Mass layoffs hit multiple garment factories following US tariff hike

LabourStart needs your support - please give generously :

Thank you!

Top stories

Lesotho Mass layoffs hit multiple garment factories following US tariff hike [BHHRC] ActNOW! 14-10-2025

Lesotho / USA Factory workers to march as Lesotho’s textile jobs hang by a thread [GroundUp] 08-10-2025

Lesotho / USA Trump’s tariffs could cost Lesotho 30,000 jobs, the IMF warns [GroundUp] 26-09-2025

Lesotho Ending AGOA will cost 'our souls and bodies’: Lesotho union leader [Context] 20-09-2025

Lesotho / USA Hundreds of diamond mining jobs to be axed following US tariff threats [GroundUp] 29-07-2025

Lesotho Lesotho declares unemployment a national disaster [GroundUp] 11-07-2025

Lesotho Union fury erupts over forced Mothae Mine layoffs [IndustriALL] 03-07-2025

Lesotho / USA Mass lay-offs at garment factories as US tariffs bite [GroundUp] 13-06-2025

Lesotho The thorny truth of Lesotho’s rosehip industry [GroundUp] 15-05-2025

Lesotho / USA 1,500 health workers sent home after US aid suspended [GroundUp] 11-02-2025

Other news

Mass layoffs hit multiple garment factories following US tariff hike ActNOW! 2025-10-14 [BHHRC]

Lesotho Lesotho permit: A lifeline for Basotho workers facing collapse of textile industry 2025-10-11 [GroundUp]

USA Factory workers to march as Lesotho’s textile jobs hang by a thread 2025-10-08 [GroundUp]

USA Trump’s tariffs could cost Lesotho 30,000 jobs, the IMF warns 2025-09-26 [GroundUp]

Ending AGOA will cost 'our souls and bodies’: Lesotho union leader 2025-09-20 [Context]

Lesotho Lesotho workers condemn denial of healthcare to Basotho in South Africa 2025-08-07 [GroundUp]

USA Lesotho faces major job losses unless Trump’s US tariffs are cut even further 2025-08-06 [Daily Maverick]

USA Hundreds of diamond mining jobs to be axed following US tariff threats 2025-07-29 [GroundUp]

Lesotho declares unemployment a national disaster 2025-07-11 [GroundUp]

Union fury erupts over forced Mothae Mine layoffs 2025-07-03 [IndustriALL]

USA Mass lay-offs at garment factories as US tariffs bite 2025-06-13 [GroundUp]

The thorny truth of Lesotho’s rosehip industry 2025-05-15 [GroundUp]

Fight over fish in Katse Dam 2025-04-22 [GroundUp]

USA Health Minister confident Lesotho can manage without US funding, but jobs are already being lost 2025-03-26 [GroundUp]

USA 1,500 health workers sent home after US aid suspended 2025-02-11 [GroundUp]

Lesotho Police launch manhunt for gang leader of illegal mine 2025-02-10 [Daily Maverick]

IDUL disowns verbal abuse allegations at Presitex 2024-12-31 [Lesotho Times]

Govt accused of driving Basotho into illegal mining 2024-12-04 [Lesotho Times]

Ex-miners claim they are being short-changed in compensation process 2024-09-19 [Lesotho Times]

Job losses begin at diamond mines 2024-09-11 [Lesotho Times]

Mining industry in trouble 2024-09-02 [Lesotho Times]

Lesotho SAFTU appalled by sex trafficking of Basotho women 2024-08-23 [SAFTU]

United Textile Employees Union holds Elective Congress 2024-08-10 [Peoples Dispatch]

Village health workers unhappy with pay 2024-07-22 [Lesotho Times]

Enhancing safety and inclusiveness at work 2024-06-30 [IndustriALL]

Nearly 16,000 jobs lost in the textile sector 2024-06-17 [Lesotho Times]

Gvt to meet with striking health workers -DPM 2024-06-11 [Lesotho Times]

Health workers not backing down on strike 2024-06-04 [Lesotho Times]

Female sex workers continue facing discrimination 2024-05-21 [Lesotho Times]

Union vows to fight against discrimination of women 2024-05-06 [May Day]

Female factory workers in outcry over unpaid maternity leave 2024-04-28 [Lesotho Times]

Lesotho miners remembered 2024-04-26 [IndustriALL]

Union takes Adient Automotive to labour tribunal for union busting 2024-04-19 [IndustriALL]

Beyond the sparkle: advancing workers' rights in the diamond sector 2024-02-23 [IndustriALL]

Lesotho Eastern Cape Implats disaster another mining tragedy for people of Eastern Cape and Lesotho 2023-12-07 [Daily Maverick]

Global Multi-stakeholders gather to learn lessons from Lesotho on tackling gender-based violence and harassment at work 2023-09-18 [Equal Times]

South Africa Silicosis: the astonishing story of the driller from Lesotho 2023-09-15 [GroundUp]

Africa Global summit praises Lesotho GBVH agreements 2023-08-03 [IndustriALL]

Lesotho COSATU President Zingiswa Losi – Opening Remarks 2023-07-28 [COSATU]

Prominant journalist shot and killed 2023-06-07 [Lesotho Times]

Investigative radio journalist shot dead 2023-05-18 [IFJ]

Lesotho ratifies three ILO Conventions 2023-03-18 [ILO]

More fired civil servants sue government 2023-02-25 [Lesotho Times]

South Africa NUMSA in solidarity with local workers 2023-02-15 [Africa Press]

Lesotho Garment Workers stand Up to Gender Violence at Work, Transform Unions, Communities For more info 2022-12-05 [Solidarity Center]

MMB employees down tools 2022-11-29 [Lesotho Times]

3000 factory workers sent packing 2022-11-08 [Lesotho Times]

Female taxi drivers speak out 2022-09-25 [Lesotho Times]

Polihali strike suspended 2022-08-03 [Lesotho Times]

[More News]

This month in labour history