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Bangladesh Opens First Textile Technology Center, Moves Toward Sustainable Production
In its effort to improve its readymade garment sector, Bangladesh has opened its first Textile Technology…
Accord, Alliance in Bangladesh to Accept Each Other’s Inspections; Factory Owners Relieved
Factory safety reform in Bangladesh has come only in fits and starts, and many attribute the slow crawl…
BGMEA Signs Agreement With Impactt to Improve Productivity
The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has signed an agreement with ethical…
Bangladesh Wage Drama Continues: Were Labor Unions Bribed?
The Bangladesh government is set to enact an eagerly anticipated revision of the minimum wage for garment…
Bangladesh on Fire: Angry Workers Torch One of Nation’s Largest Factories
Violence continues to consume Bangladesh as another fire engulfed a garments factory on November 29…
Apparel Makers Plea for Security in Increasingly Violent Bangladesh
Western apparel makers have come under critical fire lately for factory safety issues in Bangladesh. However…
Exclusive Interview: Kalpona Akter, Executive Director of Bangladesh Center For Worker Solidarity
The tragedies and strife that befell Bangladesh’s ready-made garment (RMG) sector over the past year have…
Breaking News: Gazipur Engulfed by Violence; 20 Garment Factories Riot
Even after the Bangladesh Ministry of Labor officially signed off on the new minimum wage…
Finally, Bangladesh Govt Sets New Minimum Wage
After months of contentious wrangling between factory owners and workers, Bangladesh’s government has finally…
Breaking News: Bangladesh Factory Owners Agree to New Minimum Wage
Moving one step closer to a historic resolution regarding the hotly contested minimum wage, Bangladeshi…
Breaking News: Bangladesh Riots Turn Deadly
Bangladesh has been roiled by violence as garment workers continue to angrily protest a government board’s…
Eighty Bangladeshi Factories Close in Fear of Protests; Wage Board Recommendation Settles Nothing
Even after Bangladesh’s specially convened Wage Board has come to a resolution, the often tempestuous dispute…
Bangladesh Wage Board Finally Makes Recommendation; Gazipur Overrun By Violent Protests
After months of tense disputes often mottled by violence, garment factory workers and factory owners have…
Bangladesh Minimum Wage Dispute Finally Nears Resolution
After repeatedly halted negotiations, workers and factory owners in Bangladesh seem to be finally…
Breaking News: Bangladesh Factory Manager Taken Hostage By Workers
Hopes that recent concessions by factory owners would quell cascading violence in Bangladesh over a…