Indonesian Labor Union Confederation (Konfederasi Serikat Pekerja Indonesia or KSPI) demand a 30% increase in minimum wage for Jakarta from IDR2.4mn (USD200) to IDR3.2mn (USD270) per month and 40% increase for others area in 2015F. The union target to level the minimum wage to Thailand. Currently, Indonesian minimum wage is still relatively lower than other South East Asia regions such as Thailand, which has lowest wage rate of around IDR2.9mn (USD240). It plans a nationwide 10-30K labor strike

Jiangsu Lianfa Textile Co., Ltd, a China-based large-scale textile company, is planning to set up a textile factory in Naivasha, in Kenya’s Nakuru county, Kenyan Broadcasting Corporation KBC reported. The factory, to be set up at a cost of 40 billion shillings, is expected to produce goods worth US$ 1.5 billion every year and would create about 30,000 job opportunities in Naivasha. The project will utilize 50,000 acres reserved for cotton farming.Industrialization Cabinet Secretary of Kenya,

Italian textiles in the first half of 2014 posted an overall production growth generally outperforming the textile industry, data released here during the ongoing Italian Textiles Trade Show, Milano Unica, showed. Textiles, excluding knitted fabrics, registered a 7.6-percent increase on average in the January-June period, while the overall textile industry grew by 4.8 percent, organizers of Europe's top showcase for textiles and accessories, which runs from Tuesday to Thursday in Italy's fash

Chairman APTMA Punjab S M Tanveer has expressed concerns over the ongoing 10 hours electricity loadshedding for the Punjab-based textile industry on independent feeders, despite substantial reduction in demand for electricity and simultaneous increase in hydel generation in the country. Explaining the matter, he said that the electricity demand in the Punjab has reduced by 40 percent because of rains and appreciable drop in the ambient, while the dams are full. Because of continuous loadshed

The Government of Ghana is planning to invest in the textile sector of the country. The President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama, who visited Dignity DTRT, a garment company in Accra, said the Government is taking steps to invest in the local textile industries to promote it in the international market, Ghana news agency reported. He commended the management and staff of Dignity DTRT for the good work they were doing and promised that the Government would support them to improve production to

Chinese companies are looking to manufacture in the U.S., lured by lower costs of energy, cotton and land, and wary of rising labor costs in China. The Carolinas once the epicenter of the U.S. textile industry, but since the late 1990s, thousands of jobs were lost when emerging markets joined the game, touting cheaper materials and labor. Carolinas textile jobs went to China, Brazil and Vietnam, among other places. Keer, a textile company headquartered in Shanghai, China has decided to reloca

Many of us are aware of the high turnover in high-street clothing shops like Zara and Primark through our own lives — camouflage jackets are in and out of vogue in six months, and those pleather Topshop trousers you bought and wore once will never see the light of day again. The annual fashion season cycle, I was told by one retailer, has increased from three seasons to six seasons in just the last decade.It is not just fashion either. You buy any Apple product today and a new and better version

Worries of the Punjab-based textile industry are piling up fast with undue delay in uninterrupted energy supply to textile mills. The industry circles said they are trying their level best to approach the Ministry of Water & Power for having latest update of government's strategy towards the issue but all in vein. No response has so far been received despite repeated requests, they added. It may be noted that the government had reduced energy supply to the Punjab-based textile industry i

The number of jobless garment workers is on an alarming rise as the RMG factories are being shut day by day since the collapse of Rana Plaza building that brought bane to the RMG sector. Lack of enough work orders, non-compliance with the rules, labor unrest, exit from business and factory relocations are attributed to the closure of the factories. According to the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) latest data, since the Rana Plaza collapse last year, a tot

As basic wages soar in China, low-end manufacturing is starting to shift to cheaper locations around the world, and frontier African nations such as Ethiopia are positioning themselves to reap the benefits. With rock-bottom wages, cheap and stable electricity and improving transport infrastructure, the continent’s most populous nation after Nigeria is building a reputation for producing clothes, shoes and other basic goods. The sector is still in its infancy in what was for decades a Commu