Garment impact unclear as H&M Foundation aids post-cyclone
H&M Foundation donates to the Red Cross and Red Crescent in the wake of Cyclone Mocha, which hit Myanmar and Bangladesh earlier this month.
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H&M Foundation donates to the Red Cross and Red Crescent in the wake of Cyclone Mocha, which hit Myanmar and Bangladesh earlier this month.
As a garment professional, she has worked both in Myanmar and across the border in neighboring Thailand. Myanmar’s trade union movement became legal in 2012. Currently, she said, union leaders and workers are torn between sympathy for factories that are losing business with the cancellations of orders from global buyers, worries about the spread of the coronavirus, and anger that manufacturers have also been using Covid-19 as an excuse to shut down, and open instead at a new locations, with fewer workers, blocking out trade unions. Sourcing Journal: Global brands believe that Myanmar off...