1. Environmental, Labor Concerns Overlooked in Rush to Build Caracol Park, Part II
(Matching tags: reconstruction, garment industry, new york times, jobs, minimum wage, labor)

... that suggests a degree of ruthlessness even worse than the norm.’” Of course, labor rights violations in the garment sector in Haiti are nothing new. In fact, on the same day that U.S., Haitian and development ...

2. Environmental, Labor Concerns Overlooked in Rush to Build Caracol Park
(Matching tags: reconstruction, garment industry, iadb, new york times, garment factories, economy, jobs, unions, environment, minimum wage, accountability)

The first of two installments looking at the New York Times in depth investigation into the Caracol industrial park. Part two will be posted shortly. Deborah Sontag, writing in today’s New York Times, ...

3. As Caracol Industrial Park Progresses, Scrutiny of Problems Grows
(Matching tags: usaid, garment industry, iadb, garment factories, job creation, minimum wage)

... very real.” Dupuy adds that the push to support the garment manufacturing industry “has absolutely nothing to do with creating a sustainable growth economy in Haiti.”  ...

4. Will New Factory Jobs Offer Wages and Conditions that "Will Allow Haitians to Feel Proud"?
(Matching tags: garment industry, agriculture, bill clinton, garment factories)

... increase Haiti's garment industry workforce by more than 200 percent.” But among HGW’s key findings are that: Haitian workers earn less today than they did under the Duvalier dictatorship. Over ...

5. Investigation Finds Evidence of Violations of Union Rights in Garment Industry
(Matching tags: garment industry, hope ii, paul collier, garment factories, job creation, workers, unions)

... Haitian garment sector, and none in Port-au-Prince. In September, the Sendika Ouvriye Takstil ak Abiman (SOTA) union was formed as a sector wide movement. On September 16, SOTA obtained registration from ...

6. "Haitian Garment Workers Should Get $5 a Day"
(Matching tags: garment industry, hope ii)

Robert Naiman, Policy Director of Just Foreign Policy, argues in the Huffington Post for raising the wage of garment workers in Haiti: Americans want to help Haiti; Democrats control the U.S. Congress; ...