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Miliband: Deficit a test for Labour
2014-12-11 01:52:12| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Labour leader Ed Miliband will promise a "tough but balanced" approach to cutting the 90bn deficit, when he sets out his plans in a speech.
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Cheap labour "not the future" for Bangladesh
2014-12-10 16:09:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Bangladesh should try to avoid competing on cheap labour in the future and instead move into high-end products, the Dhaka Apparel Summit was told this week.
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Bring on carbon tax, says oilsands labour
2014-12-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Tyee: By the end of this month, Alberta will say whether it plans to make its climate laws stronger. The timing is terrible, according to Alberta Premier Jim Prentice. The recent oil price drop means "it's time for caution." Even a small increase to the modest carbon tax Alberta enacted in 2007 can cause "immediate" impacts to investment and jobs, he warns. You might expect the top labour leader in a province of oil and gas workers to agree. But Gil McGowan called warnings like that "a load of bunk."...
THE FLANARANT: Has low-cost labour really reached a tipping point?
2014-12-04 11:33:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Low-income workers are likely to dominate the global garment-making workforce for a long time yet, Mike Flanagan believes, despite recent forecasts that the number of low-cost countries is dwindling.
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Bangladesh garments added to child labour list
2014-12-02 13:08:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Garments made in Bangladesh have been added to an annual list of goods produced using child or forced labour, compiled by the US Department of Labor.
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