From the News! - Your Daily News » Anvil’s Shop http://fromthenews.net Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:35:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Inspectors find more violations at sweatshop http://fromthenews.net/inspectors-find-more-violations-at-sweatshop.htm http://fromthenews.net/inspectors-find-more-violations-at-sweatshop.htm#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:48:37 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=4651 Martin P. Marfil
Philippine Daily Inquirer

The team of inspectors sent Thursday by the Department of Labor and Employment to the Anvil Ensembles factory in the eastern town of Taytay in Rizal province said… Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/inspectors-find-more-violations-at-sweatshop.htm/feed 0 Anvil garments and the high road to job growth http://fromthenews.net/anvil-garments-and-the-high-road-to-job-growth.htm http://fromthenews.net/anvil-garments-and-the-high-road-to-job-growth.htm#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=3037 Rene E. Ofreneo
Manila Times

The nation was shocked to read the investigative report on Anvil Ensemble, a Taytay, Rizal-based garments subcontractor, which required its workers to work continuously –day and night–for 48 to 72 hours just to be… Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/anvil-garments-and-the-high-road-to-job-growth.htm/feed 0 Surprise inspections won’t banish sweatshops http://fromthenews.net/surprise-inspections-wont-banish-sweatshops.htm http://fromthenews.net/surprise-inspections-wont-banish-sweatshops.htm#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=3038 Philippine Daily Inquirer

Your expose on Anvil Garments has caused the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to raise the red light against sweatshops (July 11, 2003). Unfortunately, surprise visits on business enterprises will not be enough. Unless and until the… Read the rest

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Philippine Daily Inquirer

Mahirap matulog ang gutom (The hungry have a hard time sleeping),” says Joel Buela, union president of A. Bylsons Co. Inc., a garments firm based in Las Piñas City in Metro Manila, which unceremoniously… Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/trials-of-garments-workers.htm/feed 0 Taytay sweatshop starts paying back wages http://fromthenews.net/taytay-sweatshop-starts-paying-back-wages.htm http://fromthenews.net/taytay-sweatshop-starts-paying-back-wages.htm#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=3040 Luige del Puerto
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Garments factory Anvil Ensembles has started paying its workers a settlement amount in back wages and unpaid benefits.

This has satisfied “for now” the Department of Labor and Employment and the Garments and… Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/taytay-sweatshop-starts-paying-back-wages.htm/feed 0 Accreditation ng Anvil binawi ng GTEB http://fromthenews.net/accreditation-ng-anvil-binawi-ng-gteb.htm http://fromthenews.net/accreditation-ng-anvil-binawi-ng-gteb.htm#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=3041 Abante

Binawi ng Garments andTextile Export Board (GTEB), isang ahensiya ng Department of Trade and Industry, ang certificate of compliance ng Anvil Ensembles, sa ilalim ng re-accreditation program ng ahensiya.

Sinabi ni Executive Director Serafin N. Juliano na pansamantala ring… Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/accreditation-ng-anvil-binawi-ng-gteb.htm/feed 0 Accreditation ng ANVIL ni-revoke ng GTEB http://fromthenews.net/accreditation-ng-anvil-ni-revoke-ng-gteb.htm http://fromthenews.net/accreditation-ng-anvil-ni-revoke-ng-gteb.htm#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=3042 RP Daily Exposé

Ni-revoke ng Garments and Textile Export Board, isang ahensiyang Deprtment of Trade and Industry, ang certificate of compliance ng Anvil Ensembles, sa ilalim ng re-accreditation program ng ahensiya.

Sinabi ni Executive Director Serafin N. Juliano na pansamantala… Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/accreditation-ng-anvil-ni-revoke-ng-gteb.htm/feed 1 Sweatshops keeping workers awake with drugs face rap http://fromthenews.net/sweatshops-keeping-workers-awake-with-drugs-face-rap.htm http://fromthenews.net/sweatshops-keeping-workers-awake-with-drugs-face-rap.htm#comments Sat, 12 Jul 2003 04:00:00 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=3043 Juliet Javellana and Gil Cabacungan Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Considered drug pushers

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday warned employers who use drugs to keep workers awake that the government would treat them as severely as possible.

The President said… Read the rest

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The government has acknowledged that 18 sweatshops are operating in violation of labor laws, although an official of the Garments and Textile Export Board was quick to say that the firms are not sweatshops but merely “socially noncompliant”… Read the rest

]]> http://fromthenews.net/sweatshops.htm/feed 0 Govt discovers 18 sweatshops flouting laws http://fromthenews.net/govt-discovers-18-sweatshops-flouting-laws-2.htm http://fromthenews.net/govt-discovers-18-sweatshops-flouting-laws-2.htm#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:35:34 +0000 ripchord http://fromthenews.net/?p=4640 Juliet Labor-Javellana and Martin P. Marfil
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Unfair practice

President Macapagal-Arroyo wants to know how a garment factory in Taytay, Rizal, was able to obtain the necessary export requirements despite the substandard wages and working conditions of… Read the rest

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