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Indefinite strike called in garments factories

Tuba Group Sramik Sangram Committee has called an indefinite strike in the garment factories across the country starting Thursday.

The strike was called after the agitating workers were evicted from the factory at North Badda in the capital this afternoon. The law enforcers stormed the premises around 1:00 pm and  lobbed tear gas canisters and charged batons on the agitating  workers.

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GIZ, EU complete four years of collaboration in Bangladesh

The German Development Cooperation (GIZ) and the European Union (EU) have completed four years of their collaboration for improving labour standards in Bangladesh’s readymade garment (RMG) industry. An event to mark the completion of four years was organized in Dhaka by the ‘Promotion of Social and Environmental Standards in Industry’ (PSES). GIZPSES project has been commissioned for five years from 2010 to 2015 by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), with Bangladesh’s Ministry of Commerce being the leading exec...

Calls for more textile transparency

German Green Party politician, Renat Künast, called for a European transparency directive during a discussion on environmental and social textile standards at the recent Ethical Fashion Show Berlin. berlin showKünast claimed the tide is turning in fashion as green fashion becomes more mainstream. “You can see this is no longer a niche but an important market – increasingly so and, for topical reasons, becoming more political”, said Künast of Germany’s green party, ‘Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen’.

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Govt releases Tk 8.75b subsidy on RMG exports

Following a request of readymade garment (RMG) exporters for disbursement of cash subsidy by July 10 to enable them to pay the workers’ salary ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, the Government of Bangladesh has released an amount of Tk8.75 billion, most of which is for the garment and jute sectors, reports Dhaka Tribune. The amount disbursed by the Ministry of Finance against exports made during the fourth quarter of 2014 includes Tk7.34 billion for RMG and Tk1.37 billion for jute and jute goods. rmgThe disbursement of the five percent cash subsidy was made in acc...

EU releases ‘Technical Progress Report’ on Bangladesh RMG

The European Union has released a ‘Technical Progress Report’ on Bangladesh readymade garment (RMG) sector titled “Staying Engaged - A Sustainability Compact for continuous improvements in labour rights and factory safety in the Ready-Made Garment and Knitwear Industry in Bangladesh”. LOGO CE_Vertical_EN_quadriThe report has been released exactly a year after the EU took action through a Sustainability Compact, in response to the tragic loss of life when the Rana Plaza complex collapsed, to promote better labour rights and more responsible supply chain management i...

Bangladesh lacks push India’s textile exports to US up

India’s textile and garment exports to the US are up a sharp 6 per cent in the first four months of 2014, the growth being largely attributed to a dip in shipments from Bangladesh in the wake of heightened safety compliance from global buyers after last year’s tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory building in Dhaka. While a slowdown in Chinese supplies is a factor that has continued to help India as well as Vietnam in claiming the top two slots in terms of the rate of growth in shipments to the US, this has been at the cost of a perceptible dip in the export growth of Bangladesh — a very strong player in the garments segment — during the period (-0.21 per cent).
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