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Fire and Building Safety in Rmg Sector: Brands yet to agree to renew accord It expires May 31 Staff correspondent Staff correspondent Although the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh is set to expire on May 31, no brand has yet agreed to re-sign the agreement. Speakers from Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC), IndustriALL and Worker Rights Consortium stated this at a press briefing, titled "Protect Progress: The Bangladesh Accord and Garment Worker Safety Under Threat", organised virtually yesterday, slamming the brands for not renewing the accord. The current agreement -- which has l...

By Naimul Karim DHAKA, April 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Labour activists on Thursday urged brands to extend a factory safety deal in Bangladesh ahead of the eighth anniversary of the Rana Plaza disaster, in which some 1,100 workers died. The collapse of the eight-storey building near Dhaka - the industry's deadliest accident - on April 24, 2013 led some 200 brands, including H&M and Zara, to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh. That agreement expires on May 31. Labour leaders want the Accord to be renewed in Bangladesh, the world's second-largest exporter of garme...

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As Brands Recover From Pandemic, Factory Workers Remain Unpaid Women's Wear Daily (WWD) 3/12/2021 Kali Hays When the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. last year, major brands scrambled to cancel some $40 billion worth of orders of apparel from overseas factories. But as many of the same brands recover financially, the workers who make their products are not sharing in the comeback. Over only three months last year, March through May, millions of workers, nearly all women, employed by international apparel factories did not receive between $3 billion and $5 billion in estimat...

4 Min Read BANGKOK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Garment workers in Thailand who were illegally underpaid while making products for major brands have received all the wages owed to them after theme park operator and film producer Universal Studios agreed to pay the outstanding amount. Universal Studios, owned by media giant Comcast Corp’s NBCUniversal, agreed to give $20,000 to a group of Myanmar workers on Wednesday - following three other global brands in making payments to settle the 3.5 million baht ($116,550) owed in unpaid wages. “We take this matter very seriously and this is not ...