Category: General

05 NOV

Textile exhibition

Textile exhibition
Hindu, India

Staff Reporter
COIMBATORE: The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry and the Integrated Database India Limited will organise ‘Tex Trade Today’, a textile exhibition, on January 19 and 20, next.

The exhibition, to be held in Bangalore, will have two sessions – B to B and B to C. The former session is for yarn and fabric manufacturers and will have garment and home textile manufacturers as visitors. The latter session will have the garment and home textile manufacturers as the exhibitors and consumers as visitors. Read more about Textile exhibition …

03 NOV

Tudela recommends $1K fee for garment workers

Tudela recommends $1K fee for garment workers
Saipan Tribune, Micronesia
By Agnes Donato
Reporter

Saipan Mayor Juan B. Tudela wants garment companies to pay more for employing nonresident workers who are excluded from the minimum wage hike plan that is pending in the Legislature.

House Bill 15-166, authored by Rep. Joseph Deleon Guerrero, seeks to gradually raise the minimum wage to $5.25 per hour with the exception of sewers or cutters employed in the garment industry. Read more about Tudela recommends $1K fee for garment workers …

02 NOV

India child garment workers found

India child garment workers found
BBC News, UK

About 70 child workers in India have been discovered working in a Delhi textile factory, officials say.
They say that the boys were embroidering saris and wedding clothes in a sweatshop when police and activists swooped to rescue them.

Officials say it is the third such raid made this week, following a report on Sunday in a British newspaper on child labour in Delhi.

The boys are reported to be between eight and 14 years old. Read more about India child garment workers found …

02 NOV

UK small caps rally to close firmer, Thomas Walker jumps on upbeat results

UK small caps rally to close firmer, Thomas Walker jumps on upbeat results
Life Style Extra, UK

LONDON (AFX) – UK small caps managed to close higher, reversing early losses, thanks to a largely positive set of corporate announcements and a firmer broader market, dealers said.

The FTSE Small Cap index closed 3.6 points higher at 3,640.30, while the FTSE 100 index was up 20.4 points at 6,149.6. Read more about UK small caps rally to close firmer, Thomas Walker jumps on upbeat results …

01 NOV

Vietnam quotas for garment export to US to be revamped

Vietnam quotas for garment export to US to be revamped
Thanh Nien Daily, Vietnam

The move followed a meeting last week between the ministry and southern clothing companies to discuss problems of mismatch between export contracts and quotas which was causing Vietnamese firms to lose business.

The ministry follows automatic visa allocation for 25 categories of textiles. Now, they will be issued only for 40 percent of quotas in each category, instead of 70 percent as done earlier Read more about Vietnam quotas for garment export to US to be revamped …

01 NOV

Mexico: 50 workers lose their jobs in garment factory due to union organising drive

Mexico: 50 workers lose their jobs in garment factory due to union organising drive
libcom.org, UK

Over 50 employees of a garment factory in Tehaucán, Puebla have been sacked for their affiliation with rival trade unions and non-governmental organisations.
The workers had been organising against the interference of the Puebla state government by way of the FROC-CROC union’s presence in the Grupo Navarra factory, which makes clothes for Abercombie & Fitch, Gap, Levi and Calvin Klein, amongst others. FROC-CROC is affiliated to the PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institutional) political party, which runs the state government. The two bodies have been colluding against worker’s organisation, psychologically and physically harassing workers, withholding wages and union-busting. Read more about Mexico: 50 workers lose their jobs in garment factory due to union organising drive …