Thailand: Brilliant Alliance garment workers file complaint after being charged for ‘illegal’ protest demanding compensation for factory closure
"Garment workers fight for their right to survival, as police slap them with charges", 30 November 2021
The Triumph International Worker’s Union led employees from Brilliant Alliance Thai Global to file a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission at the Government Complex in Bangkok...
This move came after Loeng Police Station charged six labour activists...for allegedly holding an illegal protest outside the Government House in Dusit district...
The protesters were demanding that the government and Labour Ministry secure a 242-million baht compensation for the 1,388 employees that had been laid off with little or no severance pay by Brilliant Alliance Thai Global...
The Textile Industrial Labour Union said the police charges violated the workers’ rights, especially since they were suffering from a loss of income and had nothing to fall back on...
The union said they had submitted a letter to the government many times, but no progress has been made...