Sweatshops

North London protest: Solidarity with Bangladeshi workers! No more factory deaths!

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Date: 
19 May, 2013 - 12:30 - 14:00
Location: 

Gap, Unit 5, Parkfield Street, London N1 0PS

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Facebook event here.

The death toll from the Rana Plaza factory collapse has now passed 1,100.

Mass mobilisations by Bangladeshi garment workers, supported by international solidarity, has forced many retailers into compensating victims' families and signing the Bangladeshi Fire & Building Safety Agreement. Restrictions on unions' rights to organise have also been relaxed.

But some retailers, including Gap, are refusing to sign the accord. We'll be leafleting and petitioning outside Gap's outlet near Angel station (Unit 5, Parkfield Street, London N1 0PS) to demand they sign the agreement and respect their workers' rights to organise — in their suppliers' factories, and in their stores.

North London protest: Solidarity with Bangladeshi workers! No more factory deaths!

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Date: 
4 May, 2013 - 12:00 - 14:00
Location: 

Primark, 365-371 Mare Street, Hackney, London, E8 1HY

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After the deaths of hundreds of garment workers in Bangladesh, the National Garment Workers' Federation (NGWF) in Bangladesh has launched a campaign and petition. It asks UK high street chains Primark, Mango, and Matalan to commit to forcing their Bangladeshi suppliers to comply with the Bangladesh Fire and Building Safety Agreement.

We demand that the big chains force suppliers to allow trade unions to organise in their factories and to negotiate with workers' own representatives.

**Join us outside Primark in Hackney on Saturday 4 May to support workers in Bangladesh and demand factories and workplaces there and worldwide are made safe. Please also consider calling a protest in your town.**

Facebook event here.

No Sweat dayschool on "Workers and the Olympics"

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Date: 
31 March, 2012 - 11:00 - 17:00
Location: 

Unite HQ, 128 Theobald's Road, Holborn, London

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A dayschool providing:
* an introduction to No Sweat
* discussion about the Olympics and workers' rights, including speakers from the TUC's "Playfair" campaign, and transport workers' union
* planning campaigning activities.
More details: admin@nosweat.org.uk
Free entry; lunch provided
More: http://www.nosweat.org.uk/story/2012/02/23/workers-and-olympics-no-sweat-dayschool-saturday-31-march

Making High Street clothes at 14p an hour

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Stuart Jordan

Between 3 and 11 December the anti-sweatshop campaign, No Sweat, will be touring with members of the National Garment Workers Federation of Bangladesh.

This grassroots union federation has been at the frontline of a recent wave of strikes and riots. Like the shopworkers in this country, the garment workers of Bangladesh have never felt any benefit from the bumper profits made by the high-street giants.

The Beijing Olympics and class struggle

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Paul Hampton

The Olympic spectacular in August this year is likely to be another step on China’s march towards great power status. For sure the media will marvel at the incredible stadia, the clean streets of the capital and the immensity of the country.

So spare a thought for the workers on Beijing’s Olympic construction sites,

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