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...