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Garment Workers Who Lost Jobs in Pandemic Still Wait for Severance Pay
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Garment makers unite to demand better terms from retailers
By Victoria Waldersee and Ruma Paul / Reuters, DHAKA and LISBON
Garment makers in nine countries spanning Asia, the Middle East and North Africa have banded together to demand better contract terms from global clothing retailers, according to a draft document.
The suppliers hope their united front will prevent retailers from playing them off against each other in search of more lenient terms after widespread cancelations and payment delays at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Global retailers including Arcadia, Gap, Kohl’s and Primark canceled or paused orders with garment-making factories in Bangladesh worth almost US$3.7 billion in March and April last year, the results of a local survey of factories showed.
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Western companies are being forced to choose between supporting human rights and profits from China, caught up in a battle the U.S. and its allies are waging with Beijing over its persecution of Uyghur Muslims.
As China comes under scrutiny ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, human rights activists are urging companies to take a stand over the repression of Uyghurs, which the U.S. this week formally declared was “genocide.”
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