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Unions set May 16 as deadline to withdraw cases
Edit The Hindu 30 Apr 2016
... has set May 16 as the deadline for the police to withdraw all cases against garment workers....
Textile workers to take out rally on Sunday
Edit The Times of India 30 Apr 2016
Children of the garment works will also perform street play to make people aware about girl child, cleanliness and environment....
Over 200 garment workers still awaiting bail
Edit The Hindu 30 Apr 2016
The untold story of the recent protests by garment workers against the now rolled back Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) rules is that over 200 workers arrested are still languishing in jail without bail ... Jayaram of the Garments and Textile Workers’ Union, visited Parappana Agrahara Central Prison on Thursday and met over 30 workers, who were picked up from their factories and booked under attempt to murder charge....
City likely to face water shortage
Edit Deccan Herald 30 Apr 2016
Supply would be rationed as per need. The Delhiites could face a water shortage in the coming summer months of May and June ... The government, while releasing its 'summer action plan' on Tuesday, had said that the DJB has identified additional water sources and 12 new tubewells would be installed at Palla which would increase the supply of raw water there from current 20 MGD to 35 MGD. Also, 60 tubewells would come up across the city ... ....
CM hopes Raymond unit brings prosperity to region
Edit The Times of India 30 Apr 2016
Laying the foundation stone of a multi-speciality textile and garment manufacturing unit of Raymond here at the Nandgoanpeth industrial estate on Saturday, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis hoped it was the first step towards transforming the region from suicide epicentre to island of prosperity....
[Opinion] EU should call out Bangladesh on workers' rights
Edit Topix 30 Apr 2016
In April 2015, Cecilia Malmstroem, the European Union's trade commissioner, made a compelling speech calling for respect for garment workers' rights in Bangladesh in remembrance of the catastrophic collapse of the Rana Plaza factory, in which 1,100 workers died [in 2013] ... ....
Putting the fun back in baseball, as if it ever lost it
Edit Chicago Tribune 30 Apr 2016
It has come to my attention baseball needs to be made fun again, and, I'll be honest, I don't know when it was not. But would truckers' caps and T-shirts lie about a thing like that?. I mean, next to tweets and bumper stickers, present day communication is found on such caps and garments, so when... ....
Sweatshop art: Berlin artists join production line in capitalist protest
Edit The Guardian 30 Apr 2016
This three day art project – part of Gallery Weekend Berlin – coincides with the three-year anniversary of the deadliest garment-factory accident in history, the Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh, when a building collapse killed 1,130 people and injured 2,500 ... The base value of a single painting in Sweat Shop is more than the average Bangladesh garment worker makes in a month Andrea Alessi....
Come in, spinner. Taxpayers to fork out for $300,000 a year spin doctor
Edit Sydney Morning Herald 30 Apr 2016
The ink on Tim Pallas' budget papers was barely dry when ads went online for a "director of strategic communications" for the newly created Level Crossing Removal Authority (LXRA). It seems the LXRA is in desperate need of a highly paid spinner, PR guru, communications expert and/or reputation ......
Textile sector seeks government support to boost exports
Edit Deccan Herald 30 Apr 2016
Total exports of textiles and clothing in 2015-16 stood at $40 billion ... The country’s total exports of textiles and clothing in 2015-16 stood at $40 billion as against $41.4 billion in 2014-15, a decline of 3.4% ... This has happened entirely due to the duty free access given to Pakistan, while Indian exporters were paying a duty of 9.6% for made-ups and garments and 6.5-8% for fabric items, the statement said ... ....
Fire at factory unit, workers have narrow escape
Edit The Times of India 30 Apr 2016
Ludhiana. A fire broke out at a Knitwear unit on Bahadurke Road on Saturday morning. Ten employees of the factory who were stuck on the second floor had a narrow escape, as a ladder had to be used as a bridge from an adjacent building to rescue them ... The fire broke out at around 9am ... To escape, the employees had break windows to drain out the smoke ... Another fire incident was reported from a garments shop in Chaura Bazar in the afternoon ... ....
The credit for keeping us all together goes to Jo: Suriya
Edit The Times of India 30 Apr 2016
He may have looked menacing and formidable in his tough-cop act in the Singam franchise, but to expect Suriya to traverse the realm of evil does stretch the imagination a bit. But here he is, in his latest offering 24 (releasing this Friday), all set to play the villain... Listen in... Tell us who... I was working as a garment merchandiser, and earning about 8k a month. But in the early 20s, the entire garment industry was in decline ... ....
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