safety inspectors only about an hour to tour a factory the size of three football fields before ordering a partial shutdown of Sonia & Sweaters Ltd, a Bangladesh clothing supplier to Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Debenhams.
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$500 Million World Cup Boost for Bangladesh Garment Makers
Bangladesh garment manufacturers bagged at least $500 million in export orders to sew World Cup jerseys for fans across the globe in a major industry boost after a string of disasters, officials said on Monday.
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Most Bangladesh factory survivors still too sick to work: survey
Most survivors of the Bangladesh factory collapse that killed 1,138 garment workers are still too traumatised or injured to work 12 months after the tragedy, a survey released Monday said.
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Bangladesh government seizes properties of owner of collapsed factory
The Bangladesh government has seized properties belonging to the owner of a building that collapsed and killed 1,138 garment workers, the worst industrial disaster in the country's history, an official said on Thursday.
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Owner of collapsed Bangladesh factory faces murder charges
Bangladesh police said on Tuesday they will press murder charges against the owner of a nine-storey building that collapsed and killed 1,135 garment workers last April, the worst industrial disaster in the country's history.
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Thousands sacked as unsafe Bangladesh factory forced to close
Several thousand Bangladeshi garment workers have lost their jobs after their factory was discovered with serious safety problems and shut down, officials said on Monday.
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Retailers start Bangladesh factory inspections
Safety experts hired by Western retailers on Wednesday launched mass inspections of Bangladesh clothing factories, 10 months after 1,135 garment workers died in a building collapse.
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Fugitive owners of Bangladesh fire-disaster factory sent to jail
Two fugitive owners of a Bangladesh garment factory turned themselves in on Sunday to face homicide charges for the deaths of 112 workers in the country's worst factory fire, a prosecutor said.
