In today’s evolving environment, packaging has become a critical driver of cost savings, efficiency and sustainability. Businesses across all industries are facing rising shipping costs, labor shortages, and increasing pressure to operate more sustainably.
The union said that the shipyard's most recent contract offer does not adequately address concerns over wages, insurance coverage and retirement income security.
The EIS Pilot has been successfully implemented in the Ready-Made Garment sector in Bangladesh where it covers around four million workers and continues expanding to other sectors.
99% of workers represented by United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 voted to authorize an unfair labor practice strike after nine months of negotiations over a new contract.
Eddy Azad believes the new wave of robotics is remaking the factory floor into an environment that promises to attract a new generation of human workers.
If nearshoring and regional strategies are to work properly, companies need to have resilient and flexible supply chains, says Matt Schroeder, president of WSI/Kase.
In decades past, manufacturers fled the U.S. for Asia in search of lower production expense. But sourcing decisions today are a lot more complicated than that.