World Day for Decent Work

Recession Ethics - How will the current crisis effect garment and retail workers?

country Ireland
City where the action takes place: Belfast
Date of the action: 8th of October
Level of the action: International
Name of the organisation: Irish Congress of Trade Unions
Contact person: Stellan Hermansson - stellan.hermansson@ictu.ie

Public Meeting:

Recession Ethics - How will the current economic crisis effect garment workers in the global south and retail workers here?

At 7 p.m. on the 8th of October in UNISON Galway House 165 York Street BELFAST

Speakers; Silvana Cappuccio; “The extreme exploitation of garment workers in the global south” Silvana of the International Textile Garment and Leather Workers Federation (ITGLWF), has traveled to 60 countries in the global south on behalf of ITGLWF and met thousands of garment workers and their unions

Tara Scott and Stacey Doley “Our experiences as sweatshop workers” Tara and Stacey are known from the BBC programme “Blood, Sweat and T-shirts” where they experienced a “short time” as workers in the Indian sweat shops.

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