Economic Solutions: SweatFree Communities' new report and EFCA

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Date of publication: April 16, 2009

Source: Community Radio WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill

Author: Meredith DeFrancesco

Today we talk with Bangladeshi labor activist Kalpona Akter, who along with two of her colleagues were arrested last summer following their involvement in a movement to raise the minimum wage for garment workers in Bangladesh. The garment factory managers who have leveled charges against the three activists are major suppliers to Walmart...
 

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