US Brands Still Holding Out as Bangladesh Government Looks to ...

American retailers remain sharply opposed to joining an international plan to improve safety conditions at garment factories in Bangladesh as their European counterparts and consumer and labor groups dismiss the companies concerns about legal ...

Walmart, along with 13 other major North American companies, refused to sign a legally binding agreement to improve working conditions for overseas factory workers that manufacture their clothes after a garment factory collapsed in Bangladesh ...

GAP INC's CEO, Glenn Murphy, has revealed that the American retailer is willing to sign a European fire and safety pact, designed to prevent another Bangladeshi factory disaster, but only if there are changes made. The discussion over the changes, ...

The US has acknowledged that American clothing manufacturers were being supplied by the Bangladeshi garment factory complex whose collapse likely killed at least 550 people. The State Department also called on the impoverished country to improve its ...

Washington: Major American retailers have agreed to work to improve the safety condition of workers in Bangladesh, a move which has been welcomed by lawmakers here. Major US retailers like WalMart and Gap have agreed to implement a new programme to ...

The North American Bangladesh Worker Safety Working Group, which is comprised of five Canadian and U.S. retail associations, reaffirmed its commitment to improving worker safety conditions in Bangladesh on Wednesday. The Safer Factories intiative ...

Brazilian police have uncovered a trafficking network involving Bangladeshis who were smuggled into the South American country with promises of good wages but ended up doing slave labour.

American Apparel CEO Dov Charney has been on the warpath since the deadly collapse of a garment factory complex in Bangladesh took the lives of more than 1,100 people in April, and now he has his sights on Swedish retail giant H&M. The outspoken ...

Last week, a Bangladeshi tragedy hit American news. A large, nine-story building housing several garment manufacturers collapsed; the death toll is at least 380. This may sound distantly tragic, but it hits closer to home than many of us might like ...