Apparel Workers News Today

Why crack down on workers who are demanding their dues?

Green and social regulation is coming for the apparel industry–and that's a good thing.

Abrasive. >> we have a new -- a new -- [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: the crowd is chanting the same chants we heard two years ago during the revolution. the industry apparel brand in the u.s. have been warned again and again about the extreme dangers to apparel workers in bangladesh and yet they have not taken action. >> i was blown away that at the heart of this hunt was this young woman who had a kind of tenacity and dedication and a courage. she would never say no. im on "two and a half ...

Huge garment factory building. there were no exterior fire escapes according to officials, and many died after jumping from upper floors to escape the fires. as firemen continued to remove bodies, officials said at least 112 people had died, but that the number of fatalities could go higher. it all adds to the shameful record as previously reported by abc news of more than 600 garment factory fire deaths in bangladesh over the last five years. a place of the cheapest labor in the world and some ...