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Within the past few months, the Bangladeshi garment workers have become involved in a struggle to earn better working conditions and a minimum wage that does not leave them destitute. The National Labor Committee's Bangladeshi Garment Worker campaign spotlights these struggles, and the things we can do to help the workers.
Shipbreaking (taking apart huge decommissioned ships) is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world; and yet, for tens of thousands of workers in Bangladesh, it is a job that pays a wage too small to live of off, and with almost no safety precautions to battle the inherent risks of the job.
More than 2,000 men, women and children in India have died miserable deaths due to silicosis, while polishing gemstones for export to the U.S. and Europe.
China's factory model over the last 20 years-of grueling hours, seven-day workweeks, below-subsistence wages, prison-like discipline, primitive living conditions and zero rights-may be cracking; the All China Federation of Trade Unions is now openly being discussed as a shill for the government.
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Support Workers Striking Honda in China. Workers strike to win $1.34 an hour wage -and respect.
Tell Wal-Mart and the other major apparel companies that we want them to support the 43-cent-an-hour minimum wage.
Please send a letter to the companies and ask them to respect the workers demands.
Help save the lives of workers in India—including the children—who make the agate and gemstone jewelry we purchase.
Look through our selection of reports, posters, videos, photos and other items. Each item you buy helps us to continue our work.
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).
Guatemalan factory, Alianza Fashion, robs workers' health care and pension payments while undermining government's social security institute.
Nygard, Dillard's, J.C. Penney, Wal-Mart Linked to Human Trafficking and Abuse of Young Women in Jordan Sweatshop
Chinese teenagers toil excessive hours for poverty wages as they manufacture the Microsoft peripherals we use.
The Race to the Bottom in the Auto Industry
