Exclusive: Upmarket brand that recently launched partnership with UN Foundation opens investigation as women in Bangladesh factory say they suffer regular abuse Lululemon, an athleisure brand whose £88 leggings are worn by celebrities and Instagram …
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In 2016, when she was 16, Brittany Hoyos started her first job, at a busy McDonald’s in Tucson. Not long after, she said, a manager began harassing her, touching her hair, texting her about her …
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Last week, after Yumi Ishikawa’s petition against being forced to wear high heels at work went viral around the world, responses ranged from solidarity – with some cheering Ishikawa and denouncing “modern footbinding” – to surprised disappointment. …
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GENEVA/ZURICH — Hundreds of thousands of women across Switzerland held a strike on Friday to highlight their wealthy nation’s poor record on female rights, recreating the passion of the last such walkout 28 years ago. …
Continue reading »The Chinese Working Women Network (CWWN) is a non-governmental organization with the mission to promote better lives for Chinese migrant women workers by developing feminist awareness and workers’ empowerment. Our core members are labor organizers, …
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By an incomplete tally, to date 50 people have died in the Daozi village of Leiyang, Hunan. If we include the whole of the Leiyang Municipality, that number is 55. Since the late 1980s, young people from Daozi village have migrated south to work, filled with dreams. In the booming city of Shenzhen, they worked the most lucrative job on the construction site—in drilling and blasting. Ten or more years later, these workers are have been collectively diagnosed with silicosis, and death for them is fast approaching.
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The afternoon of May 8, silicosis-afflicted workers from Leiyang demanding their rights at Shenzhen’s Petition Office were violently suppressed by the government. Six workers were taken into police custody and not released until around 12pm. Not only did this not scare workers, it angered them further, strengthening their morale!
Workers wrote a demand letter and affixed their signatures and fingerprints.
On 8 May, workers from Leiyang suffering from silicosis went again to the Shenzhen Municipal Petition Office. To their surprise, police were waiting there to arrest them.
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