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Debunked: 10 of the Most Common Excuses for Not Paying a Living Wage
Fast fashion companies have plenty of excuses for not paying workers a fair living wage. Consumers don’t want to pay more for clothes, they argue, and they insist that they’re helping create jobs for...
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Paramilitary Troops Squash Garment Worker Protests In Bangladesh
Five months after the Rana Plaza factory complex collapsed, killing 1,129 people, and drawing attention to unsafe working conditions that permeate the international fashion industry, Bangladeshi...
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Switzerland Considers Providing All Citizens with a Guaranteed Wage or...
While the battle continues in the US for a slightly higher minimum wage, the Swiss are exploring drastic methods to create a fair economy. One possible method includes a guaranteed 2,500 franc income...
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Fast Fashion Retailers Agree to Raise Minimum Wage for Cambodian Garment Makers
Eight fast fashion retail giants, including H&M, New Look, Next, and Zara’s parent company Inditex, have agreed to increase the minimum wage for their garment makers in Cambodia . Thousands of...
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Federal investigation find rampant sweatshop labor in L.A. factories
If you’ve been buying US-made clothes in order to avoid funding sweatshop labor, we have bad news for you. The Department of Labor announced earlier in November that a massive investigation of 77...
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