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20 maja na drodze krajowej 70 w miejscowości Arkadia na motorze zabił się kolejny dwudziestolatek. Z policyjnych ustaleń wynika, że 21-letni kierowca jednośladu (hondy) nie zachował odpowiedniej prędkości i wypadł z zakrętu, po czym uderzył w osobowego passata kierowanego przez 45-letnią kobietę. 21-letni skierniewiczanin zginął na miejscu. Czytaj więcej na następnej stronie straż pożarna Od początku tegoroczne...

Bangladeshi textile workers fear for their safety following the expiry of a successful accord brought in after the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster. Global unions say firms could revert to an old model of self-monitoring.

Share No fewer than 15 unions affiliated to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Kaduna State Council have directed its workers to begin a 5 day warning strike on Monday. This was even as they call on the workers to disregard the government’s circular against the warning strike. State Secretary of the NLC Kaduna council, Comrade Christiana John Bawa disclosed in a press statement distributed to journalists in Kaduna on Saturday . However, in reacting to the impending strike, the state government...

How are textile workers in Bangladesh faring who are unable to socially distance in their factories? We also hear how clean cooking stoves can help reduce the risk of lung diseases in Guatemala's poorer neighborhoods — that's more important than ever during the coronavirus pandemic.

World in Progress: How are textile workers in Bangladesh faring during the pandemic? Bangladesh has detected its first cases of the Indian coronavirus variant. Just about two percent of the Bangladeshi population of around 160 million are fully vaccinated. A lockdown has been extended until May 16. However, work in textile factories continues. For some workers thats good as it means theyll get a paycheck. Others are worried, because they cant safely distance. Listen to audio 04:30 Share

Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers president, clarifies comments that drew allegations of antisemitism.

In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit ‘record’. The 22-year-old shot a video of the giant black-and-red ‘Everything Must Go!’ posters and posted it on TikTok in October. “Slowly losing my job,” she wrote below, days before the store in Delano, California, shut for good, one of 156 J.C. Penneys across the United States to close since June of this year. Since being laid off, she’s applied for a couple...

Pandemic crushes workers at both ends of the global supply chain The collapse of the global garment trade has wreaked havoc for millions of workers, the vast majority of them women. In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot a video of the giant black-and-red “Everything Must go!” posters and posted it on TikTok in October. “Slowing losing my job,” she wrote below, days before the s...

The Fuller Project In her last weeks working the freight shift at the local J.C. Penney store, Alexandra Orozco took out her phone and hit record. The 22-year-old shot a video of the giant black-and-red ‘Everything Must go!” posters, and posted it on TikTok in October. “Slowing losing my job,” she wrote below, days before the store in Delano, California shut for good, one of 156 J.C. Penneys across the United States to close since June of this year. Since being laid off, she’s appli...

Pandemic crushes global supply chains, workers at both ends by Louise Donovan/The Fuller Project, The Associated Press Posted Dec 22, 2020 10:09 am EDT Last Updated Dec 22, 2020 at 10:14 am EDT Alexandra Orozco stands for a portrait outside of the closed J.C. Penney where she was laid off from, in Delano, Calif., on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020. Orozco began working part-time at the department store when she was 18, and in nearly four years rose through the ranks from cashier to freight team associate....