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Senior managers from Shein and its rival Temu were summoned to the UK’s parliamentary business and trade committee to answer questions about their labour rights compliance and how they sourced their products. ADVERTISEMENT Executives representing fast-fashion giant Shein have refused to answer questions from UK politicians about whether the products the company sells contain cotton from China. The senior managers …

North Koreans have reportedly been banned from eating hot dogs as part of a crackdown on ‘Western culture’ infiltrating the country.  Dictator Kim Jong Un has declared that serving hotdogs was an act of treason, The Sun reports, amid the rising popularity of a South Korean dish inspired by the US.  People caught selling or cooking hot dogs face the prospect of …

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said workers at seven Amazon facilities will begin a strike on Thursday morning, an effort by the union to pressure the e-commerce company for a labour agreement during a key shopping period. ADVERTISEMENT The Teamsters say the workers, who authorised strikes in the past few days, are joining the picket line after Amazon ignored a …

The Labour Party (LP) has taken legal action following the defection of six members of the House of Representatives to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).   The latest defection involved Akangbe Illiya, representing Jos South/Jos East of Plateau State, who joined the APC on Thursday. This adds to the growing list of Labour Party lawmakers leaving the party.   …

The  Labour Party (LP) governorship candidate in the last election in Bayelsa State, Udengs Eradiri and his running mate, Commodore Benjamin Nathus (retd) have announced their resignations from the party.   It was gathered that most of the party’s local government chairmen in Bayelsa joined Eradiri and Nathus to dump the party.   Eradiri sent his resignation letter to the …

Etanabene Benedict, a member of the Labour Party (LP) caucus in the House of Representatives, has disclosed that several colleagues are contemplating defecting to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Benedict made this revelation during an appearance on Politics Today, a programme aired on Channels Television on Friday, December 6,   This statement follows the defection of four LP lawmakers to …

The Deputy Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, George Ibezimako Ozodinobi (Labour Party, Anambra) has criticised his colleagues for defecting to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.   Recall that four members of the LP – Chinedu Okere (Owerri Municipal/Owerri North/Owerri West Constituency), Mathew Donatus (Kaura Federal Constituency of Kaduna), Akiba Bassey (Calabar Municipal/Odukpani Constituency), and Esosa Iyawe (Oredo …

Sx workers in Belgium can now have job contracts that allows them to be entitled to health insurance, pensions, sick leave, and maternity leave. Belgium is the first country in the world to pass a law to give labour rights to sx workers. The move follows the countrys 2022 decision to decriminalize sx work. Under the new regulations, sx workers will have access …

The Labour Party (LP) has denied allegations of collaborating with President Bola Tinubu ahead of the 2027 elections.    The rebuttal follows a viral video in which Deji Adeyanju, a human rights lawyer, accused the party of working with the president.   In a statement issued on Friday, Obiora Ifoh, the national publicity secretary of the LP, dismissed the claims, …

Russia needs migrants in order to develop because of its dwindling domestic workforce, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published on Friday, Nov. 22.  “Migrants are a necessity,” he told state news agency RIA Novosti.  “We have a tense demographic situation. We live in the largest country in the world but there aren’t that many of us,” he …