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Maquila Solidarity Update Vol. 13.2 (June 2008)
May 27, 2008
In this issue:
- Bangladeshi workers and labour rights advocates arrested under emergency laws
- Factory investigation confirms Catholic students’ sweatshop fears
- Play Fair activists set targets for better working conditions by next Olympic Games
- Vaqueros Navarra workers fight blacklisting, struggle for severance pay
- 45 hour student sit-in wins No Sweat licensing policy at York University
- Montreal garment workers fight factory closure
- Cambodian union enters fifth month on strike
- Ontario First Nations leaders jailed for peaceful protest