Long-time Honduran union leader José María Martínez of FESTAGRO is facing serious and repeated death threats for speaking out for banana workers' rights.

By Lisa Feldman

The
International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) calls on the United States
Trade Representative (USTR) to end tax breaks for Bangladeshi
business and instead use the resources to invest in a
brighter future for Bangladeshi workers. For more than five years, the
USTR has been continuing to review whether Bangladesh business should benefit
from tax breaks granted under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) trade
program in what has been an unsuccessful effort to convince the Government of
Bangladesh to end labor abuses in the garment industry and to hold its business
community accountable for the abuses.

By Hanna Claeson

The New York Times says that
“survivors [of the factory collapse] described a sensation akin to being in an
earthquake: hearing a loud and terrifying cracking sound; feeling the concrete
factory floor roll beneath their feet; and watching concrete beams and pillars
collapse as the eight-story building suddenly seemed to implode.”[1]