Myanmar: Workers report labour violations in garment factories incl. union busting & physical violence; incl. co. response
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 31 Mär 2021
Standort: Myanmar
Unternehmen
Sung Bo Garment Factory - Supplier , Lidl - Former buyer , CMP Sport - BuyerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: 135
Arbeiter: ( 135 - Location unknown , Kleidung & Textilien , Gender not reported )Themen
Dismissal , Business-military collusion , Verweigerung von Vereinigungsfreiheit (siehe: Arbeit)Antwort
Antwort erbeten: Ja, von BHRRC
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Ergriffene Maßnahmen: Sung Bo Garment Factory allegedly supplies to Lidl and CMP Sport; Lidl provided a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre. In October 2023, Lidl reported it no longer has a relationship with the factory. CMP Sport did not respond.
Art der Quelle: NGO
Zusammenfassung
Date Reported: 31 Mär 2021
Standort: Myanmar
Unternehmen
Able Better Garment - Supplier , Cordura - Buyer , Lidl - Reported buyerBetroffen
Total individuals affected: 1
Arbeiter: ( 1 - Location unknown , Kleidung & Textilien , Gender not reported )Themen
Geschlechterdiskriminierung , Gewaltakte , Wage TheftAntwort
Antwort erbeten: Ja, von BHRRC
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Ergriffene Maßnahmen: Able Better Garment allegedly supplies to Lidl and Cordura; Lidl provided a response to a request for comment from the Resource Centre, stating that it did not source from the factory. Cordura did not respond.
Art der Quelle: NGO
"Myanmar trade unions fighting to protect workers’ rights during the military crackdown", 31 March 2021
Trade unions in Myanmar are fighting to ensure that the labour rights of the hundreds of thousands of workers who have been at the forefront of the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) are protected. And they are urging the international brands who purchase goods from supplier factories in Myanmar to do the same.
Some of those brands are signatories to the Freedom of Association (FOA) guidelines for their operations in Myanmar, which are part of the ACT (Action, Collaboration, Transformation on living wages)...
The Industrial Workers’ Federation of Myanmar (IWFM)...is putting pressure on...Lidl, an ACT member, to take responsibility for the union busting at Sung Bo... The factory dismissed 135 workers on 21 February after they left work to participate in the CDM.
Sung Bo initially agreed to reinstate only 65 of the workers, none of whom were union members. IWFM supported the workers through one month of negotiations, and the dismissed workers eventually accepted compensation in lieu of reinstatement, in an amount totalling US$19,407...
The union is also following another case at a Lidl supplier factory in the Myaungtagar industrial zone...Able Better garment factory produces Livergy brand products sold in Lidl stores...
On 19 February, a worker employed as a Chinese translator was beaten by Able Better managers after negotiations had taken place over the payment of wage arrears. The workers leading the negotiations filed a complaint with the local police station, but the case has been not satisfactorily resolved. This was also not the first time these same managers had beaten workers at the factory, and IWFM wants Lidl to intervene...