Myanmar: Workers at Myanmar Knitting garment factory reported intimidation and gender discrimination
Resumo
Data informada: 6 Jul 2023
Localização: Myanmar
Empresas
Myanmar Knitting Factory - Supplier , Marks & Spencer - Former buyer , Lidl - Former buyer , Primark (part of Associated British Foods) - Former buyerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: Número desconhecido
Trabalhadores: ( Número desconhecido - Localização desconhecida , Roupa e Material Têxtil , Gender not reported )Temas
Assédio (exceto sexual)Resposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por BHRRC
História contendo resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: Myanmar Knitting is allegedly supplying or has supplied to Primark, Marks & Spencer and Lidl; all companies provided a response to a request from the Resource Centre. Primark informed the Resource Centre that its final handover of products from this factory was in August 2022, and Marks & Spencer informed the Resource Centre that its last orders from Myanmar took place in April 2023. Lidl stated it had terminated business with the factory in 2021.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
Resumo
Data informada: 6 Jul 2023
Localização: Myanmar
Empresas
Myanmar Knitting Factory - Supplier , Marks & Spencer - Former buyer , Lidl - Former buyer , Primark (part of Associated British Foods) - Former buyerAfetados
Total de pessoas afetadas: 4969
Trabalhadores: ( 4969 - Localização desconhecida , Roupa e Material Têxtil , Gender not reported )Temas
Espancamento e ViolênciaResposta
Resposta solicitada: Sim, por BHRRC
História contendo resposta (Saiba mais)
Medidas tomadas: Myanmar Knitting is allegedly supplying or has supplied to Primark, Marks & Spencer and Lidl; all companies provided a response to a request from the Resource Centre. Primark informed the Resource Centre that its final handover of products from this factory was in August 2022, and Marks & Spencer informed the Resource Centre that its last orders from Myanmar took place in April 2023. Lidl stated it had terminated business with the factory in 2021.
Tipo de fonte: News outlet
"Union bursting and labor violations at the Myanmar Knitting garment factory"
... The factory is owned by Hong Kong citizens and employs over two thousand (estimated) and is known to manufacture M & S brand.
"The Chinese supervisor slapped an employee because he didn't understand what he was saying. He didn't call an interpreter... There is no rule, the dining tables are dirty, and the bread and curry left on the dining table are always picked up by crows."
"There are Chinese people who discriminate against LGBT people, threaten to fire them, and make fun of them," said an employee at the factory...
"Union leaders and representatives at the factory have not yet returned to work... I believe that only when they return to the workplace will there be justice and fairness in the workplace," said an employee of the factory.