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Why is Wal-Mart blocking 35 cents an hour for Bangladeshi workers?

July 28, 2010

Garment workers in Bangladesh produce clothing for Wal-Mart in exchange for wages that keep them in poverty; let Wal-Mart know that these workers deserve their modest demand of a 35-cent-an-hour minimum wage, not one cent less!

Call or write the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) to confront the board members about the condtions in the Jabil factory!

June 30, 2010

Support Workers Striking Honda in China

June 17, 2010

Support Workers Striking Honda in China. Workers strike to win $1.34 an hour wage -and respect.

Testimony of a Bangladeshi Garment Worker

June 15, 2010

A young female Bangladeshi garment work discusses her life on a starvation wage.

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Tech factory like working at a "prison"

PC Pro  |  July 5, 2010

US-owned Jabil factory in China is run like minimum security prison

Good Electronics  |  July 2, 2010

Chinese factory supplying HP, IBM and Cisco has 'cruel and inhuman' conditions

Computer Weekly  |  July 2, 2010

Jabil sends managers to China factory to check worker conditions cited in labor rights report

St. Petersburg Times  |  July 1, 2010

A workers rights group that 14 years ago outed celebrity Kathie Lee Gifford for allowing her clothing line to be made in Central American sweatshops is now targeting St. Petersburg electronics manufacturer Jabil Circuit for worker abuse at one of its many factories in China.

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Support Workers Striking Honda in China. Workers strike to win $1.34 an hour wage -and respect.

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Tell Wal-Mart and the other major apparel companies that we want them to support the 43-cent-an-hour minimum wage.

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U.S.-Owned High Tech Jabil Factory in China Runs Like Minimum Security Prison Producing for Whirlpool, GE, HP

The Jabil Circuit factory in Guangzhou, China has over 6,000 workers-many of them illegal temporary workers.These workers produce for hi-tech products-all of whom are board members of the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC).

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Illegal Firings and Death Threats at Guatemala Factory Producing for Briggs New York

Guatemalan factory, Alianza Fashion, robs workers' health care and pension payments while undermining government's social security institute.

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Dirty Clothes

Nygard, Dillard's, J.C. Penney, Wal-Mart Linked to Human Trafficking and Abuse of Young Women in Jordan Sweatshop

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China's Youth Meet Microsoft

Chinese teenagers toil excessive hours for poverty wages as they manufacture the Microsoft peripherals we use.

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The Toyota You Don't Know

The Race to the Bottom in the Auto Industry

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