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Maquila Solidarity Update is published three times a year in English and Spanish. Our 8-page newsletter provides news, analysis and interviews on the struggle to uphold international labour rights in a globalized economy.
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In this issue:
Myth of Mexican workers stealing our jobs debunked; DR-CAFTA labour projects 'valid, but insufficient”; Pressure builds to end forced child labour in Uzbek cotton fields; Crisis presents opportunity for worker organizing in the Philippines; Cornered Russell lashes out at labour critics; Chong Won and Phils Jeon factory workers forced into hiding; Johnson Controls fails to act on worker complaints.
Download Update 14.2 here.
In this issue:
Bangladeshi workers and labour rights advocates arrested under emergency laws; Factory investigation confirms Catholic students’ sweatshop fears; Play Fair activists set targets for better working conditions by next Olympic Games.
Also: Vaqueros Navarra workers fight blacklisting, struggle for severance pay; 45 hour student sit-in wins No Sweat licensing policy at York University; Montreal garment workers fight factory closure; Cambodian union enters fifth month on strike; Ontario First Nations leaders jailed for peaceful protest.
Download Update 13.2 here.
In this issue:
Grupo Navarra closes factory to punish workers for joining union; New initiatives in El Salvador for former Hermosa workers; Burger King rejects a living wage mechanism; Legal action in Indian courts; WRC clarifies apparel company's record; Savage attack of worker advocate in China; Union members reinstated in Honduras.
Download Update 13.1 here.
In this issue:
Denim workers fight for democratic union; Gildan makes good on promises to laid-off Mexican workers; Will Hermosa workers achieve justice?; No medal for the Olympics on Labour Rights; Ontario school boards collaborate to enforce No Sweat policies; Brands speak out on violence against Chong Won strikers.
Download Update Vol. 12.2 here.
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