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    Part of the ancient Teotihuacán site, pictured right, is now underneath a Walmart, after Walmart bribed local officials. Walmart destroys Mexico’s cultural heritage for profit.

     

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    Walmart is the biggest private sector employer in the world.  Whether they’re undermining wages or building stores on ancient archaeological sites, let’s keep an eye on them.

     

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    Justice for Aminul Islam

    Bangladeshi garment workers’ union leader Aminul Islam was tortured and murdered in April this year. Support the campaign to bring his killers to justice.

     

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    Bangladesh: Demand Justice!

    More than 1,000 workers died – and the lives of their families ripped apart - when a factory making clothes for Primark, Matalan and Mango collapsed. Demand that these UK high street retailers take responsibility for their supply chains.

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    Tell Walmart and Disney to compensate Tazreen fire victims

    The Tazreen Fashion fire in Bangladesh killed 112 workers in November last year. Some brands have compensated family members for their loss, but Walmart and Disney refuse.

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    Nestle Chairman says water isn’t a human right.

    Nestle Chairman Peter Brabeck says that water isn’t a human right, and that privatisation is the best way to ensure fair distribution. Tell him he’s wrong.

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    Web conference with Professor Riccardo Bellofiore, professor of monetary economics and history of [...]

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    Not good enough, Debenhams

    - By Walton Pantland The Rana Plaza disaster in Bangladesh has shone a light on conditions in the textile industry, and put pressure on major retailers to take responsibility for their supply chains. Unions and campaigners have been applying [...]

    An arms race to the bottom

    Can we use the legal system to hold corporations to account in the US? Jeff Monahan looks at the opportunities and limitations. - By Jeff Monahan Typically an arms race is a competition between enemy states to innovate and design the most dangerous [...]

    Sexualisation empowers women, right?

    by Samantha Ritchie  Objectifying women is now prime time entertainment in Denmark. A new TV show objectifies women by allowing two men to critique their bodies while the woman remains silent. The ‘chat show’ entitled [...]

    Swazi trade unionist Wonder Mkhonza granted bail

    - By Peter Kenworthy According to a statement today from PUDEMO national spokesperson, Zakhele Mabuza, Wonder Mkhonza has been granted a bail of 15 000 emalangeni, approximately $1,650. Wonder Mkhonza was arrested on April 12 for allegedly [...]

    USi interview with Kostas Vaxevanis

    On 28 October 2012, he was arrested over HotDoc’s publication of a document which claimed to be the Lagarde list, a list of 1,991 names of Greek citizens with accounts at the Swiss branch of HSBC, suggesting that they could be tax evaders. The [...]

    Progress in Bangladesh: USi news update 14 May 2013

    USi news update, talking about developments in workers’ rights in Bangladesh, an international union campaign at National Express, our recent conferences with Kostas Vaxevanis and Yanis Varoufakis, and blood strawberries in Greece. You can [...]

    Ancient temple bulldozed in Belize for road construction

    - By Dr Donna Yates A Maya temple at Nohmul in Belize has been bulldozed to get aggregate for road construction. Recently I wrote a short piece for USi about the construction of a Walmart at the Mexican archaeological site of Teotihuacan. I find [...]

    Greece: Is there Blood on your Strawberries?

      - By Mhairi McAlpine The situation for the migrant workers of Manolada hit the international headlines last month in the aftermath of a mass shooting. But behind that acute incident lies a murky world of slave labour and sex trafficking all [...]

    Deadline Looms for Clothing Brands to Sign Bangladesh Agreement

    With the 15 May deadline for global clothing brands to sign up to a watershed Bangladesh factory fire and safety agreement, the ITUC is calling on companies yet to commit to the agreement to do so without any further delay. Sharan Burrow, ITUC [...]

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      On 28 October 2012, he was arrested over HotDoc’s publication of a document which claimed to be the Lagarde list, a list of 1,991 names of Greek citizens with accounts at the Swiss branch of HSBC, suggesting that they could be tax evaders. The published list according to the magazine, “matched a list of 2,059 […]
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      USi news update, talking about developments in workers’ rights in Bangladesh, an international union campaign at National Express, our recent conferences with Kostas Vaxevanis and Yanis Varoufakis, and blood strawberries in Greece. You can watch the video:   Or download the podcast: Download   […]
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      Download    We look on in horror as the death toll in the latest industrial accident in Bangladesh continues to rise. This is the country that has won the global race to the bottom: the lowest wages, and the worst conditions. The horrible death tool has reached more than 1,000 people – and the lives […]
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