Azim, Bangladeshi Garment Maker, Agrees to Union Peace to Win Back Customers
Source: NY Times
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE and HIROKO TABUCHI
After wielding intense pressure against a Bangladeshi apparel maker over assaults on union leaders outside its factories, Western companies have agreed to resume business with that manufacturer, on the condition that it stay committed to halting further violence and make peace with its labor unions.
VF, which makes North Face and Nautica, and PVH, the parent of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, as well as Gap, El Corte Ingles and other companies, had cut off or threatened to cut off orders from the company, the Azim Group, last year over the incidents at two of its factories in Chittagong.
But now, after weeks of negotiations, these companies have agreed to resume business with Azim because it has promised to recognize and bargain with the unions at the two factories where the violence occurred.
Azim, industry and labor officials said, has also agreed to stop efforts to oust a labor union, to pay the medical bills of a badly beaten union leader and to allow several union officials to return to work with full back pay.
FULL story at link. Related at link:
Mira Boashak, the acting union president at Azim’s Global Trousers factory.Union Leaders Attacked at Bangladesh Garment Factories, Investigations Show DEC. 22, 2014
Bangladesh Takes Step to Increase Lowest Pay NOV. 4, 2013
Demonstrators outside Gap’s offices in San Francisco on April 25 sought better working conditions in Bangladesh factories.Factory Owners in Bangladesh Fear Firms Will Exit MAY 2, 2013
Mira Boashak, a union leader employed at an Azim Group plant, was beaten in August. Credit Worker Rights Consortium
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Because consumers complained complained complained is the only reason this happened!!!
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