Workers take out the dirty linen of the garment industry

From: Kripa Basnyat <kbasnyat@pwescr.org>
Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:09 AM
Subject: (CR) Workers take out the dirty linen of the garment industry
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Workers take out the dirty linen of the garment industry

A 'people's tribunal' became a platform for workers in the garments sector to express their litany of woes, hoping that someone would listen and help change things. Imran Khan reports

Garment workers who toil day and night for international brands such as Nike, Adidas and Gap have testified before the panel on how these corporations maintain a regime of abuse, wherein they are forced to suffer gender discrimination, denial of payments and even sexual harassment. Photo: Rudra Rakshit Sharan

A national human rights tribunal on "living wages for garment workers", held in Bengaluru on 23-24 November, has brought out the dark and often abusive working conditions of garment workers across the country. Garment workers who toil day and night for international brands such as Nike, Adidas and Gap have testified before the panel on how these corporations maintain a regime of abuse, wherein they are forced to suffer gender discrimination, denial of payments and even sexual harassment. After two days of hearing more than 250 garment workers from across the country, the jury found the corporations guilty of "wage theft" and of not making "living wage a fundamental right" of garment workers in India.

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