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Workers at a Levi’s supplier in Türkiyehave faced harassment, attacks, arrests, and dismissal for exercising their right to chose their own union representation. Despite committing to the union that it would pressure the factory management to rehire unlawfully terminated union members, four months since the start of the conflict, Levi’s is still producing clothes at the factory and has stopped communicating with the union and labour rights advocates supporting them.
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In the wake of the fundamentally flawed Bangladesh minimum wage protest of 2023 that led to the setting of another poverty wage, the government of Bangladesh cracked down hard on workers’ protests. Criminal charges, often filed by suppliers to major international brands, are now hanging over the heads of tens of thousands of workers. Yet, through recent industry statements, brands attempt to wash their hands of the responsibility for both the setting of yet another wage that leaves workers unable to put enough food on the table and of the legal threats now facing them.
The Clean Clothes Campaign is disappointed to learn that Salvadoran workers, producing apparel for Specialized, are still owed US$659,000 in unpaid wages and severance – a year and a half after losing their jobs, leaving them struggling to make ends meet.
98 trade union members received the overtime payment from Serbian socks supplier Valy that was withheld over the preceding 2.5 years.
