Workers strike over worsening working conditionsStriking workers employed by a labour broker at Hendler and Hart are not young. Many are women and the majority have been working at the factory for more than six years, some even 15 years.

Accelerated artisan training Can it alleviate the shortage of artisans asks Jenny Grice. In 2004, Henk Duys outgoing Seifsa president said: "Our artisan workforce is on average over 50 years old and thinking of retirement. We have lost our experience