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Robina is 18 years old and has been working as a sewing operator in the garment factories for the past two years sewing clothing for Wal-Mart and other U.S. companies. She was fired from the last factory she worked at after she was seen attending a meeting with people from the U.S. Robina earns 1,700 taka a month, which comes to $6.75 a week and just 14 cents an hour. In the last month, Robina has been forced to work four 19-hour all-night shifts from 8:00 a.m. straight through to 3:00 a.m., after which the workers slept on the factory floor. Her typical work shift is from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., six or seven days a week. Robina never had the chance to go to school, but with help from her friends, she has learned to sign her name. She lives with seven other people in a single room, sleeping on the floor. Typically she gets just five hours of sleep a night. Robina works 12 to 14 hours a day sewing clothing for the largest company in the world, and yet her wages are so low she cannot even afford to purchase a toothbrush and toothpaste, and must clean her teeth with her finger, using ashes from the fire. Click here to read the testimonies of Maksuda and Sknazma, two other Bangladeshi workers. Click here to read more about the 2004 NLC Bangladesh worker tour.

Back to Atateks Report Back to Jordan Update 5/9/2007 Dear Mr. Charles Kernaghan, We are glad to see that your web-site is renewed with more information from all over the world. We would like you/your people if possible pay a visit to our company to see the situation in Atateks Jordan Plant with their own eyes. We would also like to inform you that we employed 52 people from some other companies (all Bengal employees) to help them and get better conditions to work. These people became jobless after their company closed down by Jordanian Government officials due to wrong practices of work. As one of The Golden List Companies in Jordan we are offered to assist them and employ as many as we could. Now, both they and us are enjoying to work together. Also we are proudly carrying the title of The Golden List Companies in Jordan. Hope this extra information will help you to understand us more regarding the other year's report that we had nothing to do but to obey the law and government officials regarding some of our workers deportation. That's why we had been reported to you on the basis of wrong information. Anyway, we have a very clean page and have the aim to keep it clean. We would be happy if you could delete our company name in your web-site if possible, if not, then add this extra message to your web site. Yours faithfully, Ilhan Arslan Atateks Jordan Company General Manager

Back to Atateks Report Back to Jordan Update 5/9/2007 Dear Mr. Charles Kernaghan, We are glad to see that your web-site is renewed with more information from all over the world. We would like you/your people if possible pay a visit to our company to see the situation in Atateks Jordan Plant with their own eyes. We would also like to inform you that we employed 52 people from some other companies (all Bengal employees) to help them and get better conditions to work. These people became jobless after their company closed down by Jordanian Government officials due to wrong practices of work. As one of The Golden List Companies in Jordan we are offered to assist them and employ as many as we could. Now, both they and us are enjoying to work together. Also we are proudly carrying the title of The Golden List Companies in Jordan. Hope this extra information will help you to understand us more regarding the other year's report that we had nothing to do but to obey the law and government officials regarding some of our workers deportation. That's why we had been reported to you on the basis of wrong information. Anyway, we have a very clean page and have the aim to keep it clean. We would be happy if you could delete our company name in your web-site if possible, if not, then add this extra message to your web site. Yours faithfully, Ilhan Arslan Atateks Jordan Company General Manager

Advocacy Group Finds Violations At Bangladesh Apparel Factory

Group Accuses Jordan of Failing to Enforce Labor Rights The nation is not living up to promises in a trade agreement with the U.S., the organization alleges. By Evelyn Iritani, Times Staff WriterOctober 16, 2006