Susana Rendon, a
garment worker, was always confronting her bosses:
Guerilla Media and MediAttaq of Montreal launched the joint campaign with a humourous and direct attack against the exploitation of female
garment workers in Canada and abroad.
Similar scenes of cheated and abused
garment workers have been reported recently in Southern California, Boston, Maryland and New York City:
Jewish women
garment workers did not passively accept exclusion from the workplace.
Of the 4,774 Asian
garment workers, 4,425 (92.69 percent) are Chinese.
A family that owns more than 1,000 rental rooms has agreed to increase monthly rates by $5 per month for the next three months - rather than the $10 considered - after some 100
garment workers protested in the capital on Sunday and Monday.
Despite a series of reforms following deadly factory fires and protests, many of the country's 15 million
garment workers struggle with poor working conditions and face threats if they try to unionise, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report.
Garment workers in Myanmar still earn one of the lowest salaries in Asia.
Mina continued describing her life as a
garment worker, "If I am a little late, my supervisor criticizes me a lot, and threatens me that I will lose my job." I asked her if she had ever been physically abused.
(3) In how many of the countries on the graph does a minimum-wage
garment worker earn at least $1,200 in a year?
She was a
garment worker for Local 75 International Ladies
Garment Workers Union.