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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 2 months ago

Abject failure: Canada’s would-be human rights watchdog leaves Bangladeshi garment workers languishing in poverty | Canadian Labour Congress

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Abject failure: Canada’s would-be human rights watchdog leaves Bangladeshi garment workers languishing in poverty | Canadian Labour Congress

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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 2 months ago
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In many Bangladeshi garment factories, the women and men who make clothes for export around the globe endure gruelling schedules—six days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day. But no matter how long and hard they work, their wages are so low, these workers cannot escape poverty.  The appalling working and living standards faced by Bangladeshi garment workers compelled the United Steelworkers union (USW) and the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) to file a joint complaint to the Office of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE) against retailer Mark’s and its parent company Canadian Tire.  The joint USW-CLC complaint...
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    Slavery never ended it was just rebranded.

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      It was outsourced.

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