The British supermarket giant suspended Zhejiang Yunguang Printing following a media report that a customer had found a message inside a Christmas card saying it had been packed by foreign prisoners who were victims of forced labour.The ABC quoted a Cotton On statement as saying its “supplier code of conduct includes a zero-tolerance approach to any form of modern slavery, including forced labour.”
Cotton On did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.Tesco PLC said the Christmas cards were produced at the Zhejiang Yunguang Printing factory, about 100 km (60 miles) from Shanghai Qingpu prison. It said it was shocked by the allegations and is investigating the matter.Zhejiang Yunguang did not respond to a request for comment, but China on Monday dismissed accusatio…
Japan, Switzerland and Canada also criticised Washington, but U.S. trade ambassador Dennis Shea charged that China’s “unfair competitive practices” were harming foreign companies and workers in violation of WTO rules, and he vowed to lead reform efforts at the watchdog.President Donald Trump’s administration says the WTO is dysfunctional because it has failed to hold China to account for not opening up its economy as envisaged when Beijing joined in 2001.
Shea drew a rebuke from Chinese envoy Zhang Xiangchen who said U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminium products had allowed protectionism under the guise of dubious national security concerns.“The multilateral trading system is in a deep crisis and the United States is at its epicentre,” said EU ambassador Mark Vanheukele…
The world’s biggest online retailer said the positions are for full and part-time work in its home country and Canada, and these will include roles at 100 new warehouse and operations sites it is opening this month. The Seattle-based company employed 876,800 people as of June 30, excluding contractors and temporary personnel.The news reflects Amazon’s constant need for labor to pick, pack and ship products to shoppers’ doorsteps, with a 40% revenue rise last quarter and the biggest profit in the retailer’s 26-year-history. It is rolling out automation at its newest buildings at the same time, said Alicia Boler Davis, Amazon’s vice president of global customer fulfillment.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเ…
Geneva-based IndustriALL Global Union and Nyon-based UNI Global Union feel the extension of the Accord is currently the ‘only credible way’ to prevent life-threatening hazards in garment factories in the country, according to a press release from IndustriALLคำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง. Many brands not singing it shows their lack of commitment to staying the course to prevent another Rana Plaza tragedy, it said.Around 50 brands, which use 1,173 readymade garment factories in Bangladesh, have committed to signing the 2018 Accord.
The first Bangladesh Accord, which expires next May, was launched following the Rana Plaza collapse in April 2013 that killed 1,134 workers. T…
The All India Online Vendors Association (AIOVA) on Friday filed a petition with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) alleging that the online retailer favors merchants that it partly owns, such as Cloudtail and Appario.The company said on Monday that all sellers on its platform are treated equally.
“Amazon has an equal relationship with all the sellers on our marketplace,” Amazon India spokeswoman Bhumika Shah said in an email, adding that the company is “absolutely committed” to compliance with local laws.AIOVA, which represents more than 3,500 online sellers, said that large sellers such as Cloudtail and Appario were being charged significantly less than Amazon’s advertised rates.Cloudtail is owned by Prione Business Services, which is a joint venture between Ama…
In the programme, an M6 journalist reported how he managed to get himself hired as freight handler at one of Amazon’s warehouses, in the town of Saran, northern France, in order to obtain a video record of the e-commerce giant’s operations. Notably showing a series of huge containers used to destroy all sorts of objects, from sofas to coffee machines, TVs and toys.The journalist managed to speak to several former employees, and also revealed some of the clauses contained in the contract between the Amazon marketplace and the third-party vendors it hosts, and whose products it stocks in its warehouses.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
In the contract, Amazon gives such vendors, …
The company said its new efforts place a particular focus on tackling climate change, the environmental impact of its products and services and circularity. In addition to setting a science-based target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reducing its single-use plastic by 50%, Nordstrom has also set goals to use sustainably sourced raw materials in 50% of Nordstrom Made products made of polyester, cotton and cellulosic fibers; extend the life of 250 tons of clothing; ensure 15% of all product is considered sustainable; and donate $1 million to support textile recycling innovation.
Nordstrom said it aims to meet its new goals by 2025. The retailer has cut back on single-use plastic, and will begin phasing out plastic bags from its more than 245 Nordstrom Rack stores beginning…
To this end, GOTS has announced the deployment of a system known as the “controlled supply chain system” (CSCS). The aim is to enable small and medium-sized operators to benefit from a grouped control and audit system, thereby reducing the costs and administrative procedures involved in the criteria required for the certification. “Under the CSCS, a supply chain made up of eight to thirty small-scale facilities, each with at least twenty employees, could be considered as a single certified entity after a full risk assessment by its certification body,” sums up the organisation. คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง
The soon-to-be century-old textile manufacturer Sankei Meriyasu, which …
Speaking at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on China’s crackdown on Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in its western Xinjiang region, Republican Senator Marco Rubio said many U.S. companies had not woken up to the fact that they were “profiting” from the Chinese government’s abuses.”For far too long companies like Nike and Apple and Amazon and Coca-Cola were using forced labour. They were benefiting from forced labour or sourcing from suppliers that were suspected of using forced labour,” Rubio said. “These companies, sadly, were making all of us complicit in these crimes.”
Senator Ed Markey, who led the hearing with fellow Democrat Tim Kaine, said a number of U.S. technology companies had profited from the Chinese government’s “authoritarian surveillance industry,”…