Not only are Primark holding their AGM in order to coincide with the Bangladeshi Garment Workers Solidarity Tour - but they are holding it at TUC headquarters!!!

A slide show and discussion with Ewa Jasiewicz, recently returned from India and Iraq.

"PRIMARK: ‘Cut the Spin - the crisis for workers continues’"
What: Protest
Host: Tara, Stacey and Labour Behind the Label
Start Time: Tuesday, November 25 at 10:30am
End Time: Tuesday, November 25 at 12:00pm
Where: The Grange City Hotel

Take action to support Turkish leatehr workers producing for Prada, Louis Vuitton, Mulberry and others.

Night before No Sweat Gathering, after the Climate Change March in London. At the Cross Kings.

Part of the Global Day of Climate Protest, this year's March happens while the UN Climate talks are being held in Poznan. Critically, our last chance to influence decision making before the Post-Kyoto agreement is finalised in Copenhagen, 2009.

Here is the latest number of the General Workers Union (UGT) Brasil international newsletter, World UGT.

Read the PDF attachment for news from Brazil.

The workers at Body Fashion Thailand (BFT), Triumph International’s Thai subsidiary, are responsible for sewing the underwear and bras that bear Triumph’s name. They are proud of their work—and their union. So when their union president, Jitra Kotshadej, was unfairly dismissed in July, they went on strike to demand justice. While Ms. Kotshadej awaits a hearing of her case in court, members of the Triumph International Thailand Labour Union went back to work.

No Sweat National Speaker Tour:

Paid as little as 14p an hour, working up to 18 hour days, the garment workers of Bangladesh are not only some of the most exploited workers on the planet - they are also some of the most militant activists and trade unionists in the world.

Come and hear them tell their courageous story of how the forces of workers solidarity are winning the battle against the sweatshop bosses and the military government of Bangladesh.

Workers at Oak Harbor Freight Lines in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, who deliver for GAP, went on strike more than a month ago and the response of the company has been brutal.

They've employed scabs, cut off health care to retirees, and bullied and intimidated striking workers.

No Sweat @ Housmans Bookshop

Housmans radical booksellers are playing host to No Sweat with an evening of music and sweatshop politics, promoting the upcoming No Sweat Annual Gathering and launching new No Sweat ethical tshirts!

Featuring in-store acoustic sets from the fantastic...

King Blues Frontman Itch Fox

Clayton Blizzard

Pj and Gaby

Housmans Booksellers, 5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London, N1 9DX

According to the Wall Street Journal, Walmart is telling its Chinese suppliers they have to repsect workers' rigths, including the right to organsie. Shame they don't do this in their own stores. Oh, and there's still the little question of who will pay for better wages and conditions. Walmart seem to think it must be someone else.

By Ann Zimmerman and Mei Fong
23 October 2008
The Wall Street Journal Europe

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is hitting its Chinese suppliers with a slate of stringent environmental and safety mandates, just as the manufacturers face rising costs and dwindling demand for their products.

What are you up to next weekend? Do you and nice people want to come to the Hands off Iraqi oil demo in London on Saturday 11th?

11 OCTOBER, LONDON: 100 DAYS TO STOP BUSH & CHENEY'S IRAQ OIL GRAB! Demo
to mark the beginning of the last 100 days of the Bush-Cheney
administration.

Triumph International Fails to Credibly Address the Violation of Basic
Human Rights at its Thai Subsidiary http://www.cleanclothes.org/urgent/08-09-23.htm

From July 30 to September 13 more than 2,000 workers were on strike to
demand reinstatement of their union president, Ms. Jitra Kotshadej, at
the Thai subsidiary of underwear giant Triumph International.

HONG KONG / MONTREAL – Sept. 24, 2008 – A large part of China's remarkable economic development has been achieved at the expense of the basic rights of millions of former state-owned enterprise workers, says a new report released today by the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin and Canada's International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development, commonly known as Rights & Democracy.

From China Labour Bulletin:

Thanks to Richard and Andrew and to Andrew O'Neil and Team Mud and to everyone who came and made last week's No Sweat comedy fundraiser a fantastic night and raised over £1,000 to help us organise our annual gathering, coming up in December.

It was recorded by Andrew Collins and Richard Herring and their set is available as podcast in which they deliver our own sideways look at the news. Available at:

http://www.comedy.org.uk/podcasts/collingsherrin/

LabourBbehind the Label have just published Let's Clean Up Fashion 2008 update. You can download the pdf from http://www.labourbehindthelabel.org/images/pdf/letscleanupfashion2008.pd...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Soaring inflation and stagnant wages have led thousands of Cambodian garment factory workers to quit and look for better-paying jobs or return to the countryside, union leaders said Wednesday.

This is By KER MUNTHIT from Associated Press.

No Sweat will be joining other campaigns and activists at this year's Anarchist Bookfair.

The programme of meetings is now up on our website for all to see. Just go to www.anarchistbookfair.org to see who is talking about what, when and where.

Dodgy Development - How Department for International Development cash is developing profits at the expense of the poor in India.

Film and discussion, hosted by No Sweat:

Join the Indonesian workers in their struggle to change the garment industry in Indonesia, and give them your support in this case.

Take action now at: http://www.cleanclothes.org/urgent/08-09-16.htm#action

COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT AND SUGAR PRODUCERS ATTACK WORKERS DURING A JUST PROTEST

More than 100 workers were left injured today, 15 September 2008, by the limitless aggression of the national army, the police mobile anti-disturbance squadron ESMAD, and the private security of the sugar processing plants.