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AUS: Fashion labels "exploiting workers in sweatshop conditions"
2014-06-05 18:56:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A textile, apparel and footwear union is accusing a number of leading fashion labels of failing to meet minimum legal standards for workers in the clothing industry.
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US: Sweatshop workers awarded US$1.2m damages
2014-05-23 14:21:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Garment workers toiling in "sweatshop" conditions in Manhattan have been awarded more than US$1.2m in damages for unpaid wages by a federal judge.
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Consumers not to blame for sweatshop wages
2013-09-24 08:57:26| Logistics - Topix.net
Hong Kong-based business executive Bruce Rockowitz told the New York Times recently that consumers are ultimately the ones responsible for dangerous conditions in garment assembly plants in the global South.
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Chasing costs, a 'sweatshop locator'
2013-08-08 15:37:45| Logistics - Topix.net
Li & Fung - the most important company that most U.S. shoppers have never heard of - has long been on the cutting edge of globalization, chasing cheap labor to garment factories first in China, then elsewhere in Asia, including Bangladesh.
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4/25 SF Protest To End Sweatshop Death Traps At SF Gap Headquarters
2013-04-20 11:17:19| Apparel - Topix.net
112 workers died in a recent fire at a Walmart supplier and 29 workers died at a Gap supplier, but Gap and Walmart are still refusing to pay for reforms and join with other companies in a binding fire safety agreement that includes independent inspections and worker representation.
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