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.
The roles moving to Nashville will include direct and indirect sourcing teams, with the company expecting to move additional jobs to Tennessee down the line.
Companies that invest in comprehensive change management today are building the competitive advantage that will define the next decade of American manufacturing.
The case represents an important precedent, giving plaintiffs with allegations against foreign companies supplying British manufacturers the right to be heard in an English court.
Whirlpool opened a new manufacturing facility in Mexico in August 2025, and union officials and workers say their manufacturing work and jobs have been moved there.