Lesotho textile workers lose jobs
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Six foreign-owned textile factories close in Lesotho, leaving 6,650 garment workers jobless, a union says.
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International textile firm Fruit of the Loom plans to close its operations in Donegal over the next four to five years and move them to Morocco, where costs are lower.
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The end of a global trade pact could hit the world's poorest textile workers hard, charity Christian Aid warns.
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Weekly wages for rank-and-file workers fell because companies reduced the average length of the workweek.
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Weeks of street protests have shut down the capital and threatened the once-thriving textile-export industry.
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The expiration of WTO textile quotas at the end of 2004 is expected to jeopardize jobs in some of the world's poorest places as the textile industry uproots to consolidate in low-cost China.
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From Africa to Russia, from Peru to China, mining companies face a problem: the workers who haul up the earth's riches are coming down with AIDS, and it is hampering operations at a time of booming demand for minerals.
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JOHANNESBURG -- Public sector workers yesterday staged the biggest strike in post-apartheid South Africa, closing down schools, forcing hospital patients to return home, and leaving only minimum staffing in prisons.
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Mining and manufacturing have been hardest by the economic fall out from HIV and Aids in South Africa.
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Arthritis sufferers across South Africa have been inundating call centres and pharmacists in the wake of the shock withdrawal of their medication by the manufacturers of the most widely used drug treating the disease.
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Some 200,000 workers in the tourism business in the six southern provinces that have been hardest hit by the deadly tsunami on Sunday are facing the bleak prospect of losing their jobs, according to Sontaya Kunplome, the tourism and sports minister.
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An electrical equipment factory in the south Wales valleys could close with the loss of 215 jobs.
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The closings of the Huronia, Rideau and Southwestern Regional Centres in Orillia, Smith Falls and Chatham will mean 2,200 lost jobs in the centres and moving 1,000 people from institutions to community settings such as group homes.
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About 250 people have been killed and 100,000 have lost their homes as catastrophic floods ravaged East Africa, aid workers said Friday as rains continued to pound the impoverished region.
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More than 260 people could lose their jobs at a medical equipment firm in Ballymoney, County Antrim.
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An Electrolux cooker factory in County Durham is to close with the loss of 500 jobs, it is confirmed.
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A once-thriving coal mine in Yorkshire was closing down, leaving just nine deep coal mines in Britain, the pale remains of an industry that once employed a million people.