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...controversy. In 2005, his Chinese workers protested over low pay. This year an article in the London Sunday Times quoted the International Textile, Garment and Leather Workers Federation as warning that some textile companies treat migrant workers "like slaves." Woo's response? His company pays workers more than the minimum rate set by the government and complies with the ethical codes laid down by customers...
...workers had not been paid regular wages for months. Seven months on, the estate's new owners have hired new managers, started regular maintenance of the plants and soil and begun a move to organic farming. Perhaps most important, productivity is inching up. In addition to a guaranteed minimum daily wage of $1.38, workers get incentives to pick more. Darjeeling's oldest tea estate is turning its original factory into a working museum. "Innovation, along with quality and marketing, is the key to surviving today," says Ambootia Tea chairman Sanjay Bansal, who says he has turned around 11 dying...
Everything that happens in the tea industry, of course, depends on its workers. The Plantation Labor Act of 1951 guarantees not just a minimum wage for workers in tea, coffee and rubber but also housing, education, medical care and drinking water. Those benefits add about 11% to production costs and are the main reason Indian tea costs about $1.62 a kg to produce, compared with $1.23 in Sri Lanka, $1.16 in Kenya and 84¢ in Malawi. Strong unions in India's tea-growing regions have fought to preserve those benefits. Tea-estate workers are paid on average...
...ntefering had recently quarreled with Chancellor Angela Merkel over her refusal to introduce a minimum wage; he had also tussled with his own party's left wing over government plans to roll back welfare reforms introduced under the previous SPD-led government. But already questions have shifted from what engendered Müntefering's departure to what it could mean for the future: a leftward shift in the SPD, the end of any meaningful economic reforms for the current German government, and possibly the opening salvo in elections expected...
...electric playmaker, and coach Joe Jones is knee-deep in wings who can shoot. The Lions may make City college hoops (apologies to Manhattan and Wagner and the like) relevant come March.3. YALEThe thing with Yale is you can mark it down for five or six wins at minimum in the claustrophobic, noisy John J. Lee Ampitheater. The Elis have the best home-court advantage in the league, better even than Penn’s in the historic Palestra.The Bulldogs are motored by All-Ivy guard Eric Flato, a little-engine type who can shoot, pass...