April 19, 2012

In this issue:

1. Controversy surrounds Foxconn investigation
2. A groundbreaking deal opens Bangladeshi garment factories to safety inspections
3. Auto parts company admits signing a protection contract to keep out an independent union
4. Despite record profits, Johnson Controls to close unionized factory
5. Mass faintings: A Cambodian tribunal examines the effects of poverty wages on garment workers
6. Precarious work: A growing campaign to change the law on short-term contracts in Peru
7. Bangladeshi labour organizer murdered

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