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    AAFA reacts to cancellation of labor rights contracts

    April 1, 2025 // Among the U.S. contracts canceled were the Global Better Work Program and Better Work Global, which were designed to improve working conditions and enforce labor rights in Haiti, Jordan, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Vietnam, per the AAFA release. ILAB was the sole funder of the Better Work Haiti and Better Work Jordan programs, an AAFA spokesperson said in an email. On Tuesday, the AAFA, which represents more than 1,000 fashion industry members, also signed onto a group letter sent to the U.S. Secretary of Labor urging for the reinstatement of the recently rescinded ILAB contract to improve labor rights in the Uzbekistan cotton industry.

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    News Article ● Unions

    Biden in Portland: ‘Union workers are the best’

    May 6, 2022 // After the hangar event, Biden attended a Democratic National Committee fundraiser at the Portland Yacht Club, where he spoke for about 30 minutes before returning to the airport to depart for Seattle.

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