Garment Workers

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A three-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Karnataka's Bengaluru on Tuesday. The victim was the child of a single mother, a worker at a garments factory, who has been in a relationship with the accused for over a year.

It is a steep price for a workforce that was already juggling low pay and poor conditions before the pandemic shuttered their factories and choked orders.

Millions of "hidden" home-based garment workers in India who help prop up the global fashion industry risk missing out on aid during the coronavirus pandemic, labour rights campaigners said.

Garment workers in south India are to receive counselling to help them cope with problems from work pressure to sexual harassment after a series of deaths in factories and hostels, a local official said on Wednesday.

Chennai: The agenda was to improve the conditions for tens of thousands of women garment workers who stitch everything from jeans to jackets for the world’s leading fashion brands. But the strategy was flawed, say critics. The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) aimed to gain access to often highly restricted factories in the textile centre of Tami...

Mumbai: It was a childhood memory of time spent at his grandfather’s textile mill in Gujarat that inspired film student Rahul Jain to focus on the rhythm of factory life for his first documentary. Although Mr Jain did not set out to make a political film, his award-winning feature “Machines” is attracting international attention for its depic...

By Anuradha Nagaraj Chennai: A proposed new township for garment industry workers in textile hub of Tirupur in Tamil Nadu will tackle the problem of exploitation of workers housed in hostels on factory sites, campaigners said on Monday. In a first, the Tirupur Exporters’ Association, a trade body, has asked the Indian government to give the go-a...

By Anuradha Nagaraj Chennai: A fish tank with expensive Arowana fish is prominently displayed in many factories making hosiery in the southern textile hub of Tirupur – the owners believe it will bring them wealth. But any prosperity is limited to factory owners. Few profits trickle down to the tens of thousands of workers they employ, says filmm...

Truth vs Hype investigation into India's booming garment industry found women workers saying that sexual propositioning was a common aspect of their work environment and that they are 'tutored' to keep it under wraps or lose their jobs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A three-year-old girl was raped and murdered in Karnataka's Bengaluru on Tuesday. The victim was the child of a single mother, a worker at a garments factory, who has been in a relationship with the accused for over a year.

It is a steep price for a workforce that was already juggling low pay and poor conditions before the pandemic shuttered their factories and choked orders.

Millions of "hidden" home-based garment workers in India who help prop up the global fashion industry risk missing out on aid during the coronavirus pandemic, labour rights campaigners said.

Garment workers in south India are to receive counselling to help them cope with problems from work pressure to sexual harassment after a series of deaths in factories and hostels, a local official said on Wednesday.

Chennai: The agenda was to improve the conditions for tens of thousands of women garment workers who stitch everything from jeans to jackets for the world’s leading fashion brands. But the strategy was flawed, say critics. The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) aimed to gain access to often highly restricted factories in the textile centre of Tami...

Mumbai: It was a childhood memory of time spent at his grandfather’s textile mill in Gujarat that inspired film student Rahul Jain to focus on the rhythm of factory life for his first documentary. Although Mr Jain did not set out to make a political film, his award-winning feature “Machines” is attracting international attention for its depic...

By Anuradha Nagaraj Chennai: A proposed new township for garment industry workers in textile hub of Tirupur in Tamil Nadu will tackle the problem of exploitation of workers housed in hostels on factory sites, campaigners said on Monday. In a first, the Tirupur Exporters’ Association, a trade body, has asked the Indian government to give the go-a...

By Anuradha Nagaraj Chennai: A fish tank with expensive Arowana fish is prominently displayed in many factories making hosiery in the southern textile hub of Tirupur – the owners believe it will bring them wealth. But any prosperity is limited to factory owners. Few profits trickle down to the tens of thousands of workers they employ, says filmm...

Truth vs Hype investigation into India's booming garment industry found women workers saying that sexual propositioning was a common aspect of their work environment and that they are 'tutored' to keep it under wraps or lose their jobs.

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.