TELL GILDAN: STOP THE BEATING OF WORKERS WHO MAKE YOUR T-SHIRTS! Garment workers in Haiti are among the lowest paid and most oppressed in the world. The garments they produce are for export, for companies such as Walmart, Hanes, and Gildan. In October 2012, the minimum wage rose to 300 Goud ($7.06 US) per day. [...]
(This is a translation of a statement being circulated in Bangladesh). Hundreds of workers working at Toba Groups’ Tazreen Fashions Limited in Nischintapur, Ashulia in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, died at the devastating fire, one of the most horrible in recent times, on Nov 24. Government and mass media have claimed 130 deaths at [...]
Charred human beings, mostly women, unrecognizable, burned to death behind locked doors. When alarms sounded, the bosses yelled that nothing was wrong. "Go back to work," they said. Outrage does not begin to encapsulate the reaction to the horrific deaths of garment workers in the Walmart-contracted Tazreen Fashions Ltd. Factory fire. One Struggle mourns the [...]
An Insider Exposes Garment Industry Practices by Designer X With barely a year or so under my belt as a clothing designer, after graduating from one of the most famous Fashion Design universities in the world, I said something like this to my dad: “Dad, I feel guilty. I’ve learned since graduation that the people [...]
“Walmart doesn’t destroy small businesses, capitalism does.” The title quote is from an article by Pablo Babanegra of Miami Autonomy and Solidarity. It sums up problems within local movements fighting the entrance of Walmart into their communities, and focuses on the construction of the Walmart Super Center in Midtown Miami (which has met intense opposition [...]
By Doug Enaa Greene “Let’s not change bosses, let’s change life.” -May 1968 One of the constants of election year 2012, aside from nearly identical parties, is the focus on jobs. Whether it is Obama’s latest stimulus or Romney’s promise to “unleash the entrepreneurial spirit of America,” both candidates claim they want to create jobs. [...]
Following is a conversation between Anu Muhammad (an organizer with the National Committee in Bangladesh, which works against resource extraction and imperialism), two members of One Struggle (Daniel and Stephanie McMillan), plus Irtishad Ahmad and Swapan Majhi. It took place at FIU (Miami), in October 2012. Anu Muhammad: Tell me about your organization. Stephanie McMillan: [...]