Solidarity Center News: Workers Make Gains in Nicaragua, Bangladesh
Friday, October 26, 2012
(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)Nicaragua has become the third country -- after Uruguay and the Philippines --
to ratify the International Labor Organization (ILO) convention standard giving
domestic workers the right to decent work. In Bangladesh, 250 garment workers at
Zilani Apparels Ltd., in Rampura, Dhaka, are in the process of forming a union
with the help of the Bangladesh Federation of Workers’ Solidarity (BFWS). Get the details about these stories
and more from the Solidarity Center. - photo: workers at Zilani Apparels in
Bangladesh; photo courtesy of the Solidarity Center