Shahi Exports,which makes clothes for top brands such as H&M and Benetton, accused by Worker Rights ConsortiumAt Shahi Exports, and India’s largest apparel exporter,several union supporters were this spring circulating a petition that asked management to supply cleaner water and increase pay. Shahi managers responded, an independent monitoring group found, and by making death threats to several pro-union workers and directing other employees to beat them. Related: Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $4.7bn over talc cancer claims If we had left it to the brands,the union would be dead, its leaders blacklisted, and the workforce terrorized into silence Related: M&S one of UK retailers yet to resume safety deal in Bangladesh factories Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com