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Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
24 May 2021Op-Ed
by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu
24 May 2021|by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu
COVID-19 worsened the textile waste crisis. Now, it s time for the fashion industry to address this spiraling problem, say
Geoffrey Jones and
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful.
Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of fabric waste getting landfilled or burned every second, according to a 2017 report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Event brings together students, alumni to discuss workers’ rights
The School of Labor and Employment Relations welcomed back two alumni of the Labor and Global Workers’ Rights program Bashiratu Kamal (bottom right) and Jafar Iqbal (top left) as keynote speakers for the school’s annual Alumni/Student Forum. Also pictured are Mark Anner, LGWR founding director (top right), and Manuel Rosaldo, LGWR faculty and event facilitator (bottom left).
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Event brings together students, alumni to discuss workers’ rights
May 13, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Every spring, students, faculty and alumni from the School of Labor and Employment Relations (LER) meet to network and discuss current issues in the fields of labor, employment relations and human resources. The popular alumni/student forum is sponsored by the School of LER’s Alumni Board of Directors.
Mainstreaming human rights in business to protect workers’ rights
A study led by the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) revealed that more than 3,50,000 workers in the RMG sector have lost their jobs during Covid-19 pandemic while most of the workers have been laid off without proper compensation. A staggering official record is of 56372 workers being laid off. The report also finds that the high rate of retrenchment was occurred in small factories amounting to over 10% of total work force.
According to Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA), at least 70,000 workers have been terminated in garment factories since April 2020. As per Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation, 150,000 workers have already lost their jobs and termination occurs every day. The Penn State Center for Global Workers Rights has found that more than a million Bangladeshi apparel workers got laid off while 72.4% of them were sent home without pay.
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