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The Maquila Solidarity Network, the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers' Federation (ITGLWF) have regularly called attention to the need for structural measures to end the consistent and ongoing worker rights violations in the Bangladeshi garment industry.
Precarious work, and in particular the abuse of short term contracts and employment agencies, is recognized as a growing problem in the garment industry world-wide, and one that is increasing workers' vulnerability and limiting the exercise of freedom of association. MSN is working with national, regional and international counterparts to address this dangerous shift toward precarious work and the negative consequences for workers and their communities.
Highlights of MSN's campaign work from our 2010 Annual Report
MSN is working with Mexican and international stakeholders to tackle widespread systemic barriers to workers' rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining in Mexico and the failure of Mexican government institutions to protect and enforce this fundamental right at the workplace.
Since the June 28, 2009 coup which ousted the democratically-elected President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, MSN has been closely monitoring the ongoing developments. Below you will find postings which document the continuing repression as well as the broad-based civil society resistance and other efforts to condemn the rights violations. You will also find a listing of key documents and groups working on the ground and internationally towards the restoration of democracy and the end to repression.
The multi-billion dollar sportswear industry is plagued by worker rights violations against what are mainly poor women workers in Asia and Latin America. In the report "Clearing the Hurdles: Steps to Improving Wages and Working Conditions in the Global Sportswear Industry" MSN identified four central hurdles that need to be overcome by the industry to make real progress on worker rights violations. These hurdles include a lack of respect for freedom of association as well as the poverty wages prevalent in the industry.
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