As has been reported, in March 2020 the Dragon Sweater factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh closed down and laid off 6,000 workers, using the CoViD-19 pandemic as a pretext. ---- The owners decided to terminate the workers from one day to the other without severance pay, owed wages and bonus payments. -------- Now the workers have nothing and therefore depend on food supplies. ---- Most of them are organized with the Garment Workers' Trade Union Center (GWTUC) and took to the streets for months. ICL made a call for international solidarity together with the workers that saw many actions organised across the globe https://www.icl-cit.org/solidarity-with-dragon-group-workers-spreads-across-the-globe/.
A few weeks ago, the owners agreed to pay half of the amount owed to the workers. But in the end they didn't pay a penny.Around 300 of them still regularly take part in protests, others were forced to look for alternative incomes to get by. GWTUC aims to provide the 300 resisting workers with a daily meal as well as basic medical treatments.
For each worker 100 tk (taka) are calculated per day; 100 tk = 1€ (~ 1.17USD). To support all 300 workers around 9,000€ are needed each month.
Therefore the Working Group Asia of the International Confederation of Labour (ICL) - in coordination with the GWTUCand support of the Free Workers' Union (FAU) Hamburg and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Hamburg -has initiated this call for financial solidarity.
Support the emancipatory struggle of the garment workers in Dhaka by adding a bit to this campaign. You can donate through the following link:
It is scheduled to end on December 31st!
Solidarity is our weapon!
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